2GB
https://youtu.be/UmVi7aaUv1Y
Interviewer: And what was the time between when you last him and when you realized he was missing?
FM: Ummm .. there’s a big gjassy grassy clump of grass and I thought maybe he’s hiding in that, and I raced down there and I raced back up again and I think Mum must have heard me yelling out for William because she’s standing up and I walk back around to where we were sitting and she’s standing and I just said “is he here?” and she said “why would he be here?” and I said “well, I can’t find him” and she said “what do you mean, why can’t you find him?” and I said “he’s gone”
Interviewer: So just a matter of minutes from when saw him to when he was gone, you must have thought he has to be within 50 metres of where you were?
FM: Yes, less than, uh *launches into story about a shopping centre*
Gets back to where Mum had said “where’s he gone”
FM: we raced inside and we pulled open every wardrobe we pulled open every cupboard, we went back around the house again, I just have gone around that house about ten times. We went inside and outside that house I can’t believe how many times and then Mum said, I think Mum said “you go down and I’ll stay up here”. And then I went down the road and I saw one of the neighbours who was just absolutely fabulous, one of the first neighbours I saw. She just said, I asked her if she’d seen a little boy in a Spider-Man suit cause she had a play area in her house, and I thought maybe he was attracted to that if he’d wandered off. And she said “no no no, nothing, I don’t know anything” And so she said “I’ll come and help you”. Searching the estate and then we went right down the end and there was another neighbour who came out to help and we were all searching and yelling out for William yelling out for William and I thought, ok, he’s not here. He’s not here. And I raced back home, my husband had got home from his meeting, and I said is William with you and he looked at me as if to say what a really stupid question of course he’s not with me, where is he. And you went off and you just raced around trying to find him. I went back down with one of the neighbours, and we kept looking we kept looking, down to the back of the bus stop and back, all through the houses. And then I thought ok, I’ve gotta call 000. And that’s when I went back upstairs, and I made that call.
No drive.
60 Minutes:
abbreviated version
“Playing on that patio area, Mum and I were sitting in two chairs, and then he jumped off”.
“And he was playing on the, the grass”
“And then what he did was, he went um just around to the right”.
“I could still hear him, he was still roaring”
“Umm, and then umm… nothing”
“That was it. That’s my last sound”.
“I couldn’t hear him, I couldn’t see him”
(no birds, wind etc)
(All the William where are you stuff)
interviewer talks about kids liking to wait for daddy’s car:
“And I remember saying can you see Daddy’s car. And there was no answer, there was no answer. There was no answer”
(when, when did you say this?)
“And then I raced back around, and I said to Mum, he’s not there, he’s gone”
“And she said what do you mean he’s gone, and I said he’s he’s disappeared he’s not there”
Racing around the house, couldn’t see him, where are you.
Father arrives home. Neighbours, searching, 000 call.
No drive.