From beagles media timeline.... (thanks)
Police say Kiesha's parents are suspects
Updated Sun Aug 8, 2010 12:37pm AEST
Police investigating the disappearance of six-year-old western Sydney girl Kiesha Abrahams say her immediate family are all being treated as suspects.
It is a week today since the girl's mother reported her missing from their Mount Druitt home.
Detectives have interviewed the girl's mother, stepfather and father, who have all denied involvement in her disappearance.
But Inspector Oxford says everyone is being considered a suspect at this stage.
The girl's mother and stepfather have been living in a nearby hotel, which he also questioned the wisdom of.
"I wonder if Kiesha happens to walk home, and who's there to wait for her?" he said.
Inspector Oxford says they are not giving up yet but he believes there is little hope of finding her alive.
"I still entertain a hope but you've got to be realistic," he said.
"After all this time if she's a young six-year-old girl by herself, where has she gone and has she perished somewhere?"
First posted Sun Aug 8, 2010 12:26pm AEST (ABC News Website)
Note that this is when the police state they are losing hope of finding Kiesha alive.
Then the next day a raid is carried out on the unit:
A DRAMATIC second raid was made on the home of missing girl Kiesha Abrahams yesterday after police received fresh allegations. Homicide detectives and a team of forensic police wearing blue jumpsuits arrived at the family home in Woodstock Ave, Hebersham, armed with floor plans for the unit about 3pm.
They emerged carrying internal doors, skirting boards, rolls of carpet, and what appeared to be a child's mattress.
Police would not elaborate on what new information they had received, other than to say it was "significant to the case".
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ha-abrahams-home/story-e6freuzi-1225903168853
^bbm-
What kind of allegations would send them back to remove
these items?
Why did it take over a week for them to take a childs mattress? (presuming it was Kiesha's)....especially if Kristi had told the police that the bed was stripped when she went in there that morning? Or had she not told them that tidbit back then?
Still I'd assume the first thing they would take would be Kieshas mattress, if it was thought she was taken from her bed. :waitasec:
And why were floor plans needed? Or is that SOP?
Gotta go back and look into the first search of the unit....to see if it they did remove a matress in the beginning.
ETA:
August 3, 2010
In addition to the ground search, a forensics team combing the family's brick flat for clues will focus on the front door, which was found ajar on Sunday morning, when Ms Abrahams realised her daughter was missing.
"[Whether there was] forced entry is being looked at by [the] crime scene [team]; we're gaining as much physical evidence as we can from the scene," Superintendent Cox said.
