Contents

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface by Bruce Morcombe

Introduction

Chapter 1 Who Killed Kath? The murder of missing mum Kath Bergamin

Chapter 2 The Girl Who Would be Famous The street abduction of teenager Siriyakorn ‘Bung’ Siriboon

Chapter 3 French Resistance The bizarre vanishing act of Frenchman Antoine Herran

Chapter 4 Smile, Have a Nice Life The dead man’s calling card

Chapter 5 Last Words The case of the missing counsellor, Christine Redford

Chapter 6 Concrete Slippers The resurfacing of Silvan Dam Man

Chapter 7 Matching the Missing and the Dead A forensic odontologist’s story

Chapter 8 Epsom Road’s Lady of the Night The body in the backyard

Chapter 9 The Long White Cloud to the Final Frontier The disappearance of Kiwi traveller Jamie Herdman

Chapter 10 Three Strikes The story of Raechel Betts, the girl with the floral tattoo

Chapter 11 Be Prepared Boy scouts find bones in the bush

Chapter 12 A Mother’s Tears The country town abduction of teenager Jessica Small

Chapter 13 The Kinglake Coincidence The confusing case of the Kinglake bodies

Chapter 14 Digging Up the Truth The search for Terry Floyd

Chapter 15 Find My Family The quest to find out who loved Perth’s Mystery Man

Chapter 16 Babe in Arms The kidnapping of toddler Cheryl Grimmer

Chapter 17 The Mad, the Bad and the Hag The legend of the Beechworth Skeleton

Chapter 18 Laura, Look at the Moon Where is Laura Haworth?

Chapter 19 Two Alight, One Extinguished The disappearance and death of Daniel Morcombe

Chapter 20 Gone, but Not Forgotten The abduction and presumed murder of Linda Stilwell

Chapter 21 Who is Fred Marriott? Identifying a missing sailor

Chapter 22 Prelude to a Murder The mystery of the man in the mud

Chapter 23 Fix It If You Can Danny Walker, the man who wanted to come home

Chapter 24 The Sharp-dressed Man of Rotten Row A fifty-year-old mystery solved

Chapter 25 The Runaway A brother’s forty-year crusade to find his missing sister

Picture Section

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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