Overview
- Major Crime detectives began scouring a defined site at a Burnda Road property west of Mount Gambier on Thursday.
- STAR Group officers, State Emergency Service volunteers and local police are assisting in the coordinated operation.
- The search area spans about one square kilometre and is expected to run for two days.
- Bernie was 34 when last seen at her Mount Gambier home on January 23, 1988, and detectives now believe she was murdered.
- Police say Bernie's family supports the renewed effort and urge anyone in the South-East with information to contact Crime Stoppers.