Police on Thursday arrested a man 47 years after
he abducted and murdered a toddler from an Australian beach.
The 63-year-old man, is
accused of abducting and killing a three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, whose
disappearance Brad Ainsworth, New South Wales police detective, told reporters
that the man, who was once considered as a person of interest, was arrested in
Melbourne.
From a beach in the
town of Wollongong, south of Sydney, puzzled officials for decades.
“I’m not going to get
into the specifics of the actual detail of the offences, but I can say that
they’re quite horrific and they’ll be unfolding in court,” Ainsworth said.
Grimmer vanished from a
changing area at Fairy Meadow Beach, where she had spent the morning with her
mother and three brothers.
She was never seen
again and her body was never found.
Police believe Grimmer
died within an hour of her abduction, Ainsworth said.
The arrested man was 16
when Grimmer went missing and he had been interviewed in the months after the
toddler disappeared, but was never charged. Police reopened the case last year.
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