DANIEL MORCOMBE

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Thirteen year old Daniel Morcombe was last seen at approximately 2:10pm Sunday the 7th of December 2003, under the Kiel Mountain Road overpass on Nambour Connection Road (UBD 66L15) Woombye, approximately 2km north of the Big Pineapple on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. (Australia) Dan was waiting for a bus.[/img]

When Daniel disappeared he was wearing a red Billabong tee shirt, black cargo pants and light colored Globe tennis shoes.

In the weeks prior to Dan's abduction, witnesses reported a suspicious car parked at Dan's school. The occupant was male and stood out to witnesses because he never picked up any child at the school. In addition, a white van was also reported to police as being a suspicious vehicle in the area. Police released a composite of the blue car but made verylittle mention of the white van witnesses also saw in the area at the time Dan was abducted.

3 years into the investigation:

Senior Sergeant Julie Elliott said father Bruce Morcombe's questions about 13-year-old Daniel's abduction and suspected murder three years ago had prompted "a significant number" of phone calls to Crime Stoppers overnight and yesterday and the information was being checked by police.

Mr. Morcombe used the three-year anniversary to reveal the family's shocking belief that his son had been referred to by the pet name "Christmas cake" by a pedophile network which knew what had happened to him and he appealed for someone to come forward and help solve the crime. Police quickly stated the anonymous female caller who gave this information to Mr. Morcombe was an "unreliable witness".

A man believed to have been involved in the disappearance more than two years ago of Daniel Morcombe regularly stalked a school close to where the Queensland teen went missing, a new police report reveals. Six mothers witnessed a suspicious-looking man scanning the Sunshine Coast primary school on several occasions but did not report their concerns until months after Daniel disappeared, according to police. Queensland Homicide Investigations superintendent Mike Condon said the man was seen in a blue 1980s-model sedan at Woombye State Primary School eight times before Daniel went missing from nearby Nambour Connection Road on December 7, 2003.

"The investigation has gathered information with a number of parents of children at the school saying they saw a blue sedan and a man sitting in it in the 10 weeks leading up to the abduction," Supt Condon said. "They stated that their attention was drawn to the car because the man never appeared to pick any children up," he said. "We are asking other parents or others in the area to recall whether they saw this vehicle." Daniel, who was 13 when he went missing, was last seen talking to two men in a car similar to the one described by the women.

Police have released new composite images of the suspect created from their statements. They reveal a scruffy man with blond surfer-style hair, who is probably in his late 20's or early 30's. Police and Daniel's parents have waged a nationwide publicity campaign since the teen went missing. Investigators regularly travel interstate to check out possible leads on the case, including people arrested on pedophilia charges.

It might not be big News.................. but around he Sunshine Coast they have arrested and charged a person of interest! with the Murder of this young boy and yes he will have his day in court!  but the relief to Daniels Morcombe's parents must be overwhelming.