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Old sighting raises hopes in Cheryl Grimmer cold case
BY MICHELLE HOCTOR
17/08/2009 9:15:00 AM
After nearly 40 years, a vital clue may have emerged in the case of missing Fairy Meadow youngster Cheryl Grimmer.
Wollongong detectives are investigating the sighting of a child matching the three-year-old's description, six months after she disappeared from Fairy Meadow beach on January 12, 1970.
If the claim proves correct, it would mean Cheryl might still be alive.
Cheryl disappeared after attending the men's amenities shed with her brothers Ricky and Stephen, following a day at the beach.
After the story of Cheryl's disappearance was recounted in the Mercury on August 1, the newspaper was contacted by a 79-year-old Windang man who was adamant he saw Cheryl on Windang Beach in the winter of 1970.
The man, who asked not to be named, said the sighting had haunted him for 39 years.
''I tried twice to tell police. The second time I was told the case was too old and to just forget it,'' he said.
The man said he was with his four-year-old daughter on the beach in June or July of 1970 when a little blonde girl approached them.
''A cold westerly wind was blowing and this little girl came from nowhere. She was a blonde girl with a fringe, exactly the same as what was in the paper. (more...)
Old sighting raises hopes in Cheryl Grimmer cold case
BY MICHELLE HOCTOR
17/08/2009 9:15:00 AM
After nearly 40 years, a vital clue may have emerged in the case of missing Fairy Meadow youngster Cheryl Grimmer.
Wollongong detectives are investigating the sighting of a child matching the three-year-old's description, six months after she disappeared from Fairy Meadow beach on January 12, 1970.
If the claim proves correct, it would mean Cheryl might still be alive.
Cheryl disappeared after attending the men's amenities shed with her brothers Ricky and Stephen, following a day at the beach.
After the story of Cheryl's disappearance was recounted in the Mercury on August 1, the newspaper was contacted by a 79-year-old Windang man who was adamant he saw Cheryl on Windang Beach in the winter of 1970.
The man, who asked not to be named, said the sighting had haunted him for 39 years.
''I tried twice to tell police. The second time I was told the case was too old and to just forget it,'' he said.
The man said he was with his four-year-old daughter on the beach in June or July of 1970 when a little blonde girl approached them.
''A cold westerly wind was blowing and this little girl came from nowhere. She was a blonde girl with a fringe, exactly the same as what was in the paper. (more...)
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