The following is an extract from the book I Catch Killers - Gary Jubelin. Published recently in the DT.
What it indicates is GJ concluded BS wasn't involved in 2016... and BS was not the only line of enquiry at the time.
BILL is not our only line of inquiry. So far, we’ve spoken to 18 known sex offenders who live among the acre blocks and rural properties that lie within a 30-kilometre radius of Benaroon Drive, and another 60 who live further beyond it.
There seem to be so many such offenders on this stretch of the Mid North Coast. It’s as if they’ve settled on this quiet, overlooked backwater like mosquitoes.
One of them, Gavin (not his real name), is now Bill’s cellmate at Cessnock Correctional Complex where the white goods repairman is waiting for his next bail hearing. We monitor their interaction.
Both men live near each other in Kendall and both have past links to Wellington, yet it seems they have never met before.
While Bill is in the cell, I go back at him again. We launch a covert operation, the details of which are kept within our strike force and the bosses who authorise it.
It seems to work. Bill continues to insist he was nowhere near Benaroon Drive when William went missing.
That’s it, I think. He didn’t do it. On 8 June, I update the strike force’s investigation plan, to say that, accepting on the balance of probabilities, Bill was not involved in William’s abduction and we need to refocus our investigation.