Knocking on new leads
Tue 12 December 2006
Michelle McLochan, Journalism
The disappearance of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe stunned the peaceful community. Three years on Bruce Morcombe stood at the same spot his son Daniel was last seen, appealing to the public.
Standing under the Nambour-Connection road bridge and wearing a red ribbon pinned to his shirt and red wrist-band, Mr Morcombe says: “I don’t want to come back (here) next year.”
New leads have risen since the suspected abduction and murder, one being a cryptic clue in an anonymous letter asking "have you seen Christmas cake?" - suggesting that may be Daniel’s nickname among paedophiles.
Mr Morcombe is appealing to anyone who may know anything about this bizarre name. “Try to think about it in a sentence, it just doesn’t make sense,” Mr Morcombe says.
“We’re not desperate, but anxious,” Mr Morcombe says about finding answers.
In addition to the memorial that already lies there Mr Morcombe revealed what he called a door to try and trigger the public’s memory.
Propped in front of a Christmas tree the door displays the missing poster that thousands of Queenslanders have seen along with six questions that Mr Morcombe would like people to ask themselves.
“Did you see him alive after December 7, 2003?”
“Was he drugged in a car?”
“Is he buried in a scrub next to a new housing estate?”
“Where his remains put in a drum?”
“Is he with your sister?”
“What of his watch and clothing?”
Senior Sergeant Paul Schmidt says the police still receive many phone calls and have new information regarding this investigation and “are willing to listen to anything”.
Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers.
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