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On december 7th, 2003, thirteenyearold daniel morcombe told his brothers he was going to sunshine plaza to get a haircut and look for christmas presents. The parents of murdered queensland schoolboy daniel morcombe have detailed frustrations with police in reporting their son missing in 2003 in a new book released today. Over a decade later, with daniels killer brought to justice thanks to an amazing covert police sting, this. Book overview the disappearance of queensland schoolboy daniel morcombe was one of the most heartbreaking and confounding child abduction and murder cases of the century, spanning almost a decade prior to the eventual arrest of known pedophile brett peter cowan, one of the original persons of interest. The undercover operation that caught daniel morcombe s killer by kate kyriacou available from rakuten kobo. On 7 december 2003 daniel morcombe disappeared on the sunshine coast, while waiting for a bus. Eight years later, brett peter cowan born 18 september 1969, a former sunshine coast resident, was charged with morcombe s murder.
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