Where is William Tyrrell?

William Tyrrell was 3 years old when he disappeared from his Grandmothers house in Kendall, New South Wales, Australia.

The picture above was taken only moments before he disappeared.

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On 11th September 2014, William's parents picked him and his younger sister early up from school as they were going to make the 4 hour drive from Sydney to visit their Grandmother in Kendall. His Grandmother's house is on Benaroon Drive, which is a cul-de-sac and is directly across from bushland road, the Kendall State Forest. Around 10am - 10:25am William and his sister were playing hide and seek in the front and back garden while his Grandmother and Mother were sitting outside watching them play. His father had popped out to run some errands. William and his Mother were playing a game called "Mummy Monster" where they would chase each other around saying 'roar'. William loved this game!

His mum said to William that she was just going to go inside to make a cup of tea but she was still able to hear him playing the garden. She became concerned after she had not heard William for around 5 minutes and decided to search the garden and the house looking for him. After 15-20 minutes of looking for William, his mum called the local police to file a missing persons report for William. Police arrived at around 11.06am. His mum's last memory was that William was imitating a tigers roar while running towards the side of the home and then there was silence.

Quite often William would wait for his dad to return when he had gone out, occasionally he would walk to the end of their drive and wait for him, his mum remembers asking if 'he could see daddy's car' but she did not receive a response. Hundreds of Police and members of State Emergency Services, Rural Fire Service and just general members of public searched day and night for William. Specialist police, including the sex crimes squad formed 'Strike Force'. Motorcycles, helicopters and 200 hundred volunteers searched overnight looking in the rugged terrain around the home and police divers searched waterways and dams. Every house on the estate was searched multiple times, and detection dogs were brought in, but they could only detect William's scent in the back garden of his Grandmother's home.

William's mum remembers seeing two cars parked on the street outside, both with their driver side windows rolled down. She made the police aware of this but they held onto this information for 12 months before releasing the information to the public, by which point anyone who had those car's that may have been involved would have gotten rid of that car. The car's were described as a white station wagon and an older style grey sedan. Both the cars were unknown to all the neighbours, considering the road was a cul-de-sac it was unlikely for anyone to be driving down the road unless they lived there or was visiting someone that did. Police have marked these cars as suspicious as there is no logical reason as to why they were parked on the street. At around 9am a green or grey sedan car drove past the Grandmother's home while William and his younger sister were riding their bikes on the driveway. The car made a U turn in a neighbours driveway and drove out of the street. Another 4x4 was sighted driving out of Benaroon Drive at around 10.30am which is around the time William disappeared, the same car was also seen speeding down another Kendall street.

The police cleared William's family of any involvement in his disappearance and believed he had been abducted by a opportunistic stranger who may have a connection with a paedophile ring. It is now believed that William was not kidnaped by a member of a paedophile ring. 'A Current Affair' (An Australian current affairs program) reported that around 20 registered sex offenders were living in the surrounding area of Kendall where William went missing. A main suspect in the case is a man who had been to look at repairing that Grandmother's washing machine just a few days before William turned up. He is facing unrelated historical child sex charges in Victoria and was due to appear in court on 4th July 2016. The police had charged the man with multiple child sexual offences, including various counts of indecent assault and sexual intercourse with children between 1983 and 1985 in Victoria. The man has posted a video online denying any involvement in the disappearance of William.

Around 1,078 suspected sightings were reported to the investigation team in the first two years after William disappeared. It includes a photo taken of a man with a young boy from Queensland, who looked extremely similar to William, however 24 hours later the police received a phone call to confirm that the boy was not William. In 2015, two passengers and a member of the New Zealand-bound flight crew believed that they saw William on a plane. The police met the aircraft at the airport and it confirmed this young boy was also not William. William's parents and younger sister's identity has been hidden from the public. This made the public find the parents suspicious, why would they hide their identity? They always said for legal reasons they could not be identified. In August 2017 a judge ruled that the information could be made public and the reason the parents identity was hidden was because William is a foster child.

On 12th September 2016, the second anniversary of William's disappearance, the NSW government announced a $1 million reward for information on his whereabouts. The police have said the reward will usually be paid out as a conditional on the arrest and conviction of the offender, but the recovery of William has been added as a condition on this reward. Over 2,800 calls have been made to crime stoppers alone since William disappeared. Police have interviewed over 1,000 people in connection with the case and 11,000 documents have been created by police on the case.

William's Spiderman suit that he was wearing at the time he disappeared is a two piece outfit which is crucial information to the case as people have reported to have found this suit but they have been an all-in-one outfit. On 20th February 2016 a police spokesman said that the ongoing investigation was one of the biggest investigations being run by homicide and they have not given up hope in finding William alive.