One thing is for sure, they need to immediately seal off the area so the police dogs (when they get there) can determine which way the missing child went. Without the entire scene being contaminated.
imo
Hi South Aussie:
That day the little boy disappeared it's quite clear to me as I had lived near Foster New South Wales Mid North coast and quite regularly visited Kendall and a place of Kew where the little boy disappeared from, I had a friend a young girl at the time who was in the emergency services on the mid north coast when they were called to search for little boy there were so many searches and people concerned for the little boy that on the first probably second day and even the third day they knew the child ,was not or did not go off and his own accord , but still they continued to search for 10 plus days.
You have to remember that the police only had the foster parents and the grandmother ,as the only information that could have happened, why the child was not missing.
Foster parents alleged sighting of cars in the road outside the grandmother's house and their version of events , police know statements of a day when little boy went missing have changed with each interview.
The photo of the little boy on the deck of the second floor in the Spider-Man outfit, the last photo to be taken of him alive, look at this photo as evidence in the case,
Parts of the mid north coast the Foster Taree kew and Kendall where the little boy went missing it's referred to as God's country a lot of farms and a lot of rain good farmland ,with large amount of forests gum trees virgin forest and also newly planted areas where loggers chop down trees in large amounts ,the drive from where little boy with missing from the town goes into the mountain forests on a dirt track with a logging trucks come down the roads go up and down on some sides of the road are steep cliffs where you see trees all the way to the bottom some places 50 maybe 100 meters down trees and the ravine are perfect place to hide a body, the problem with the grass, the meaning of coast area as a problem with bindis that holiday makers go to the resorts around the area and if they're not sprayed regularly four or five times a year to get rid of the bindis, they multiply and spread everywhere. . It's the same with the houses around the area the lawns if they're not looked after the bindi's just multiply ,so if the Foster parents stated that the photo was what he wore as he ran around the house on the lawn, playing tiger with bare feet....
This does not mean that the foster parents or even the grandmother did anything wrong or covered up anything but only means they're making up stories.