I think the whole PIC inquiry made this case much worse & seems to have got the town of Bathurst residents so fixated on BH , to a detriment to the case & the initial investigations & may have stopped people coming forward with info........
Here is the inquiry looking at the PIC findings.
https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/t...IC-Special-Report-re-DI-Jacob-and-DSC-Sim.pdf
OVERVIEW
1) The disappearance, and suspected murder, of Janine Vaughan, 31 years of age, and a resident of Bathurst, NSW, at the time, remains an unsolved crime. She was last seen entering a motor vehicle at approximately 4 am on 7 December 2001, after leaving a nearby nightclub in Bathurst with a group of friends. Neither the motor vehicle nor the driver thereof has ever been identified. OVERVIEW
2)The crime was investigated by a NSW Police Task Force, “Toko”, set up for that purpose, headed by Detective Inspector Jacob, an experienced and highly regarded police officer based in Sydney.
3)Initially, and for a brief period, that Task Force had included Detective Sergeant Hosemans, according to the evidence a competent police officer, who was also at the time the Deputy-Mayor of Bathurst.
4)That dual role, coupled with the fact he had been acquitted in July 2002 by a Local Court of charges arising out of an apparently drunken gathering at a local golf club, and that, according to the evidence, he was unmarried, and apparently involved in personal relationships from time to time with a number of the town’s female residents, gave rise to a great deal of rumour and innuendo concerning his alleged relationship with the missing woman.
5)Because of that rumour and innuendo, his high-profile in the Bathurst community, and the fact he was a police officer, Hosemans became the subject of a distracting and time-consuming investigation by the Task Force. That investigation concluded that, despite the rumours and innuendo to the contrary, he had never had any contact of any kind with the missing woman and was not implicated in any way in her disappearance.
6)The Task Force’s conclusions, apparently, were not sufficient to quell the local gossip concerning Mr Hosemans and the missing woman, which was still rife when the PIC arrived on the scene some years later.
7)Although he was eventually acquitted of the charges relating to the golf club incident by a Local Court, DS Hosemans was later dismissed from NSW Police apparently as a result, at least in part, of the widespread publicity given to the incident by local newspapers.
8)In 2005, some two years after the police investigation into the disappearance of the woman had been suspended due to lack of fresh evidence, an anonymous allegation was received by NSW Police alleging that the former DS Hosemans had, in effect, abducted and, by implication, murdered the missing woman.
9)The anonymous allegation was referred by NSWP to DI Jacob who assessed it as having come from the same source as prior anonymous allegations, couched as it was, in similar style and content in respect of DS Hosemans, which had been investigated by Professional Standards Command (NSW Police) and found to be without foundation.
Let me know when you are caught up 
