Brother's gold mine search for body of Terry Floyd
COLD CASE FILES: A NEW search for the body of missing schoolboy Terry Floyd will start next week at an old gold mine.
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A NEW search for the body of missing schoolboy Terry Floyd will start next week.
His brother, Daryl, has raised enough money to continue excavating the old gold mine where he believes a paedophile disposed of Terry's body in 1975.
But Mr Floyd doubts he has the cash to complete the search.
He had to abandon the excavation just over a year ago after running out of money.
"Thanks to donations from individuals and companies, and my own savings, I am able to start digging again on April 6," Mr Floyd said.
"But excavating an old mine is an expensive exercise and I will need help to complete the dig."
Mr Floyd has spent more than $50,000 since the Herald Sun revealed in September 2010 that the dig was about to start, following the discovery of new evidence suggesting Terry's body was in the mine.
Victoria Police contributed a further $50,000 to the search, but doesn't consider the information about the possible burial site is strong enough for it to organise and fully fund the excavation.
The head of the homicide squad's cold case unit is chasing fresh information about Terry's disappearance.
Det Sen-Sgt Ron Iddles was given evidence last month that implicated a paedophile in the disappearance of Terry, 12.
The Herald Sun revealed in 2010 that convicted paedophile Raymond Kenneth Jones, now 60, had been implicated in Terry's abduction and murder.
Jones was on bail when Terry disappeared on June 28, 1975. He was later convicted of indecently assaulting a boy in a Ballarat toilet and jailed for two years.
Sen-Sgt Iddles still considers Jones the prime suspect and will check whether Jones has any connection with the latest paedophile nominated as being involved in Terry's disappearance.
Three witnesses have told police they saw a vehicle similar to Jones's panel van near where Terry was hitchhiking from Avoca to Maryborough.
Jones has told the Herald Sun he was not involved and has nothing to fear from the search for Terry's body and renewed police interest in him.