Personal Details
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 12 July 1986
At Time of Disappearance on 27 July 1998
Age: 12
Height (cm): 153.0
Build: Medium
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Brown
Complexion: Olive
Nationality:
Racial Appearance: East Asian
Circumstances: Quanne was last seen by her father at 7.00am on 27 July 1998. Quanne left her Granville home to attend school. She intended to catch a train from Clyde to Strathfield. Quanne did not arrive at school and has not been seen since this time. There are grave concerns for her welfare.
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Office of the Minister for Police
SYDNEY, 3 February 1999.
MISSING CHILD – SUSPECTED ABDUCTION
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($200,000)
REWARD
ON the 27 July 1998, Quanne DIEC, aged 12 years, left her home at Seventh Street, Granville to walk to the Clyde Railway Station to travel to the Strathfield Girls High School.
Miss DIEC did not arrive at school and there have been no confi rmed sightings of her since leaving home on the 27 July 1998. Grave fears are held for the child’s safety. Notice is hereby given that a reward of up to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) will be paid by the Government of New South Wales for information leading to the location of Quanne DIEC or the arrest and conviction of any person or persons who may have been responsible for the commission of any serious indictable offence relating to her disappearance.
The reward offer of $100,000 made on the 13 August 1998 is hereby withdrawn and replaced by this offer. The allocation of this reward will be at the sole discretion of the Commissioner of Police.
The urgent assistance and co-operation of the public is especially sought in the matter. Any information, which will be treated as confi dential, may be given at any time of the day or night at any Police Station or by telephone -
Personal Details
Last seen: Tuesday, 30 June 1998
Year of birth: 1950
Height: 157cm
Build: Average
Eyes:
Hair: Short Brown Hair
Complexion: Fair
Gender: Female
Distinguishing Feature:
Circumstances: Christine Redford was last seen at her home address - a unit at Kensington Gardens on 30 June 1998. Enquiries reveal that she left her handbag, which contained her purse, and other personal belongings at her unit. There are no clues to her disappearance and no apparent motivation for her to leave and start another life.
Personal Details
Last seen: 25 April 1998
Employment: Student
Age: 16
Year of birth:
Height:
Build:
Eyes:
Hair: Fair
Complexion: Fair
Gender: Female
Distinguishing Feature:
Circumstances: Bowen schoolgirl Rachel Antonio, 16, was dropped off by her mother at a cinema on Anzac Day, 1998, and never came home. She was was last seen sitting alone on a beach 500m away. Her body has never been found.
Personal Details
Sex: Female
Year of Birth: 1982
At Time of Disappearance on 26 October 1997
Age: 15
Height (cm): 172.0
Build: Medium
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Blue
Complexion: Fair
Nationality:
Racial Appearance: Caucasian
Circumstances Jessica was last seen in the Kelso area
Police prepare to interview workers at a local timber mill as new information emerges over the disappearance 14 years ago of NSW teen Jessica Small.
NEARLY 14 years after Jessica Small was last heard screaming in the back of a car near Bathurst, police have descended on the area in the hopes a local timber mill will reveal the mystery of her demise.
The 15-year-old's abduction about 12.40am on Sunday, October 26, 1997, has haunted the central tablelands town for more than a decade. But police say they have now established their strongest lead yet.
New information suggests a man, aged about 30, was asking about Jessica at a Bathurst games parlour, Amuse Me, where she and her best friend, Vanessa, had gathered with other teenagers on the Saturday night.
Heard screaming ... Jessica Small
''It [was] frequented by young teenagers and on the night in question there was an adult male in the centre, about 30 years old, who was actually making inquiries about Jessica Small,'' Detective Sergeant Peter Smith, from the homicide squad, said.
The man had revealed he worked at the local timber mill in nearby Oberon, where 20 investigators set up camp yesterday with plans to stay ''as long as it takes''.
Detective Sergeant Smith said they would interview every male worker at the timber mill who, in 1997, was aged between 18 and 45.
The hunt is on ...
State Emergency Service workers search near the area where Jessica Small vanished in 1997. Photo: Andrew Taylor
Jessica and Vanessa, also 15, hitched a ride from central Bathurst with a man - thought to be driving a white VK Holden Commodore sedan - to Kelso, just east of the town.
The man stopped the car and turned off the headlights just short of their destination, then grabbed Vanessa around her throat. While Vanessa broke free and was able to run to neighbours for help, Jessica was never seen again.
Jessica's mother, Ricki Small, said she had long suspected the man who took her daughter might have been a local.
''I've always had a gut feeling it might have been someone from around the Bathurst area,'' she said.
''It could be truth time and I'm hoping so, because we need closure - our family does.''
Nearly 14 years after Jessica Small was abducted in Bathurst, police say they have their strongest lead yet.
Jessica Small, then 15 years old, was abducted at about 12.40am on October 26, 1997.
New information suggests a man, aged about 30, asked about the teenager at a Bathurst games parlour, Amuse Me, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
'It (was) frequented by young teenagers and on the night in question there was an adult male in the centre ... who was actually making inquiries about Jessica,' Detective Sergeant Peter Smith, from the homicide squad told the newspaper.
The man revealed he worked at a timber mill near Oberon.
Twenty investigators reportedly went to the timber mill on Sunday with plans to interview every male worker at the timber mill who in 1997 was aged between 18 and 45.
Jessica's mother, Ricki Small, told the newspaper that she had suspected the person who took her daughter was a local.
'I've always had a gut feeling it might have been someone from around the Bathurst area.'
_______________________________________________________________ Search goes on for Jessica's abductor
JACINTA CARROLL 05 Aug, 2010 04:00 AM The Western Advocate
ALMOST 13 years ago Bathurst teenager Jessica Small and her friend, Vanessa, enjoyed a night out at an amusement centre.
It was nothing out of the ordinary, the girls were close, almost like sisters, but they were young and naïve, and trusted the wrong person.
After hanging out at the amusement centre the girls accepted a lift from a stranger, who agreed to drive the girls to another friend’s house in Kelso.
But they never made it there.
Driving along Hereford Street, the man stopped the car, and a struggle ensued.
Vanessa made it out of the car and ran for help. As she ran she heard Jessica’s screams.
No one has seen the 15 year old since.
This week is Missing Persons Week, when the community is again urged to work with police to try and find out what happened to Jessica.
Thirteen years after she was taken, officers re-investigating her disappearance have not given up hope of finding her abductor.
A second strike force, established in October 2007, has spent the last three years reviewing and reinvestigating the case.
Homicide Detective Inspector Peter Smith heads the case and said he remains optimistic about finding out what happened to Jessica.
In the last three years homicide officers have visited the city, re-examined the crime scene and re-interviewed key witness Vanessa Conlon.
Detective Inspector Smith said officers would again be in Bathurst in the next fortnight following up leads.
“The case is still being investigated, and we continue to proceed with the aim of criminal charges being laid.
“We are still holding out that we will find him [the man who abducted Jessica],” he said.
As Missing Persons Week draws to a close on Sunday, Police Minister Michael Daley said the focus of this year’s campaign was on the misconception people must wait 24 hours before contacting police in relation to a missing person.
“The first 24 to 48 hours in a missing person’s case is critical for both the investigation and the well-being of the person. So the message to the community is simple – don’t wait to call,” he said in a statement on Sunday.
Anyone with information on missing teenager Jessica Small should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
_______________________________________________________________ New leads in missing teen cold case
Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:00pm AEST - ABC
Detectives from the New South Wales unsolved homicide team have released new information about the disappearance of Bathurst teenager, Jessica Small, 12 years ago.
The 15-year-old was last seen in the Bathurst CBD, in the state's central west, in the early hours of October 26, 1997 when she and a friend got into a car driven by an unknown male.
Police believe the pair were assaulted.
The friend managed to escape but Jessica was never seen again.
The head of Strike Force Carica II, Detective Sergeant Peter Smith, says new information about the car was received after witnesses were re-interviewed.
"The motor vehicle was a light coloured VK Holden Commodore with an orange blanket on the back parcel shelf and a number of holes on the front passenger footwell," he said.
"That's very significant information and we believe it's a very particular vehicle and those particular descriptions should jog somebody's memory."
He says even a small piece of new information can provide significant leads.
"The holes in the passenger footwell combined with an orange blanket on the rear and a VK Holden Commodore, I think someone would remember that car," he said.
"The holes have been described as not big enough to put your foot through but big enough to see the road through, so I think it would stick in someone's mind if they've been in that vehicle."
A coronial inquiry into Jessica Small's disappearance is due to be conducted, possibly next year.
Below is a Press Release From
Police Minister John Day
Released by The Liberal Party 4/8/97 printed in its entirety
The mysterious disappearance of a young Perth woman nearly 22 years ago will be a major focus during a week-long campaign by police to find missing persons in Western Australia.
Police Minister John Day said the local campaign was part of National Missing Persons Week which was an important opportunity for local police to help solve 69 cases of missing persons still outstanding in WA.
"Somewhere in the community there are people who do have the answers to what happened to these missing persons," Mr Day said.
"I urge them to come forward with any information in which to help police locate these people.
"This year police will be mounting displays of various unsolved cases in shopping centres throughout the State in the hope that someone will come forward with details of an unsolved case.
"People can help police unravel a mystery and still remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000."
Mr Day said one mysterious case in WA still unresolved was the disappearance of Glenyce Rae McGowan from the Nanutarra Roadhouse, 370kms north of Carnarvon in December 1975.
Glenyce was making her way to Mt Tom Price from Perth when she was forced to camp at the roadhouse overnight because of local flooding. The following morning she was missing.
Mr Day said the Missing Persons Bureau would use the high profile campaign to distribute an age enhanced photograph of Glenyce in the hope someone may recognise her and inform police.
WA's Missing Persons Bureau receive an average of about 3300 reports of missing persons each year - with 60 per cent of these being previously unrecorded cases. The Bureau has a 98 per cent success rate of locating all reported missing persons.
Mr Day said the Missing Persons Bureau would be promoting National Missing Persons Week at the following shopping centres:
August 4 Perth City;
August 5 Rockingham;
August 6 Joondalup;
August 7 Carousel;
August 8 Midland; and -
August 9 Morley Galleria.
Media contact: Mark Thompson on 322 2311
John Day
Age: 25 Years
Height: 152 cm
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Circumstances:
Peta WEBER and her husband were fishing off The Gap, Albany at 0645 hrs, on the 22nd of June 1997. Peta went off to the toilet and has not been seen since. Despite extensive inquiries, Police have been unable to locate her. Last seen:Black leggings, purple/blue parker with hood, ugg boots or white shoes.
If anyone has seen Peta Simone WEBER , or has information regarding this persons whereabouts, please contact 1800 333 000
DOB: N/A
HAIR: Black BUILD: Medium EYES: Brown
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Benchawyn was last believed to have been in Melbourne in late 1997. She might have travelled overseas or to Western Australia since this time.
