Missing person
Friends gather to honour Luca Bennett, lost at North Avoca Beach
A sombre message has been etched onto a rock face near where Scots student Luca Bennett, was swept away on Christmas Eve.
- by Clare Sibthorpe, Billie Eder and Riley Walter
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Water safety
Missing boy swept off rocks identified as search continues on Central Coast
A large-scale sea and air search has resumed after a 15-year-old was swept off a rock shelf on Tuesday.
- by Billie Eder, Riley Walter and Nigel Gladstone
Police concerned for woman who went missing in Logan a week ago
Esther Davidsson was last seen about 11pm on December 18, and has not been heard from since.
- by William Davis
Christmas Eve appeal for 8-year-old girl missing since October
Police are searching for Molly Noonan-Medley, who they believe is in the company of her mother.
- by Jessica McSweeney
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Police
NRL star James Maloney’s son found after ‘desperate’ search
The son of former NRL star James Maloney and his wife Jess was found in the early hours of Monday morning after going missing late on Saturday night.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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Queensland Police
Missing girl found safe and well, man charged with abduction
The girl was found 40km away after police asked for urgent public help.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
Drugs, bikies, a serial killer: How did six men vanish from the outback without a trace?
Wes Lockyer is one of six Aboriginal men from WA’s remote north to have disappeared in recent years. His family want the police and pollies to do more to find them. And the public to care.
- by Tim Elliott
Magazine
Good Weekend
The December 7 Edition
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Crime
‘Suffering no more’: Details emerge of missing teen Isla Bell’s final days alive
The Brunswick teenager was murdered last month before her body was dumped at a Dandenong tip, police believe.
- by Erin Pearson, Cassandra Morgan, Lachlan Abbott and Brittany Busch
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Courts
Families watch on as Samantha Murphy’s accused killer opts to fast-track murder trial
Patrick Stephenson will have his trial fast-tracked to the Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to murdering the missing Ballarat mother.
- by Erin Pearson
‘We’re not helping them’: Inside the town of New Zealand’s fugitive father
The parents of Tom Phillips, who vanished with his children three years ago, say they are not aiding their son as he evades police.
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