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August 28th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Meticulous … the hunt for clues continues at Beerwah in the search for Daniel Morcombe’s remains. Photo: Queensland Police Service
THE painstaking hunt for the remains of missing Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe bears little resemblance to high-tech TV crime shows.
It is a prolonged, labour-intensive effort that relies predominantly on wading through mud and water, sifting across a small area of swamp.
There are no short cuts and, in this case, few technologies that can match the meticulous, determined efforts of officers.
Since Brett Peter Cowan, 41, was charged two weeks ago with Daniel’s murder, hopes are high the boy’s final resting place has finally been found.
Two shoes, the same as the Globe brand Daniel, 13, was wearing when he was last seen alive in 2003, have been found in muddy bush near Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast.
Three human bones also found there are now being tested to determine if they are Daniel’s.
Searchers are keen to give Daniel’s parents Bruce and Denise what they want most, a proper funeral for their son. But after eight long years, the task they are facing is complex and difficult.
The discovery of the shoes and bones has helped refine search efforts, but with so many years having elapsed since Daniel disappeared, many factors come into play.
Patrick Faulkner, a lecturer in forensic archaeology at the University of Queensland, said: ”After about eight years, with the kind of environmental conditions in Queensland, with different kinds of animals possibly moving through the area, once the remains are fully skeletonised you’d actually expect there to be a degree of disarticulation of the skeletal elements.
”It will depend on the condition in which the body was actually in, so whether there was clothing, whether the body was wrapped, that kind of thing.”
Dr David Ranson, a forensic pathologist and associate professor at Melbourne’s Monash University, says high-tech sensing equipment, such as ground penetrating radar that can detect cavities below the surface, was unlikely to be used in swampy, scrubby areas.
”If there’s been a lot of soil disturbance, a lot of soil slippage, or flooding or that sort of thing it may or may not pick out a discrete grave,” he said.
”Across rough bush I’ve never seen it used.”
Dr Faulkner said any remains found would most likely be very fragile after so many years.
”They can be quite fragile so what you’ll probably do is hand excavation, so using shovels, trowels, that kind of thing, being a little bit more careful in terms of how the remains are located and recovered for further investigation,” he said.
AAP
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