New Zealand - Jefferie Hill, 2, Tokoroa, 28 Sept 1968

[Kat]

A missing persons page for Jefferie

http://www.missing.org.nz/groups/profile/19

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5558719/Toddler-missing-for-40-years-still-alive
Last updated 05:00 03/09/2011

A Hamilton cold case investigator is hot on the trail of evidence that suggests a toddler who went missing from outside his Tokoroa home more than 40 years ago was wrongly concluded to have drowned.

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/200451/cold-case-dig-proves-fruitless
Wed, 7 Mar 2012

Nothing of interest has been found by police, who have spent much of the day digging up the rear garden of a residential property in Tokoroa

http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/news/44-year-old-cold-case-could-boy-be-alive/1298429/
Friday March 09, 2012 2:27PM NZDT

The family of a toddler who went missing more than 40 years ago believe he could still be alive - a theory reinforced by a police excavation of a property in Tokoroa.

Picture of Jefferie is from last link in this post. His picture is held by his sister.

Come home soon.

 

[Kat]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/6535952/Police-dig-to-solve-44-year-old-cold-case

Another picture of Jefferie from link above. He reminds me of my own brother at that age.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Interesting never heard this case before there is another case that haunts me near where i live

http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rc...=S6Bk8aNA8Fldzq_tLtjehg&bvm=bv.48705608,d.aGc

 

[lemmon714]

Jefferie Hill was nearly 3 when he disappeared, presumed drowned.

All he left behind was a red plastic toy spade that floated on top of the winding, slow-moving Matarawa Creek, in Tokoroa.

Almost five decades on, his mother Jo Reynolds, nee Hill, is still desperate for closure; for answers on what happened to her beloved wee boy.

Jefferie went missing on a cold day in September 1968.

He had gone outside to play in the neighbour's sandbox with his little friend, Reynolds said.

It was 2-year-old Karen Stubbs who raised the alarm that Jefferie was missing.

She told her mother Colleen Stubbs and Jefferie's older brother Robert Hill, who was playing on his tricycle, that Jefferie had fallen into the creek.

Karen would be the last person to see Jefferie alive.

Fifty years on, missing toddler Jefferie Hill's fate still a mystery

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Jefferie...it's now been 52 years.

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Jefferie as we head toward the 55th anniversary...

 

[Caring1]

November 14, 2024

The mother of a little boy who disappeared in Tokoroa in 1968 says she doesn't know if she wants human remains discovered yesterday to be him.

Jefferie Hill was almost three when he went missing from the back of his parents' home in Ferguson St, where the Matarawa Creek wound past.

Mother of 1968 missing toddler Jefferie Hill isn't sure she wants remains found

"It's a moment where you want to know and yet you don't want to know."

www.rnz.co.nz