Cops name suspect in 2012 murder case; cadaver dogs search hinterland property for victim

Police are using cadaver dogs on a Gold Coast hinterland property hoping to find remains of murder victim Tina Greer.

Police are searching a property with cadaver dogs as investigations ramp up into the suspected murder of a Gold Coast mum in 2012.

Homicide Squad officers executed a search warrant on a Gold Coast hinterland property on Monday, more than eight years since Tina Greer disappeared.

Police now believe the 32-year-old was murdered by her patched Finks bikie gang member boyfriend, Les ‘Grumpy Sharman’, 58, who died in 2018.

Detective Inspector Damien Hansen said police believed Sharman had murdered Ms Greer and that her remains were somewhere on the Bonogin property they were searching with cadaver dogs and State Emergency Service volunteers.

Police begin searching the Bonogin Valley property on Monday where they hope to find remainds of 32-year-old Tina Greer from Beechmont, who was last seen in January 2012. Picture: Glenn Hampson

Insp Hansen said police believed Ms Greer was murdered elsewhere, and was later brought to the property with the help of other people.

“We have conducted an extensive investigation and as such are preparing a report to the coroner in relation to Tina’s murder, we will be naming Les Sharman as our person of interest and we believe he has murdered Tina,” he told a media conference.

“I’m confident we know what happened and that will form part of our report to the coroner.

“I’m confident she didn’t die here.

“In relation to the search today, we have received some credible information, which has brought us to this property.

“We believe that Sharman has been assisted by persons in the disposal of Tina’s body and the disposal of evidence that is linked to the murder.”

Sharman was treated as a person of interest at the time of Ms Greer’s disappearance, but was never arrested and died in a car accident in November 2018.

Tina Greer, who police believe was murdered in 2012.

A reward for $250,000 was approved in January this year for information which leads to the apprehension and conviction of the person/s responsible for Tina’s death.

Ms Greer was last seen by family at a Beechmont Rd residence at 2pm on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, when she intended to travel to Clumber.

Witness accounts confirm Ms Greer made it to Sharman’s house on Spicers Gap Rd in Aratula, near Boonah, and she was seen leaving there on January 19.

But, later that day, Sharman told Ms Greer’s family she was missing.

Her car was found at the end of a dirt road, near Governor’s Chair Lookout at Spicers Gap Rd at Clumber on January 21.

Police extensively searched nearby Lake Moogerah and surrounding bushland undertaken in the months after her disappearance, but never found anything.

Det Insp Hansen said they were searching for remains and was confident they would be located.

“We’re looking for Tina’s remains and evidence of the murder that has been disposed of here,” he said.

“I’m very hopeful that we’ll locate it (Tina’s remains) and I’m also very confident that we will be able to bring further people in and prosecute people for this offence.

“We have got SES, cadaver dogs, forensic and scenes of crime as well as investigators.”

Det Insp Hansen said Sharman was a “feared man” but hoped his death would encourage people to come forward with information.

“He was a 26-year patched member of the Finks motorcycle gang. With his passing, perhaps people have been more willing to come forward,” he said.

“It’s always been a difficult investigation, it is difficult for people to provide information on those sorts of people, he was a feared man.”