On March 21, 1972, 14 year old Eimeo schoolgirl, Marilyn Wallman, rode her bike down a country lane which led from her home to the main road where her school bus would collect her and take her to school, as she did every school day.
She never made it to the road or the bus. Instead, she vanished a mere 180 metres from her home, in a section of the track which lay in a dip invisible from the house.
Her two brothers, David, aged 11, and Rex, aged 9, straggling along the lane just 10 minutes after her, found her bike lying in the road, its front wheel still ominously spinning.
Her school bag was flung on the ground, its contents scattered in the dust.
Her school hat lay a few metres away, resting in the six feet high sugar cane which lined both sides of the track.
David immediately ran home to alert his mother.
Rex sat with his sister's belongings, and while he waited he claimed to have heard a voice, which he believed to be Marilyn's, complaining that her legs hurt.
Extensive searches were conducted within minutes of the site of the disappearance, culminating in the biggest search ever launched in the Mackay district. M
ore than 300 police and volunteers conducted shoulder to shoulder searches through the canefields and bush in the vicinity of her disappearance, and through more than 160 kilometres of highways, roads and tracks in the district.
Hundreds of creeks, gullies and bridges were searched, and scores of people interviewed.
Dams and individual properties were searched on the advice of two clairvoyants.
The only real lead the police ever obtained, however, were the details of three cars seen in the area on the morning of the disappearance.
Two of these cars were located and their occupants cleared of any involvement.
The third car has never been found.
Despite a continued campaign for information, lasting months after the event, no further material of evidentiary value has ever turned up.
A mere six days after Marilyn Wallman's disappearance, the police ruled that she was abducted and murdered by persons unknown, in a place and by methods unknown.
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/fht/fht1/morrisseydavis%20paper.pdf
She never made it to the road or the bus. Instead, she vanished a mere 180 metres from her home, in a section of the track which lay in a dip invisible from the house.
Her two brothers, David, aged 11, and Rex, aged 9, straggling along the lane just 10 minutes after her, found her bike lying in the road, its front wheel still ominously spinning.
Her school bag was flung on the ground, its contents scattered in the dust.
Her school hat lay a few metres away, resting in the six feet high sugar cane which lined both sides of the track.
David immediately ran home to alert his mother.
Rex sat with his sister's belongings, and while he waited he claimed to have heard a voice, which he believed to be Marilyn's, complaining that her legs hurt.
Extensive searches were conducted within minutes of the site of the disappearance, culminating in the biggest search ever launched in the Mackay district. M
ore than 300 police and volunteers conducted shoulder to shoulder searches through the canefields and bush in the vicinity of her disappearance, and through more than 160 kilometres of highways, roads and tracks in the district.
Hundreds of creeks, gullies and bridges were searched, and scores of people interviewed.
Dams and individual properties were searched on the advice of two clairvoyants.
The only real lead the police ever obtained, however, were the details of three cars seen in the area on the morning of the disappearance.
Two of these cars were located and their occupants cleared of any involvement.
The third car has never been found.
Despite a continued campaign for information, lasting months after the event, no further material of evidentiary value has ever turned up.
A mere six days after Marilyn Wallman's disappearance, the police ruled that she was abducted and murdered by persons unknown, in a place and by methods unknown.
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/fht/fht1/morrisseydavis%20paper.pdf
On March 21, 1972, 14 year old Eimeo schoolgirl, Marilyn Wallman, rode her bike down a country lane which led from her home to the main road where her school bus would collect her and take her to school, as she did every school day.
She never made it to the road or the bus. Instead, she vanished a mere 180 metres from her home, in a section of the track which lay in a dip invisible from the house.
Her two brothers, David, aged 11, and Rex, aged 9, straggling along the lane just 10 minutes after her, found her bike lying in the road, its front wheel still ominously spinning.
Her school bag was flung on the ground, its contents scattered in the dust.
Her school hat lay a few metres away, resting in the six feet high sugar cane which lined both sides of the track.
David immediately ran home to alert his mother.
Rex sat with his sister's belongings, and while he waited he claimed to have heard a voice, which he believed to be Marilyn's, complaining that her legs hurt.
Extensive searches were conducted within minutes of the site of the disappearance, culminating in the biggest search ever launched in the Mackay district. M
ore than 300 police and volunteers conducted shoulder to shoulder searches through the canefields and bush in the vicinity of her disappearance, and through more than 160 kilometres of highways, roads and tracks in the district.
Hundreds of creeks, gullies and bridges were searched, and scores of people interviewed.
Dams and individual properties were searched on the advice of two clairvoyants.
The only real lead the police ever obtained, however, were the details of three cars seen in the area on the morning of the disappearance.
Two of these cars were located and their occupants cleared of any involvement.
The third car has never been found.
Despite a continued campaign for information, lasting months after the event, no further material of evidentiary value has ever turned up.
A mere six days after Marilyn Wallman's disappearance, the police ruled that she was abducted and murdered by persons unknown, in a place and by methods unknown.
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/fht/fht1/morrisseydavis%20paper.pdf
She never made it to the road or the bus. Instead, she vanished a mere 180 metres from her home, in a section of the track which lay in a dip invisible from the house.
Her two brothers, David, aged 11, and Rex, aged 9, straggling along the lane just 10 minutes after her, found her bike lying in the road, its front wheel still ominously spinning.
Her school bag was flung on the ground, its contents scattered in the dust.
Her school hat lay a few metres away, resting in the six feet high sugar cane which lined both sides of the track.
David immediately ran home to alert his mother.
Rex sat with his sister's belongings, and while he waited he claimed to have heard a voice, which he believed to be Marilyn's, complaining that her legs hurt.
Extensive searches were conducted within minutes of the site of the disappearance, culminating in the biggest search ever launched in the Mackay district. M
ore than 300 police and volunteers conducted shoulder to shoulder searches through the canefields and bush in the vicinity of her disappearance, and through more than 160 kilometres of highways, roads and tracks in the district.
Hundreds of creeks, gullies and bridges were searched, and scores of people interviewed.
Dams and individual properties were searched on the advice of two clairvoyants.
The only real lead the police ever obtained, however, were the details of three cars seen in the area on the morning of the disappearance.
Two of these cars were located and their occupants cleared of any involvement.
The third car has never been found.
Despite a continued campaign for information, lasting months after the event, no further material of evidentiary value has ever turned up.
A mere six days after Marilyn Wallman's disappearance, the police ruled that she was abducted and murdered by persons unknown, in a place and by methods unknown.
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/fht/fht1/morrisseydavis%20paper.pdf
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Buried 06-Mar-2015 aged 14 yrs
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