Australia Australia - Eloise Worledge, 8, Beaumaris, Vic, 12 Jan 1976

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Eloise Worledge disappeared from her Beaumaris home in 1976.

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VIDEO: Eloise Worledge disappeared from her Beaumaris home in 1976.​

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Patsy Worledge discusses the disappearance of her eight-year-old daughter Eloise who vanished from her Beaumaris home in 1976.

 

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A missing child, the botched case and the aunt who never stopped asking why

Fifty years after Beaumaris schoolgirl Eloise Worledge vanished, could new leads solve one of Australia's most haunting cold cases?

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The girl who vanished from her bed​

Fifty years after schoolgirl Eloise Worledge disappeared, could new leads solve one of Australia’s most haunting cold cases?

 

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A missing child, the botched case and the aunt who never stopped asking why

Fifty years after Beaumaris schoolgirl Eloise Worledge vanished, could new leads solve one of Australia's most haunting cold cases?

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Long Read

The girl who vanished from her bed​

Fifty years after schoolgirl Eloise Worledge disappeared, could new leads solve one of Australia’s most haunting cold cases?

It is interesting that Eloise's aunt was spoken to by detectives in December, after a gap of many years hearing nothing.

They told her they are now confident that the parents had nothing to do with it. What would prompt that to happen after 50 years? The parents would always have been forensically linked to the scene, although I don't think the police had anything of significance anyway? The only way I can think of, that would exculpate 2 persons of interest, would be the strong belief that another person did it. Do they now have information, but not enough to charge, suggesting the involvement of a known person?

The staging of the scene always seemed strange. It appeared to be quite obviously staged, in a manner that was done just to create confusion for the sake of it. Toying with investigators if you like?

There is only one other person who abducted girls from their houses and deliberately left red herrings, that I know of. That person was thought to be in his early to mid thirties in the late 80's. That would have put him at early to mid twenties in 1976. There was a 23 year old interviewed in relation to Eloise. Imagine if Mr. Cruel had been sitting right there in front of them in 1976.

 

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Could it be that someone gave a deathbed confession to someone who then told the police.
Or perhaps a deathbed confession from someone who knew but was too afraid of them to come forward.

Or maybe someone knew but was scared of the person and now that person has died and they've come forward.

 

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Could it be that someone gave a deathbed confession to someone who then told the police.
Or perhaps a deathbed confession from someone who knew but was too afraid of them to come forward.

Or maybe someone knew but was scared of the person and now that person has died and they've come forward.

Something like that must have occurred. You don't just approach a relative after so long for no reason. They must have received recent information to alter (or confirm) their long-term thinking.

I wonder if the aunt asked why they had come to that conclusion. Would they tell her, if the person who did it was dead?

 

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That's two stories in main stream media about the case in the last week.
Both from the ABC.

Maybe they're just going over some old cases.
Hopefully there is something more.

Or maybe it's leading up to the ABC doing a podcast about the case.