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[Music] crime [Music] [Music] pleas yeah hi my son is missing he's three and a half okay um sorry your
address C room Drive Kendall okay Ben room Drive in Kendall yes all right I'm just going to bring that up on my map I
wa be a moment thank you how long has he been missing I well I think well we've been looking him for
him now for about 15 or 20 minutes but okay I thought it could be five it could be longer because he was just playing
around here we heard him and then we heard nothing okay so what the nearest cross street say endale pris is that
right so what is it Ellendale pris I don't know my this is my mom's house um hang on there's another lady out helping
us look for him I'll see if I can find her but it's benoon b n a r yeah I can see I can see where you are I'm just
want yeah so it it's benoon Drive in Kendall and I just got I've got your nearest pro street as being Ellendale
presentes it could be I don't know okay so he's been missing since about 10:30 yeah I'd say so okay can you describe
him to me how tall obviously not very tall he he'd be about two and a half F he's wearing a Spider-Man
outfit yeah what kindor hair has he got he's got um dark Sandy colored hair it's
short and he's got really big brownie green colored eyes okay what see you get any shoes on do
you know any any other distinguishing um um he has oh he's got a freckle on the top of his head when
you C the hair on the left hand side yeah you'll see a freckle on the top of his head okay all
right do you know where he might have gone um where we actually live well my property near estate Forest okay and
there're on huge blocks we've walked up and down benun drive and we can't find him okay what's his name
William what's William's surname uh TR t y r e l okay has he been known to sort of go anywhere no this is the first
time character there wasn't anyone um suspicious in the area any Vehicles no no no no we're not don't know not that
I'm aware of we're just I was out there talking with mom and my other daughter so okay and we heard him roaring around
the garden and then I thought I I haven't heard him I better go check on him and okay find him we'll send police
to see you in a room driving Kendall also get that um a message broadcaster to all the Cs keep a look out for him as
well okay thanks thanks bye bye bye [Music] [Music] today's case takes us in the flying
garage ship to a foreign land land an unfamiliar territory and we will do our very best to try to fit in while we are
here this is a horrific story of a little boy who was reported missing in a very very odd story at that I actually
thought of that documentary out there called Missing 411 when first reading about this case that's a documentary
about a couple of different stories of children who have gone missing and seemingly just Vanishing Into Thin Air
so this is one of those types of cases this week's case takes place in Australia and at the center of this case
is William Terrell born June 26 20111 now William disappeared when he was just 3 years old William Terell was
still a baby when he arrived at the home of his new foster parents reports out there suggest that this was to be a
permanent Arrangement the baby boy had been removed from his biological parents both of whom had encountered problems
with police his biological father had spent most of William's short life incarcerated William did have supervised
visits with his biological parents after being placed in foster care however these visits were infrequent and William
identified his foster family as his parents and was known to publicly use their surname
so one tricky thing here in this case Captain is that the the name of the foster parents has not been disclosed to
the public so just to be clear William's last name as reported on TV and in the papers is T this is the surname of his
biological mother and not that of his foster parents also before we move on too far we should mention that while
Williams biological parents had run-ins with the law there is no indication that
they were ever violent to the little boy Carly Tio is Williams biological mother
and the father uh is her estranged partner Brandon Collins who is also known as bonesy he has been described as a career
Criminal by the media but a relative said I wouldn't say he's made much of a career out of it now don't quote me on
this well the thing is so he's not only is he a criminal but he's a loser criminal I I think you know I to be
completely honest I don't know 100% of the details of this man's run-ins with the police and and you know being behind
bars he has been in jail multiple times when the media States career criminal I think of somebody that's that's a
criminal to to survive to kind of make money and to um you know get things and and and get by in life it appears to me
from what I've been able to dig up that most of his run-ins with the law stem from alcohol and drug problems that he
has which right you know that nobody makes a career out of being an alcoholic and a drug addict some people do well
they don't make any money at it at it was what I'm getting at and unless maybe he was a dealer but I couldn't find
anything to suggest that it appears to me that he's quite the drug addict and he's got some that he's a pretty violent
individual at times um and it appears that there had been several uh domes violence charges on this guy as well so
for some reason they take this boy away from his parents and give him to a foster family the boy goes missing but
we're not allowed to know anything about the foster parents is there a reason why
we're not allowed to know anything well I don't fully understand this and I think it has something to do with
Australian law or um law of that area so these these foster parents have when William went missing they have more than
one foster kid in their care MH and I I believe that the reason why they cannot disclose their name is has something to
do with that foster care situation that either they're protected by certain laws
or that because they're trying to gain full custody of this other child that they have in their care right um that
their name cannot be disclosed for that purpose and this is the way that the way that I
view this it seems a little weird because at the early get-go of this case a lot of people were very suspicious of
the foster parents because their name wasn't revealed right the way that I understand it is the courts will not
them will not allow them to reveal their name I could have that wrong but there are several things to suggest that
judges have prevented that from happening in the media basically what you're assuming I guess is that that the
foster parents they would be fine with using their names and their identity but the courts are stopping them from doing
so that is my best guess um and to further convolute this whole situation I believe that the other child that is
still in their care right is very likely William's older sister so um there are several reports
out there that state that William was about 8 to9 months old when he went out of the home and into foster care there
is one report out there that states that William was 11 months old uh this might
be the most accurate I don't know I only say that because this article is comprised of several things but the
primary factor of that article is an interview with Williams biological grandmother so that would be Williams
biological father's it would be his mother uh in that article now I had to do some reading between the lines here
because all articles on this are very vague so keep in mind I am stating what I believe to be the case I could be
wrong but it sounds like the parents had some kind of not only drug issues but domestic violence charges against each
other um possibly against one another and uh maybe they had been forbidden to be in each other's company all right so
they get hopped up on drugs and they like to hit each other or yeah or yeah there's some kind of squabble or
fight that that has occurred on more than one occasion now the other thing though the reason why I think that
there's a bit of a gap between the time that William goes into foster care is that we have the grandmother the
biological grandmother that states that they were told they were going to lose William and it sounds to me like they
had already lost their daughter at this time I'm unclear if the daughter belongs
to both of of these parents parents right but what has happened here is the grandmother has stated that the the kids
and when I say kids I mean these two young uh people that have had these children they kind of went on the run
with their son William they they took off and tried to avoid the law and tried to avoid losing their son when they were
spotted somewhere they were they were arrested and the child was then taken from them so that's why I think that
there is a bit of a disc reany of when they lost their child my guess is that they were supposed to lose William at
the 8 or Emon Mark they went on the Run they were on the run for six weeks or so
and the law caught up to them yeah so whenever they took custody of William William is going to go to a wealthy
family from Sydney's Northshore yeah and he was being raised by this family at the time of his
disappearance the Foster family they were even in the process of renovating their house to create their forever
family home to include William in a new room for William uh the foster parents have regularly spoken out in media
interviews but I I guess I should I'm going to kind of Backtrack on something I said already um there are reports out
there that state that they cannot that their identity cannot be disclosed there are also reports out there that state
that they have requested that they not be identified so just to be clear that there there are arguments on both sides
of that fence so now that we have a little bit of background Captain let's get into the details of Williams
disappearance and some of the events leading up to and some of the events of that day now real quick a description of
William uh this Source says quote the nsw that's the New South Wales police they believe that William was abducted
and they strongly believe that he may still be alive so I want everybody to pay close attention to this so so the
source is a website that maybe uh could use an update uh but regardless there is
a website out there called wees will.org and on that website you can donate there
you can get involved um well maybe you could donate some of your computer skills and update some of their
information update the website for um but to include a description of William we pulled this straight from the Wares
will.org website so describing what William looks like William is a Caucasian appearance William was above
average height for his age not overly tall but taller than most boys his age when he disappeared the site also says
that William walks with a Swagger he has hazel eyes brown straight hair which grows very quickly his hair is thicker
on the top of his head and finer towards the base of his head near his neck William has one rather large dark
Freckle on the left hand side that is near the top of his head about 5 cm back from his hairline he also has asthma
which is worse in the cold months so let's get to The Disappearance on Thursday September 11 11th
2014 William Tio is just 3 years old he has picked up along with his sister from
daycare I've read a few accounts of this day that state it was a surprise that the children were taken out of school as
part of a very impromptu out of town trip most sources do not say that that or at least do not go into detail of him
being picked up MH so from my understanding Captain the plan was to go out of town that weekend for a weekend
trip to Nana's house to the the Foster grandmother's home right the plan was to travel on Friday for some reason the
foster parents they got done with work early and they decided to surprise not only the children who loved going to
Nana's house but also surprise nana I guess she had been I don't know if it was a chronic illness or she had been
sick or there had been something going on in her life where the foster parents wanted to cheer her up by bringing the
children to her sooner so it was a bit of a surprise take the kids out of daycare on Thursday let's go ahead and
make the 4-Hour trip to Nana's house on that Thursday instead of Friday right this is the Foster mom's mom so they
traveled about 4 hours from Sydney to visit Williams foster grandmother in a place called Kendall now this sounds
like maybe a long weekend trip like I had said so they're going to go out to Kendall this is in New South Wales which
I've never heard of Kendall but checking it out this this looks like a very cool
place um the grandmother's house is on benaroon drive so there are a couple of streets there with some houses
it's a little neighborhood kind of tucked away this is a wooded area right by the Kendall Forest which is a large
uh when you Google Map the street there you you will see that the forest practically surrounds the grandmother's
neighborhood is it like a park or is it just natural it could be some kind of natur national forest um but it is a
heavily wooded area and like I said this is a small neighborhood that is surrounded by forc now according to the
2011 census the population of Kendall is just 833 people and at the time of The Disappearance or
abduction uh it was reported that this town had less than 1500 people in it so Kendall is a a small Country Town yeah
so the street on which she lives at the time of The Disappearance is benero drive now to get to benero drive
regardless of what direction you are traveling from you have to take Batar Creek Road and Batar Creek Road is sort
of a long sprawling country road so there is only one way in and out of this little neighborhood benoon drive has a
few more than a dozen houses located on benoon and there's a short street that comes off of benoon the name of that
street is Ellendale Crescent which only has probably less than 10 houses on it okay but this this could be important
this case so that's why I point out all these things and we will see why but the
important thing to picture here is both benoon drive and the attached Street of Ellendale are both deadend streets and
you can only get into this little neighborhood when traveling the roads when traveling the roads from that
Country Road Batar Creek right so the family of four they stay the night at Grandmom's house yeah so we have five
people in the house correct the next morning this is the day that the little boy goes missing so we want to go
through a detailed timeline right this is GNA be Friday yes so the day starts off like this sometime before 9:00 a.m.
just before breakfast MH uh the Foster mother opens a sliding glass door to the balcony to Bird Watch she will later say
that it is at this time when she notices two cars parked down the road at 9:00 a.m. William and his sister are riding
their bikes a car drives past the children this vehicle according to police is described as a dark green or grayish
color sedan mhm this car drove past 48 benero Drive that's where they were staying as William was riding his bike
on the driveway the car drove into the quiet culdesac did a uturn in a neighbor's driveway and then drove out
of the street around this same time the there is a woman named Mrs Wilson she tells
police that she heard two children playing in a neighboring yard before she left to run errands in the township she
is leaving to go shopping she hears two kids playing next door she does not see any kids or any parked
cars at 9:15 a.m. the Foster father takes off to make what is reported as either a phone call or a Skype
conference call and he has to do this due to poor internet remember we said this is kind
of a country area he's going to have to drive into town to make this phone call or this Skype call the town that he he
says he went to is about 11 minutes away by car later police confirmed that he was where he said he was right at 9:45
a.m. the Foster mother takes a photo of William sitting on the deck the time and
date are conf confirmed later by police now this says become a famous photo photo he's um wearing a Spider-Man
outfit yeah and this is incredibly like a very weird coincidence I think here because you know often with these
children when they go missing one of the first things that police and detectives
are going to try to to get from the parents is going to be give us your most recent photograph of your child give us
your most updated photograph of this little boy or little girl yeah and here we have a situation where maybe just
minutes before the kid goes missing the mother the stepmother sorry I'm going to
Foster mother right she takes three pictures of William at that time at 9:45 a.m. and one like you said Captain is
the now famous photo of William tiell where he you can see him playing on the deck he's wearing a Spider-Man outfit
you know shirt and pants yeah it's probably like Spider-Man PJs yeah and you can it's it's it's just very strange
it's a very weird coincidence I don't think it's that strange now I mean I think you're going to see that more and
more I mean there's there's always people that go missing and now with technology you're going to have snap you
know we've seen it with other cases where somebody snapchated themselves or somebody else snapchated somebody or
posted something on Instagram or Facebook and then they go missing you know just a little bit later I think
you're spot on because I I got to believe we are because of phones and technology we are all taking more
pictures now more than ever so William and his sister are playing outside they are running around hiding and laughing
you know they are just little kids so probably screaming and yelling as they are having fun they are playing games
that from about 10:00 a.m. to about 10:25 a.m. so the home has a large deck on the back of the house it's like a
like a balcony deck now it sounds like maybe the last game or activity that the kids were playing would be kind of like
hide and seek little William was running around to the back of the house and hiding under the deck area from his
sister at approximately 1015 a.m. this is the last time that the Foster mother says that she physically saw William
okay one of the investigators words are quote our starting point is approximately a 5minute window when
young William walked around the side of the house into the backyard and disappeared from sight while his mother
and grandmother went inside for a cup of tea now moving on at 10:30 a.m. the Foster mother notices that she does not
see William nor does she hear him anymore remember we said that they were screaming yelling roaring laughing yeah
I think she made claims that he was he constantly was doing this like Roar like he was a lion or a tiger this is when
she decides to go looking for him and the grandmother at this time does not know where William is either then the
neighbor this is anarie sharpley she spots the mother and the grandmother searching for the boy so she decides to
join the search at around 10:36 is let's say another neighbor reported that his wife had left the
house around this time and he stated that his wife didn't see anything unusual at this time at 10:50 a.m. the
foster dad arrives home and in all honesty this is a bit of a guess here but I'll show you how I got to this 1050
Mark so nothing complicated here but there are two things that point that this is a pretty accurate time one the
foster mom says that the boy was missing for about 15 to 20 minutes before her husband had returned to the home and two
the husband says that he had returned approximately 5 minutes before they called emergency services and we know
that that call came in at 1056 a.m. so at 10:56 a.m. the Foster mother phones trip 0 emergency services with the
neighbor and Marie Shipley when the Foster mother is asked how long had he been missing she answers we have been
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[Music] today all right we're back cheers mates cheers Captain so where we left off we
had the Emergency Services called the triple zero emergency service is called we have a little boy William T who is 3
years old and he is missing yeah which is their triple Zer is the same as our 911 the call goes in at 10:56 a.m. the
police arrive on scene at at 1106 a.m. and that's I actually find that to be a rather quick response uh given the area
given the the the size of the area um and we've heard the 91 one call it's not a short call so the call comes in at
10:56 10 minutes later police are on the scene um several officers state that when they arrived the Father the Foster
father was inside the home and was visibly upset to the officers now at 11:12 a.m. the
K9 unit or the dog unit is dispatched to the home to help in the search at 11:44
a.m. State Emergency Services are informed of the situation so what are State emergency
services this is more like we're going to bring in firefighters um other people that are
trained in search and rescue we're going to start bringing in a large group of people to look for this little boy at
12:52 p.m. the police helicopter takes to the sky and I'm guessing that this helicopter was not part of Kendall's you
know I don't know that Kendall would have a helicopter maybe they did maybe they
borrowed it from a neighboring jurisdiction right at one p.m. just a little more than 2 and 1 half hours
after 3-year-old William Terell was last seen by his foster mother 100 people had
joined in and were desperately searching for the little boy so as far as the early investigation and the search for
the little boy goes hundreds of police members of the the state Emergency Services rural fire service and members
of the community searched day and night for William specialist police including the sex crime
Squad they formed a task force uh it was practically immediately formed as the day went on they formed this task force
motorcycles and helicopters were brought in to join in the search 200 volunteers
searched overnight hundreds of people combed rugged terrain around the home and police divers searched waterways and
dams the police searched every house in the in the area that had surrounds benero Drive several times the police
detection dogs were brought in and they managed to detect Williams scent but only within the boundaries of the
backyard so let's go into that in a little more detail shall we so let's start with the houses being searched
yeah so police searched each of the 21 houses that surrounds benaroon Drive the street where William's grandmother lives
they searched the houses not once not twice but three and four times thri yes each time using different Personnel to
make sure that fresh a fresh set of eyes looked at every possible angle every possible clue seems like all the
neighbors were willing to help and hey you want to search my house come on in yeah there was no Kickback multiple
searches roof spaces subfloor spaces wall cavities cupboards sheds all were searched and searched again with
methodical determination just in case someone was keeping the little boy hidden even the grandmother's house was
searched top to bottom but there was nothing so if he was abducted if William was abducted he was not being held in
the neighborhood from which he was taken mhm so they didn't find a scrap of clothing they didn't find a footprint in
the dirt they didn't find tire marks now on to the police dogs as we said they were brought in and they managed to find
William sent but only within the boundaries of the backyard okay well this is not good
right um and I'll tell you why we we talked about this when we covered Mara Murray uh with the with the dogs
tracking the scent scent dogs yeah so it appears that Williams Foster grandmother's home is kind of on a
corner this make this making portions of both the front and back of the house visible from the streets mhm now the
yard has quite a few trees these are the whole neighborhood is is well manicured
Lawns and Landscapes but it's very possible that someone could have pulled up right to the yard call the boy over
over and either snatch him up there or trick him into their vehicle the troubling thing here is this would leave
the evidence that they found at the scene where they find they're able to track the boy on his grandmother's
property but nowhere else making so do they have like a scent that you know cuz he was playing on the porch or the or
the deck whatever you want to call it it sounds to me like he was you're that he
was playing up close to the home right because if if you look at the way that the home the layout of it there appears
to be like a deck or a sitting area that is kind of the best way to describe it is on the side of the home that does not
face the street so the front of the house the other side of the house and the back of the house are all pretty
visible from these two streets which is all benaroon drive but it kind of like dead ends and then veers off to the
right into another dead end yeah and he's running around this backyard so you're going to have some sent of them
there but do we have like a path from that deck or from the house to a road inconclusive okay all reports state that
the uh they were able to track his scent but only found the scent in the within the boundaries of the grandmother's
property right so we don't know where it stopped or right right and that's what I
mean I my I'm curious could somebody have pulled up right to the property line and coaxed the little boy into
their vehicle or just jumped out and grabbed him real quick right yeah and if if you pick him up in the
air you would assume that the scent would they would lose the set yeah and and from our experience Captain you know
this unfortunately most of the time when we see a situation like that if that is
in fact the case we don't know that because they've not been very detailed in their their report of this but if in
fact that we have a trail and then all of a sudden there is no more scent anymore uhhuh we've found that most of
the time that means that they were picked up or they got into a vehicle yeah so one minute we have William
running in the yard based off the scent dogs and then one minute he's gone and another Curious Thing here is that he's
supposedly playing with his older sister yeah but so is she just on the opposite
side of the house cuz I I couldn't find a statement from her anywhere yeah this is very troubling to me now when we say
older sister I we don't have a whole lot of detail of how old she is but when when I hear that they're taken out of
daycare to go I think she's like 32 I'm assuming she's probably you know like five maybe four or five right so
slightly older than William but yeah like you said we don't have any witness statement from her saying hey I saw this
happen or this person this weird person entered the yard um now I do want to point point out here this area this
Kendall area having never been there I'm going to make some guesses some inferences here it does not look like a
cheap place to live okay these are very nice homes this this neighborhood from the houses that I could see all appear
to be very nice homes wellmaintained and the lots are very big the yards are very
big now there are like I said in in the grandmother's yard as well as other yards surrounding it there are a lot of
trees and Landscaping and things like that going on so could he have been grabbed and there was an obstacle
between his sister and him of pine trees or something of that nature where she couldn't see what was going on or maybe
maybe whatever game they were playing just kind of fizzled out and she was doing her own thing and not really
paying attention to her little brother the other thing though too captain at no point do either the mother the
grandmother or or any of the neighbors say that they heard a vehicle speeding off or Tire squealing in a rush to get
out of the area you know grabbing the kid and then boom you know hitting the road how did that go again that was not
a very good I've been had have a bit of a head cold here yeah so you're bad at sound effects now um but well but why
look if you're going to commit a crime or you're going to abduct somebody the wouldn't the best way to do that
always to be even Keel and just like you know like you grab the kid you get in your car you drive at normal speed you
dri right you know you you try not to be you have your seat belt on you're not breaking any other laws that would get
you pulled over or draw attention to right because hypothetically somebody grabs a kid they put put them in the car
and they start driving 70 M down a road where there's only one way in and one way out and everybody that sees the car
goes oh I remember that car was going 80 M an hour so I but I am curious why do we not have a statement from her even if
the statement is and I'm not saying that hasn't come from her but what are the F
her parents saying that hey did she go inside for a minute was was he was William out playing by himself for 5 10
minutes right well the the the very troubling thing about this when you look this spot on the
map you could take a kid from this spot and you could be on that country road that we talked about in 2 minutes and
this would be without speeding away from the scene of of the abduction right and
I'm guessing once you hit that Country Road you could be gone and out of the area fairly quickly even with police
arriving on the scene within 10 minutes of the emergency call going out and you're right Captain the general story
that has always been told To Us by the foster parents is that the the two little kids were outside playing in the
yard it was a it was a nice day and the mother and grandmother went inside for to get a cup of tea that they estimate
that they were only gone 10 maybe 15 minutes but remember we said that the mother had opened up the balcony door
I'm also assuming that that might mean that other windows are probably open to the home at this time because she does
state that she could hear the children outside playing while her and her mother were inside the home so yeah and anybody
that's watched kids before knows I mean normally if you can hear them everything's fine yeah it's when you
know it's once you stop hearing them that normally something bad happened yeah yeah and so those are the only
accounts that we have to go off of um the crazy thing though you know this happens on a Friday morning so you would
think that there might not be a lot of potential eyewitnesses however I I don't think that's the case here from my
understanding that this kendle area there's a lot of retire corre retired people and it also sounds like there
were quite a bit of people home in this neighborhood during that time there were
even other kids that were outside reporting to have been playing at the time of this disappearance and remember
this they're not even supposed to be there on that Friday right they they probably would have still been traveling
to Kendall at that time mhm okay so back to the early investigation we mentioned
a strike force was uh formed very quickly this is called strike force Rosanne was established with specially
trained investigators from the State Crime command who were experienced in The Unexplained disappearance of young
children they supported the police other Emergency Services Workers and members of the public involved in the search now
after 5 days police said that they were unable to come up with any leads in The Disappearance of the little boy one very
important thing to note here though we talked about the Foster grandmother's house being searched yeah I would guess
that at this time that the authorities were going to be taking a very good look at the foster parents as well but I want
to point out here that at 4:30 p.m. on the day that William vanished according to William's biological grandmother
Williams biological parents were arrested on that day as well they were arrested for what just drugs um I I have
no statement other than the grandmother stating that at 4:30 p.m. on the day that William went missing the biological
parents were arrested maybe they were just were they arrested or were they just brought him for questioning well
well I I tell you what let's continue on our investigation timeline because I think that that might hijack the
conversation a little bit uhhuh did they bring in Kida dogs at all to the search
area yeah so there are multiple dog units that were brought in I'm assuming that that what would be the case um
however you got to keep in mind that especially in the early stages of the search they believe they're searching
for a for a living breathing human human being mhm um not a DAV keep in mind so much of the of the he went missing on
September 12th as you pointed out a Friday so much of of the next few days were spent searching the forest and
these searches were being conducted by hundreds of Searchers including the eight of dogs motorcycles helicopters
and so on the search areas included waterways and dams as we had mentioned also during this time the sex crime
Squad was interviewing people and speaking with locals the search expanded to 3 kilomet around the spot from where
he had disappeared from so a very expansive search and most of it is very rugged terrain if you check out the map
there police on the on the fifth day said that these searches of the forest in the waterways have provided
zero zero leads or Clues as to the whereabouts of William MH and we don't have any scent trail of him going from
the backyard into the forest anyways yeah right they did say that if by some chance the
boy was in the bush land we might that he might still be alive at this time now this is 5 days after he's gone missing a
source on that same day tells reporters that the police and the task force had also been talking to all sex offenders
in that region now nine days into the search how how many offenders do we have in that that region I mean we don't have
that many people in the popul well I I would imagine when they say region that that expands beyond the
boundaries of the town of Kendall right now nine days into the search the um the
search was largely scaled back nine days into it um the thought here is that emergency service workers believe that
if he were in the bush land that he would be presumed to have been dead by this time yeah um and again there was
still no evidence to suggest that that scenario was even possible at that point so when we say that the
search was largely scaled back that means that at this point we are just going to have law enforcement working on
the search for William what does that mean what we can what we can infer from that is that that means we are now
working off of tips received by the sent in by the public and we're also working
on leads of possible offenders uh talking to the sex offenders in the region would also point to that mm MH on
January 6th 2015 the commander denied reports that investigators were treating the case as a targeted
abduction now that same month on the 20th January 20th forensic teams searched the home of a Tradesman this is
William speding he goes by Bill speding so we'll call him that Bill speding had gave Williams foster grandmother a quote
to fix a washing machine at her home this was just 4 days before the child went missing yeah and it's not clear
what they took from his home but they did take some items from his home I'm I'm guessing they tested them and also
offered up his DNA as well and Bill speding was questioned at that time and as you mentioned up he offered up his
DNA so he was he was cooperative yeah at that time but uh there's been a lot of Publications people on social media
still throwing him under the bus well we will learn that bill has a questionable background involving
allegations with him and children and so that's going to keep him in the the spotlight yeah keep him in the spotlight
and in the target of the public on March 2nd 2015 police and homicide Squad units
began a new search uh this was for the body of William in the dense Bush land of Bonnie Hills off of the Pacific
Highway after receiving a tip from a member of the public this was an extensive search this was not an easy
area to search but they did it anyway nothing was found as a result of this tip on April 17 the same year New South
Wales police revealed that they were investigating reports of a possible pedophile ring operating in the area
that William had disappeared okay this this this could be a strong Theory and there is some evidence to suggest that
this suspected pedophile ring could could be a possibility could be the solution to to what happened to
William right so what we would later learn is that police clear William's family and any involvement in The
Disappearance and it sounds like they cleared them fairly early and then quickly they believed that the boy was
Abdu Ed by a possible opportun opportunistic stranger later which makes the most
sense because he doesn't live in that area I'm sure now he's three at the time they get they get William as you know
being his foster parents at let's say roughly age one so how many times did they visit there right you know so it's
just not likely that somebody would know that that William is going going to be at his grandma's house right and even
though this was a you know cuz a what a lot of people will point to is this was an unplanned trip and actually straight
from the foster mother's mouth are the words that this was a planned trip the UN what where people get confused is the
unplanned portion was we went early so like you had pointed out earlier that very likely they would not have been
there that at that time on that Friday no they would have waited till the school was out or the daycare was out
and then they would have left and the reason why I will not shoot down the possibility of an opportunistic stranger
abduction here is for one thing that we already pointed out we have other Witnesses other people that lived in the
neighborhood stating that they were not only were they home that day but they had children I don't know if they were
their children or their grandkids but there were other children that were out playing in this neighborhood on that
very day and what I mean by opportunistic stranger mhm it's forgive me for saying so but to put
it bluntly it's like going to the grocery store and picking out some produce right you if you know that
there's going to be a decent amount of children if that's what you are looking for you go to that area you Scout it out
and you you take what seems to be an easy target but this doesn't seem like the most
likely area because there's one way in and one way out you think that the perpetrator would know that oh yeah I I
absolutely believe that either either the perpetrator knew this if if he was in fact abducted that they knew that
there was one way in and one way out because they I believe if it was an opportunistic stranger that abducted
little William that the person pulled into the neighborhood probably Cru cruised the the small area and and
looked at the children that were outside playing at that time that that doesn't you know rule out the possibility that
it's sex ring either you know no not at all you know not at all now it was later
um you know like we said early in the investigation it appears we're later told that they they very quickly
believed that the the child was not abducted by his foster parents or his biological parents or that they had
anything do with his disappearance or demise right and we're told that very early on the police were quickly working
on the thought that in theory that he was abducted by an opportunistic stranger now later is when they start
examining the possibility that this quote opportunistic stranger may have had a connection with a pedophile ring
or you know so maybe he was abducted by more than one person mhm um but you also
have the the thought there too is procuring an individual or victim for this pedophile ring you know somebody
that maybe not be maybe is not fully involved in the pedophile ring but but taking the child and giving them to a
member of that pedophile ring is a possibility well they they sell them most of the time well that no that's
what I mean yeah procuring them for this so so there's if you have a stranger on
Stranger abduction not only is it hard to make the link between the abductor and the victim but then if you add a
middleman in there too that's going to make it even harder to trace this back to where William could be or where he's
being held now some some evidence to point to the possibility of this this pedophile ring is remember the old show
maybe it's maybe it's a current show I don't know but you know the show current affair which I've not seen in a
bazillion years so yeah yeah well it kind of like Entertainment Tonight kind of okay so it could be still around I'm
just unaware but the show current affair reported that about 20 registered sex offenders were living in the surrounding
area of Kendall 20 registered correct and and then we know that there's at least if there's 20 registered there's
going to be at least a few that aren't registered yeah yeah these are typically um crimes that go heavily unreported or
when they are reported there's little evidence to convict somebody of these because it it a lot of times it turns
into a he said she said situation where you only have the victim's word to go off of um and I know that in situations
here I I don't I'm not familiar with Australian law but in situations here that doesn't usually work well to get a
conviction now on June 11th 2015 newspaper Reports say that a Spider-Man toy was found in the work van
of what ABC News referred to as a person of interest in the William trell disappearance case this was the man that
we previously discussed Mr Bill speding however this this is the guy that gave him a quote on the washing machine yes M
um that his house was searched he offered up his DNA however the New South Wales police would not confirm the
discovery of this Spider-Man toy or comment on this story at all so where we have this reported we don't have police
confirmation then police later began investigating into the finding into finding the drivers of two cars that
were seen parked on the dead end road on the morning that William disappeared the
cars were described as a white station wagon and an older style gray sedan which were parked between two driveways
of the acre lot of land they were seen with their driver side windows down and they were unknown to the neighborhood
where the locals are all considered to be friends these cars were noticed by Williams mother and they have not been
seen in the area again again since The Disappearance the police regard these particular vehicles with much suspicion
as there seemed to be no logical reason why they would be parked on the street before Williams disappearance reportedly
at 9:00 a.m. a green or gray sedan car drove past the Terell home while William and his sister were riding bikes in the
driveway the car drove into the no through Road did a u-turn in the neighbor driveway way and drove out of
the street second secondly this is something completely different another and I don't have much of a description
on this vehicle here Captain but another quote four-wheel drive was cited driving
out of benaroon Drive about 10:30 a.m. this is approximately the time that William disappeared the same vehicle was
later seen speeding down another kle Street the police said that they had not known that they have known about these
cars since the investigation started since the day of his disappearance however as part of an investigative
strategy the information about these vehicles was not released to the public until September 7th 2015 when they
announced a public appeal for information about these two cars detective Gary jubilan said during the
The Plea for information quote we're looking at a Royal area and it was a deadend street
to attend out there there would have to be a reason yeah and on the same day which is roughly about a year after
William went missing law enforcement is going to release the tape of the triple zero call that Williams Foster mother
made of you know reporting William going missing M the triple Z again is what we
refer to in the states as a 911 call on September 3D 13th 2015 criminal profiler
Dr Sarah Yule from the police task force working with detectives to find William
revealed details about the person police suspect suspect may have abducted the toddler so not a full profile was
released but definitely some thoughts on the profile of the person responsible or
thoughts about this person uh and here they are Captain the good doctor states that if no one but the child's Foster
parents and grandmother knew about the visit then the kidnapper would have to have had another reason to be there
either visiting living or working in the area there was only a narrow window of opportunity to take the child from
outside the property quote it does seem that this was an opportunistic crime and
when somebody makes that kind of impulsive decision mistakes are made and it's those kind of mistakes that the
investigation is focusing on detective Gary jubilan added the kidnapping occurred on a Friday around 10:30 a.m.
it was broad daylight and whoever abducted him risked being seen from the balcony of Williams grandmother's home
as well as neighboring properties on September 26th 2015 police confirmed that they had
seized a white station wagon for forensic examination from a property north of Kendall the following year on
September 12th 2016 on the 2 Anniversary of Williams disappearance the New South
Wales government announces a $1 million reward for information on Williams whereabouts the police say that the
reward will usually be paid out as conditional on the arrest and conviction of the offender but the recovery of
William had been added as a condition on this reward it is the largest ever reward offered to
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This is one of the strangest missing person cases that we have looked into. It's strange because of the very short window of time in which little William goes missing. William was three years old when he was last seen. He was playing outside with his sister. According to reports William was only left unsupervised for about 15 minutes. Several strange vehicles were spotted near where William was playing. Was the little boy being watched? Did someone snatch him up and take him? Police are still working under the assumption that William is alive. This week we take a look at the details of William's disappearance. Beer of the Week - James Boag's Premium Lager Garage Grade - 3 out of 5 bottle caps

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Brief Summary

William Tyrell, 3, vanished in Kendall, Australia, prompting a massive search and investigation into possible abduction scenarios.

Key points

Missing Child Case. The case of William Terrell, a 3-year-old boy who vanished under mysterious circumstances.
The Mysterious Disappearance. Three-year-old William Terell goes missing while playing outside, prompting a massive search effort.
Search Efforts Intensify. Hundreds of volunteers and police join the search for William, utilizing helicopters and K9 units.
Search Efforts Intensify. The search for William expands to a 3-kilometer radius with no leads found.
Possible Pedophile Ring. Police investigate reports of a potential pedophile ring in the area.
Largest Reward Offered. A $1 million reward is announced for information on William's whereabouts.

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This is a horrific story of a little boy who was reported missing.

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