It has been 10 years since three-year-old William Tyrrell vanished from the town of Kendall, on the New South Wales mid-North coast. It is a case that has captivated the nation and frustrated police, who have so far, been unable to find out what happened to the little boy in the Spiderman suit.
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00:00Michelle Dalton used to make the same phone call every morning to her elderly mother who
00:07lived around the corner in Kendal.
00:10A call she made on September 12, 2014 is forever seared in her memory.
00:16I rang her and just said, what are you up to?
00:18And she's like, oh, we're outside looking for a little boy.
00:21Her mother lived on Beneroon Drive, where three-year-old William Tyrrell was last seen
00:26playing in his foster grandmother's yard that morning.
00:29Mrs Dalton quickly joined the search, along with dozens of other locals.
00:34When you're a mum, I think you know the feeling of losing your little boy.
00:39And yeah, we were just all desperately looking for this little boy.
00:43In those crucial first few hours and days, police assumed William had simply wandered
00:48off into the bush or into a nearby property.
00:51But as the search widened and the days ticked by, it became more difficult to ignore other
00:56possible scenarios.
00:58We have no indication whether young William is out in the bush or whether other forms
01:04of human intervention are involved.
01:06In the 10 years since, there have been multiple forensic searches in and around Kendal, which
01:11have all failed to find any significant physical evidence.
01:15The coronial inquest has dragged on for more than five years and heard testimony about
01:20multiple persons of interest, but no charges have ever been laid.
01:24In recent years, the strike force has publicly identified William's foster mother as their
01:28prime suspect, but she has also never been charged over his disappearance and denies
01:34any knowledge of what happened to him.
01:36If the police had enough evidence to charge William Tyrrell's foster mother in relation
01:41to this, then that would have happened by now.
01:44With the coronial inquest expected to finally wrap up later this year, there are fears William's
01:49case will remain unsolved.
01:51Sadly at this point, I think that if William's final location is ever discovered, that may
01:57be an accident.
01:58It's rare that somebody can commit a crime as serious as child abduction and likely murder
02:05without ever telling anyone, so somebody out there knows something.
02:08For those in the Kendal community, William's case has a lasting impact.
02:13It's got a terrible stigma hanging over it, and you can go anywhere in Australia and mention
02:19Kendal and they all know that's where little William Tyrrell disappeared from.
02:24A once happy little boy who may never be found.