Overview
- Brother Ricki Nash said the man known as Mercury has until midnight Wednesday to explain his confession or NSW MLC Jeremy Buckingham will use parliamentary privilege to identify him and read the statement into the record.
- Volunteer searchers reported a cadaver-dog alert at an area of interest and collected soil for independent testing in the US and UK after police said only animal bones were found at the site.
- The family distributed a dossier alleging decades of investigative failures, including early publicity of a ransom note days after the abduction, and called for a public inquiry into the case handling.
- NSW Police said they continue to pursue every line of inquiry and confirmed a A$1 million reward remains available for information about Cheryl Grimmer’s disappearance.
- A 2011 inquest concluded Cheryl was very likely dead, and a 2017 murder charge based on a 1971 statement collapsed in 2019 when the court ruled the teen’s confession inadmissible.