The Lost and the Found

VICTIM ONE: A Caucasian male aged 24-46



VICTIM TWO: A Caucasian male aged 24-40


According to news reports, there is a possibility of a third victim who could possibly be a female however this has not been confirmed.

http://www.australianmissingpersonsregister.com/Remains.htm

Jawbone at Kurnell desal site

Article from: Description: Description: The Daily Telegraph
By Kara Lawrence December 12, 2007 12:40pm

A JAWBONE believed to be human has been discovered at the Kurnell desalination plant work site this morning.

Construction workers noticed the bone, which had been dredged up from the sand by recent storms at about 11am today.

Police have been contacted about the bones, which follows the unearthing of several other human bones at the site last month.

Bones previously found include a human shin bone as well as foot bones in a sock and a pelvis. Those bones have been sent overseas for carbon testing to New Zealand and to the US for DNA analysis, and are believed to be less than 50 years old.

It is believed that the bones previously discovered belonged to two people, one from a man and the other is suspected to be from a woman.

It is unknown if the jawbone discovered today came from either of those two bodies.

More human remains discovered - Kurnell

2007-12-12 15:02:27 - NSW Police Media Unit

A human jawbone has been discovered at a Kurnell construction site today.

Police from Miranda Local Area Command were called to the site on St Josephs Road after construction workers discovered the jawbone, believed to be human, at 11am.

A crime scene has been established and the exhibit taken away for forensic examination.

On Tuesday 2 October 2007, a tibia bone was located in sand dunes by construction workers. A crime scene was established and a cadaver dog was used to search the immediate area. No further bones were located at that time.

On Monday 8 October 2007, several ribs and small bones were located by police in an area about
300 metres from the original location. A forensic pathologist and an anthropologist have examined the bones and confirmed that they are human and unrelated.

Further analysis, including carbon dating and DNA testing, will be conducted to determine the age
and origin of the bones. Test results are not yet available.

http://www.australianmissingpersonsregister.com/Remains.htm

Closing in on the killers
   Mark Morri, Crime Editor
   From: The Daily Telegraph
   September 06, 2010 12:00AM

VETERAN homicide investigators will tell you there is no such thing as an unsolved murder. There are just murders for which there has not been enough evidence to prove who did it.

"Most detectives believe they know who the killer is, and there is an old adage, 'you end up speaking to the killer even though you may not know it within about 48 hours of the murder'," retired homicide detective Michael McGann said.

Mr McGann said every homicide cop had at least one case which sticks in their craw - one they could never prove, but knew who did it.

"Mine was a little five-year-old girl called Renee Aitkin," he said. "Over a few beers my partner and I discussed the idea of grabbing him, tying him to tree, putting a gun down his throat and asking him what he did with Renee's body."

But sanity and reason prevailed instead of justice and Renee's murder is still considered unsolved. Renee was five when she was abducted from her Narooma home on the South Coast in February, 1984. Her body has never been found and she is still listed by NSW police as a missing person.

"My partner and I knew who did it. We needed to find her body," Mr McGann said.

Fast forward to 2009 and the horrific mass murder of the five Lin family members is another example of detectives having a good idea of the killer but biding their time until the evidence is there to pounce.

A source within Strike Force Norburn, set up to investigate the brutal murder of Min and Lily Lin, their sons Henry and Terry and Mrs Lin's sister Irene, said detectives had always been confident they knew who was responsible for the killing on July 18 last year, but they had to be strategic.

"You only get one go, it's not something you rush for the sake of it," the police source said.

Similarly, officers working to solve the execution-style killing of North Shore businessman Michael McGurk have always been confident they knew who was behind his murder.

What makes it more difficult for homicide officers is when no body is ever found. But every time human bones are found, there is a group of detectives - retired or still serving - who take a very keen interest in their discovery.

They are the cops who have an unsolved case on their books, and they hope the bones belong to "their" case'.

"When I hear about bones being found, my ears prick up," Detective-Sergeant Damien Loone said.

Thirteen years ago, Sgt Loone was handed the cold case file of missing Sydney mother Lynette Dawson, 34, who vanished from her Northern Beaches home on January 9, 1982. "At that stage it was a missing person's case, and was 15 years old then.

"Even after 28 years, you hope the bones turn up and provide the last pieces in the jigsaw," Sgt Loone said.

When trail bike riders stumbled across a human skeleton in the Belanglo State Forest last Sunday, cold case detectives across NSW braced for the possibility it could be the last piece of the puzzle and solve their case.

"You never know. Lynette's sibling's DNA is on a data base and if they believe these bones are of a female aged 30 to 40 it's a possibility," Sgt Loone said.

Frustration of not being able to get the killer leads to fantasies of breaking the case and creative "ways" of getting the evidence.

Another "bones" case still being investigated by police is the remains of a male and female unearthed by workmen clearing land for the desalination plant at Kurnell about three years ago.

A shin bone was found by the workers in October, 2007, and days later, about 300m away, ribs and other smaller bones were found in sandy scrubland off Sir Joseph Banks Drive. Then, a pelvis and foot bones, eerily still wearing a sock, were found.

Forensic tests carried out revealed the bones belonged to two people who died less than 50 years ago.

Just as the bones in Belanglo raised the spectre of a new- found victim of Ivan Milat, the discovery at Kurnell had many speculating they could be the victims of convicted killer Arthur "Neddy" Smith.

Smith was known to favour the dunes south of Sydney as a dumping ground for murders he committed in the '70s and '80s of unwanted underworld associates. Rubbish found with some of the bones indicates they were probably from some time after the 1970s but tests offer no clue to whether the pair were murdered, died accidentally, or even died together.

https://www.theleader.com.au/story/1464997/kurnell-dunes-bones-testing-rules-out-likely-suspects/

Kurnell dunes bones testing rules out likely suspects
Emma Partridge



SEVERAL conspiracy theories about human bones found at Kurnell in 2007 have been laid to rest after the results of DNA testing.

Many speculated the bones may have belonged to missing hitman Christopher Dale Flannery, prostitute Lynn Woodward, Kings Cross identity Juanita Nielsen or Greek businessman Peter Mitros.

But NSW Police homicide Detective Inspector Angelo Memmolo said the DNA results from two, possibly three sets of bones ruled out any chance of the bones belonging to these four.

"It's very hard to have a theory without a victim," Detective Inspector Memmolo said.

"There has been lots of talk about Peter Mitros, Woodward, Flannery and Juanita Nielsen and they have come up zero," he said.

"We have tested a number ofpeople that we believe may have had a family member that was a victim but at this stage we've come up with nothing."

More than a dozen people have been tested and police would continue to search for a match.

Workers first unearthed a shin bone on the desalination plant construction site in October 2007.

This led to a larger search that uncovered jawbone, some teeth, a pelvis and foot bones inside a sock off Sir Joseph Banks Drive.

Only recently police revealed a black wig was also found at the crime scene in the dunes.

Detective Inspector Memmolo said the DNA profile of some bones were so similar it was impossible to tell if they belonged to the same person or a third victim.

"It's more than likely two but it's possibly three, that's all we can say," he said.

Carbon dating has revealed two sets of bones belonged to men aged between 24 and 46, height 170cm to 183cm. They could have been killed somewhere between 1962 and 1981.

Some of the bones were sent to the US for testing but a lot of testing was done in Victoria.

Detective Inspector Memmolo said it was hard for police to say with certainty whether one or two offenders were responsible for the deaths.

"We can't say that it was just one offender because we don't know who the victims are," he said. "It's an interesting one because people have been buried out there and there was a whole lot of theories out there in the community about who they could be."

He said police had been back to the site many times since the bones were unearthed but it was hard to tell if there were more bones. There was no evidence found to suggest there was.

"The problem is that it is a landfill site so material has been moved all over the place and it's a massive area," he said.

Inspector Memmolo said all police could do was continue to test families of victims they believe may have been buried out there.

The mystery continues.

Rule outs


Christopher Dale Flannery, a Hitman missing since May 9, 1985


Juanita Nielsen missing since 4 July 1975 from Kings Cross, Sydney


Lyn Woodward missing since 1981 from Sydney


Peter Mitros missing from Kings Cross since 1991

Mark Johnston went missing after a night out at The Bellevue Hotel in Paddington in 1986.Credit:Greg White, Peter Morris