A thought occurred to me in regard to Ron Chapman's sighting:
"Detective Beacroft said further investigations revealed that on the same morning, a mother and her two children were visiting a resident across the road and one of the children, a boy, had a Spider-Man suit.
However. Detective Beacroft said the child Mr Chapman saw in the back seat of the car was not the child visiting the street.
“From the information provided by that child’s mother … it was not that child Mr Chapman saw,” she said."
Man saw child in car wearing Spider-Man suit, Tyrrell inquest hears
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- -RC saw a younger blonde woman with hair in a bun driving crazily around the corner and down his road with a toddler-sized Spiderman standing unprotected in the back seat, and another vehicle driving also erratically which may have been following crazy-car#1, or not.
- -RC heard that by whatever means, within a few hours or more, a child dressed as Spiderman from a nearby street was missing and police were asking anyone to come forward with any info, but yet he did not.
- -We also hear that on RC's same street, on that very same day, yet another Spiderman was visiting one of the street's residents across the road from RC. Media is told however, that this Spiderman could not have been the same one seen by RC.
- -RC apparently tells piles of people about his sighting, and people were advising him to go to police with his information, but yet he did not, and neither did anyone he had told. Months later, in 2015, RC finally went to some kind of function taking place nearby, where he hoped to find an officer known to him, to whom he could relay his story; instead he found this officer's relative, and so he instead relayed his story to that person, hoping for his information to be passed on to the officer. He never heard any word back from police. He says that he'd been expecting police to come and seek him out, saying he'd heard on the news that police would be door-knocking every resident within 1KM of 48 Benaroon - but that never happened. (Note that it had been also said that RC live 1.6KM from 48B?)
- -We are told that RC is an upstanding citizen with no reason to lie, etc.
- -We also find out that RC has made a report in the past about a crime, so why not this time? Nobody can come to terms with why RC wouldn't have done his civic duty and reported directly to police what he'd seen.
- -What IF RC had quickly discovered that his neighbour had had a young Spiderman visiting, and realized, 'oh dear, it must have been the neighbour's visitor that I saw, and I don't want want to rat them out for driving infractions nor acting irresponsibly by not belting the child into a carseat or a seatbelt at least, afterall, that would make bad neighbours if he were to report them'. Perhaps it was a grandson Spiderman of the neighbour and the neighbour's own daughter driving the vehicle. Perhaps after finding out about the neighbour's Spiderman, he wasn't *certain* which Spiderman he'd seen that day, so he just left it. Afterall, in his neck of the woods, this type of abduction stuff just doesn't happen.
- -Police finally catch up with this information through the grapevine and seek RC out themselves to question him on it, months later; RC by this time, perhaps knows more particulars about this neighbour and their visiting Spiderman, so when he relayed the info to police, he made sure to make the details NOT fit the neighbour's visitors for reasons stated above. A statement was not apparently taken until sometime in 2016.
- -Perhaps because RC *may* be trying to protect his neighbour, the whole truth did not come out, and police couldn't get anywhere with the information as given, except there was enough to say 'it was not the neighbour's Spiderman visitor who was seen'; no info was given however, to explain why this other Spiderman was ruled out.
- -Perhaps RC is 100% certain that he saw Spiderman that day, but he can't say for sure which one of the two it was. Maybe it *was* the neighbour's Spiderman. Maybe not.
- -Police are left with a big nothingburger.
"Detective Beacroft said further investigations revealed that on the same morning, a mother and her two children were visiting a resident across the road and one of the children, a boy, had a Spider-Man suit.
However. Detective Beacroft said the child Mr Chapman saw in the back seat of the car was not the child visiting the street.
“From the information provided by that child’s mother … it was not that child Mr Chapman saw,” she said."
Man saw child in car wearing Spider-Man suit, Tyrrell inquest hears
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