Cheryl Grimmer: The cold-case breakthrough that may bring 'some dignity' for little girl lost and her family

By Neelima Choahan
Updated March 23 2017 - 4:33pm, first published 4:26pm
Police and volunteers search for three-year-old girl, Cheryl Grimmer, who disappeared from Fairy Meadow Beach, NSW, the day before. Picture taken 13 January 1970.
SMH Picture by John Elliott

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Kidnapping, kidnapped, child, crime, abduction, abducted, ransom, black and white, history, archival, 1970s Photo: John Elliott
Police and volunteers search for three-year-old girl, Cheryl Grimmer, who disappeared from Fairy Meadow Beach, NSW, the day before. Picture taken 13 January 1970. SMH Picture by John Elliott AF086/45 Kidnapping, kidnapped, child, crime, abduction, abducted, ransom, black and white, history, archival, 1970s Photo: John Elliott

If the weather hadn't turned, three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer might never have come across the predator who snatched her from a beach on that summer's day almost 50 years ago.

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