Jun 26, 2018
"I heard the voice of the woman who was knocking and I knew something awful had happened. It was a voice tinged with desperation."
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“It was a knock at the door, but instinctively Lydene Heslop knew something was wrong. "It was so much more than just a knock," recalls Lydene, a 36-year-old mother of two and volunteer bookkeeper for the local tennis club, on whose accounts she was working at the time. "It was hard, insistent, a plea for help. Then I heard the voice of the woman who was knocking and I knew something awful had happened. It was a voice tinged with desperation."
That voice belonged to the mother of a missing boy, William Tyrrell, a three-year-old last seen wearing a blue and red Spiderman outfit, whose disappearance in 2014 has baffled NSW police and cast a dark and enduring pall over Kendall, a small and otherwise peaceful rural community on the NSW mid-North Coast.
William Tyrrell was last seen wearing a blue and red Spiderman outfit.
"The mother and the grandmother were standing at the door. The mother said a little boy was missing, that he was playing in the backyard up the road and hadn't been seen for about 25 minutes or so," says Lydene.
"She asked if I'd seen him, but of course, I was inside. I called out to my children, who were playing out the back, and asked if they'd seen him, but they hadn't and then all three of us started searching through the front yard, the side of the house and the backyard and the bush that borders the properties around here.
"The mother had this haunted look on her face. I remember thinking that was how I would look if one of my children went missing. At one point, we all stopped to listen because he was only a little boy and if he was in the bush, then it wouldn't have been long before he stopped and started crying. We didn't hear a thing except the wind in the trees."
BBM - NB: Two points:-
1. FFC says that William had been missing 25 minutes or so ..... this property search (from 10.30) must have been before the 000 call which was at 10.56.
2. FFGM, in her walkthrough, didn't say that she had accompanied FFC to search.