Veronika Wild

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay   Australia has 2,000 missing persons and 500 unidentified human remains – a dedicated lab could find matches Jodie Ward , University of Canberra It’s been 52 years since the Beaumont children disappeared from Glenelg beach, Adelaide on Australia Day 1966. In this case, excavation of a new area of interest – based on new evidence pointing to possible shallow graves – is expected to commence this week . Sadly however, the Beaumont children are just three of around 2,000 long-term missing people in Australia. And we also have more than 500 sets of human remains believed to be archived across the country , that have not yet been identified. It’s time Australia committed to a laboratory solely dedicated to missing persons casework. Current capability in DNA forensics could allow us to match up remains with some of these missing persons cases, and potentially give families relief. Forever wondering New research shows 38,000 ...

This page is dedicated to all the people who go missing in Australia every year and especially those who have come from overseas. Australia has around 2000 long -term missing people.   Image by Ruslan Sikunov from Pixabay   For some reason I was thinking strongly of Nancy Gr ü nwaldt last night, the young German backpacker who disappeared while riding her bike down the East Coast of Tasmania in March 1983. I don’t want to open old wounds, but I expect Nancy’s family and especially her sister cannot help but think of her either at this time of year and indeed, they may find comfort in the fact that someone in Tasmania still thinks of her and that she is not forgotten. I can never drive that road without thinking of her - so young, trusting and innocent, ready to explore the world which seemed a much more benign place then than it does now. Nancy would be 66 by now. She might have had children and a family. We hope that anyone who knows anything will come forward and...