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David MurrayNational Crime Correspondent

David Murray is The Australian’s National Crime Correspondent. He was previously Crime Editor at The Courier-Mail and prior to that was News Corp’s London-based Europe Correspondent. He is behind investigative podcasts The Lighthouse and Searching for Rachel Antonio and is the author of The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay.

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Former Bowen Pool Manager Sid Pate outside his Tewantin home.

Mystery calls on day she vanished

A FORMER pool manager appears to know more than he is telling about a schoolgirl who vanished from a Queensland town – and he denies he made two mystery phone calls on the day she disappeared.

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**** HOLD ***** SPECIAL FOR COURIER MAIL **** Kathleen Jones and Mick Stivic in Narooma, NSW. Picture Kym Smith

‘It was like her life meant nothing’

WHEN the man convicted over her daughter’s death was released from prison, Kathleen Jones was furious. But she’ll always be grateful for one thing that saved her family from even more pain.

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Schoolgirl’s secret thoughts revealed

Schoolgirl’s secret thoughts revealed

ONLY one thing occupied the schoolgirl’s private thoughts – “I dream about him,” she wrote in a letter to a friend, made public for the first time since she mysteriously disappeared 18 years ago.

QLD News
Anniversary of disappearance of Rachel Antonio in Bowen Rachael Jan 1998 with dogs Toby and Jess.

‘It should’ve been searched’

THE father of missing Queensland schoolgirl Rachel Antonio says police failed to search where he thinks would be an obvious place to dump a body – and fears it’s too late to search there now.

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