June 5, 2019 rbbm.
The dismembered remains of Lee Ellen Stace were found in a shallow grave at a camping ground near her Brooms Head home in October 1997.
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''Police will re-examine numerous persons of interest, including a convicted murderer and a convicted sex offender, in connection with the 1997 death of North Coast teenager Lee Ellen Stace as investigators announce a $1 million reward for information about her death.
Lee Ellen, 16, finished a shift at Yamba Bi-Lo on Tuesday September, 2, 1997. Investigators believe she was then planning to return to the family home in nearby Brooms Head.
Lee Ellen Stace went missing from Brooms Head in September 1997. Her remains were found six weeks later.
"She was last seen at the bus stop there. Ordinarily, she would have got the bus straight back to Brooms Head. We're not 100 per cent [certain] on what happened straight after that," Homicide Squad Commander Detective Superintendent Scott Cook told reporters on Wednesday.
"It's not clear if she was hitchhiking. There have been numerous sighting of a young, 16-year-old girl in various locations. There is a suggestion she may have gotten into a green car and it may have been her on Redcliffe Beach. That location is where Lee Ellen's remains were found on 17 October, 1997," he said.
Six weeks after she went missing, campers found her remains in the Yuraygir National Park - less than four kilometres south of her home.
Investigators do not have a definite cause of death, but timber offcuts with blood-like marks found near the scene cause police to believe blunt-force trauma may have ended her life.''
''Her belongings were found strewn throughout the coastal bushland.
Now, police are offering a $1 million reward for information about her death as they re-examine what happened to her.''
