Overview

• NSW Police searched bushland in Balgownie after a public tip and a volunteer cadaver-dog team identified an area of interest.
• Specialist officers and a police cadaver dog examined the site, photographed bones, and confirmed they were animal before closing the search.
• This was the first police search of the location described in a 1971 confession by a then-minor known as “Mercury,” which was later ruled inadmissible.
• The Unsolved Homicide Unit continues to investigate Cheryl Grimmer’s 1970 abduction, with a $1 million reward still on offer via Crime Stoppers.
• Cheryl’s brother Ricki Nash kept vigil at the site as volunteers criticized the lack of family liaison, planned independent soil testing, and the family pressed for scrutiny of the case.