Terry Floyd murder suspect Raymond Jones is confronted by Terry’s brother Daryl Floyd
DETECTIVES have convicted paedophile Raymond Jones in the frame for the 1975 abduction and murder of Maryborough schoolboy, Terry Floyd. Now Terry’s brother has confronted the paedophile as his search for answers continues.
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THE brother of missing schoolboy Terry Floyd has confronted the paedophile police believe abducted and murdered him.
Daryl Floyd yelled out “did you kill my brother?” and “where did you put his body?” as a stunned Raymond Jones pushed past him.
The confrontation took place outside KFC in Mildura.
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“Jones was too ashamed to look me in the eye,” Mr Floyd told the Sunday Herald Sun.
“He just ignored my questions, got in his car and drove away.”
The Sunday Herald Sun is aware of evidence police have implicating Jones in the 1975 murder of Terry, 12, that it can’t reveal for legal reasons.
Jones, 66, is also being investigated over other alleged sexual offences against children.
Mr Floyd’s recent attempt to get Jones to talk was filmed by a 60 Minutes crew and will be aired during Sunday’s show.
The Sunday Herald Sun has also confronted Jones in a Mildura car park and asked him similar questions about his role in Terry’s unsolved murder.
That was back in 2010 when new evidence prompted Mr Floyd to start excavating the old gold mine near Avoca where he still believes his brother’s body was dumped.
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When the Sunday Herald Sun spoke to Jones he insisted he wasn’t involved in Terry’s disappearance and had nothing to fear from the new search for Terry’s body.
“I’ve just about had a belly full of it all. I’m not going to just elaborate on anything,” Jones said.
“I’ve bloody got nothing to hide; it’s just that I’m bloody that sick of it all. I had nothing to do with it.”
Eight years on, Mr Floyd is still searching for his brother’s body.
Victoria Police considers Jones to be the prime suspect for abducting and murdering Terry.
The Sunday Herald Sun has previously revealed leading forensic psychiatrist Alan Bartholomew warned in 1975 that Jones had a problem with boys and the propensity to murder.
Dr Bartholomew twice interviewed Jones in prison after Jones was charged with indecently assaulting a young boy in a Ballarat toilet block.
Jones admitted to Dr Bartholomew he had been having inappropriate sexual urges “on and off” during the previous eight years, “mainly when pushed aside by girls and things like that”.
Dr Bartholomew said Jones had threatened his young male victim by saying “keep quiet or I’ll hit you”.
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“It is impossible to guess what might have happened if the boy had made a noise,” Dr Bartholomew’s report on Jones said.
“But a more serious assault could have occurred, and possibly murder.
“This is a real possibility as the prisoner claims that his nerves are bad and that he loses control.
“The fact must remain that the prisoner is potentially dangerous and likely to remain so for some time.”
Dr Bartholomew provided his report on Jones to a County Court judge exactly a month after Terry disappeared while on his way home to Maryborough from nearby Avoca.
Jones was out on bail when Terry disappeared on June 28, 1975.
Jones was later convicted of indecently assaulting the boy in the Ballarat toilet block and was jailed for two years.
While Jones was one of many men interviewed soon after Terry disappeared, he was initially not considered a serious suspect.
That was largely because police and Maryborough locals were convinced another convicted paedophile, Francis Robert Drake, the son of the Maryborough mayor at the time, had abducted, sexually assaulted and killed Terry.
It wasn’t until the then homicide squad detective Ron Iddles reinvestigated Terry’s disappearance, while preparing for Terry’s 2001 inquest, that Drake, who died in 1991, was eliminated as a suspect and Jones firmed up.
Jones drove a fawn Holden panel van at the time Terry disappeared and has admitted being on the Pyrenees Highway, travelling from Avoca to Maryborough, at the time Terry was standing by the side of the road trying to get a lift home.
Three witnesses have told police they saw a vehicle similar to Jones’s panel van near a boy matching Terry’s description.
The then Sen-Sgt Iddles identified Jones as possibly being the person responsible for abducting Terry and interviewed him about the case in 2001.
“I came across information, which came from Buster Allen (a friend of Jones who is now dead) and I’ll put it to you that he told people that you were responsible for the actual death of Terry Floyd,” he told Jones during the interview.
“That you placed him in a mine shaft somewhere near Bung Bong Hill. What do you say to that?
Jones replied: “Nothing, it’s a lie.”
Sen-Sgt Iddles told the Sunday Herald Sun Jones was on bail for offences of indecent assault — as a result of assaulting the young boy in a toilet block in Ballarat — at the time Terry disappeared.
“He was convicted of this offence and sentenced to two years imprisonment,” he said.
“On the account given by Jones, when he was travelling from Avoca to Maryborough there is a strong possibility he would have seen Floyd, although he denies this.”
Jones was first interviewed by police just weeks after Terry disappeared in 1975.
Police also searched his panel van and found a pair of blue combination overalls.
“These overalls had a large stain on them, which we failed to establish what that stain was,” police told Jones while interviewing him a second time in 1979.
Jones told police he couldn’t remember anything about the overalls.
Terry’s brother Daryl Floyd is disappointed police didn’t safely store Jones’ stained overalls back in 1975.
“Imagine if that stain was blood, Terry’s blood,” Mr Floyd said.
“With DNA technology these days they would have been able to test that stain to see if it was from Terry.
“If it did turn out to be Terry’s blood that would have been damning evidence against Jones, but we will never know because the overalls can’t be found.”
Police have offered a $1 million reward to solve the case.
Anyone with information on the Terry Floyd case should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or www.crimestoppersvic.com.au
The Terry Floyd cold case will be featured in a chapter in Herald Sun journalist Keith Moor’s new true crime book Mugshots 3, which is being released later this month.