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Update
October 27, 2018 14:51:27
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Police want to hear from tourists who took pictures of Rex Lookout over Wangetti Beach last Sunday. (ABC News: Kristy Sexton-McGrath)
Police are looking for an alleged family close to Wangetti Beach the day Toyah Cordingley was found dead in the far north of Queensland.
Key points:
- Two adults and two children were seen leaving the beach near the crime scene
- Police would like to know if the family saw anything suspicious
- Crime Stoppers Received More Than 400 Calls Related to Murder
Police have completed the search for clues on the beach, while she continues to search for the 24-year-old murderer, claiming to want to hear testimony from anyone who took pictures in the area at that time.
Mrs. Cordingley was dressed in a bikini and was walking her dog on the beach when she was attacked and murdered last Sunday.
His body was found early the next day.
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Toyah Cordingley was attacked and killed at Wangetti Beach. (Provided: Queensland Police Service)
Detective Inspector Sonia Smith said the police were eager to hear members of a family who could have picnics in the area.
"We have information about the fact that there were two adults and two children and that they left the beach around 1:20 pm," she said.
"We are eager to talk to them to see what they have seen."
Inspector Smith also urged residents of the Cairns area to pay close attention to the people around them.
"Is there anyone they know who has unexplained injuries, someone who has movements impossible to explain, last Sunday and someone who can not have his clothes?"
She said that the police had completed the forensic examination of the beach, but that the results would take a long time to deal with.
"Now that the beach is open again, if someone uses this beach and finds something of interest, can not he touch the object and call the police."
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Detective Inspector Sonia Smith said that they still needed the help of the public. (ABC News: Kristy Sexton-McGrath)
The police have spent a lot of resources searching for Ms. Cordingley's killer.
Large digital signage through Cairns flash, inviting anyone with information to call the police.
Forensic officers combed a large part of the beach and filmed it with drones, while police divers searched the nearby ocean.
CrimeStoppers has received more than 400 calls offering information relating to the investigation.
The organization today held exhibitions in two key areas, namely the crime scene and Rusty's markets.
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A Crimestoppers stand near Wangetti Beach asking the public for help. (ABC News: Kristy Sexton-McGrath)
Margaret Cochrane, president of Cairns CrimeStoppers, said that Cordingley frequently spends the weekend at the fruit and vegetable market and was last seen there at around noon on the day of her badbadination.
"We have a pamphlet that we handed to the merchants, they may remember her, they might remember having served her last weekend," she said. .
"There was maybe one of the suspects hanging around her at the stall.
"You can never know what little piece of information could help and help in the police investigation."
Earlier this week, residents of the small coastal community were invited to voluntarily submit DNA samples.
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Toyah Cordingley, 24, whose body was found at Wangetti Beach, north of Cairns, in the far north of Queensland on October 22, 2018. (Facebook: Toyah Cordingley)
Police continue to seek the help of the public while the investigation continues.
They want tourists who may have taken pictures of Rex Lookout, to the scene of the murder, examine their vacation photos.
They are also looking for video footage taken between Kewarra Beach and the Port Douglas exit between noon and 7 pm last Sunday.
The police also asked people to review all the photographs taken that day from the Rex Range Lookout Lookout towards Wangetti Beach.
Topics:
murder and manslaughter,
police,
criminality,
law-crime-and-justice
Cairns-4870,
qld,
Wangetti-beach-4871,
Brisbane-4000
First posted
October 27, 2018 14:38:47
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