This has been puzzling me also. It seems as if that is the first thing you would think would be done in this modern policing world of DNA & databases.
I wish everyone would stop the blame game at the police. They have worked it out now and it is a pretty incredible case. It's not helpful. They do a good job.
I don't think it is a blame game. If the shoe fits..
Anyway, I think they just didn't consider the possibility, maybe due in part to the initial bone analysis? I think, saying the person found in Belanglo had not spent much time in Australia also led the facial anthropologist to shape the face with a distinctly European look.
It is hoped that lessons will be learned from this, and methods will be refined for future cases. It is obvious that something in Karlie's makeup threw those initial results, so hopefully they will ascertain why that happened. I am sure they will, because the cops go all out to solve these cases, and I imagine more than a few maybe kicking themselves for the oversight as well.
As far as this case goes though, it would have only really meant earlier ID, and I doubt it would have changed much at all. The match simply would have been made sooner.
Because these pondscum are allowed to have their names suppressed if they ask their lawyers to do so....and yay for them...they can even legally change their names if they choose to do so... wonderful system we have...
They do need to have a reason for name suppression, and it has to be valid. I have seen quite a few cases where the judge will chose to not suppress the perpetrator's ID. It isn't just a case of ask and you shall receive, though sometimes it may seem like that.
As for the name changing, well anyone can change their name legally. i would love to see any people convicted of violent crimes against people, especially kids, lose the right to change their names. If they choose to do the crime, then I am sure they won't mind living with the consequences.
The thing that bugs me with this is why this creep held onto the remains of little Candles for so long. And my thoughts take me to very dark places.With the info that they were killed not long after hitting the road, I have a horrid feeling that it was his attraction to the little one that drew him to them.
Leaving these bottom feeding scum who hurt beautiful little kids and their mums to bleed out slowly while chained up in a rat infested sewer would be too good for creeps like this, but oh so rewarding for the rest of us. Just saying.