{"id":236192,"date":"2025-10-23T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236192\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:28:09","slug":"police-to-search-nsw-river-for-remains-of-1990-murder-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236192\/","title":{"rendered":"Police to search NSW river for remains of 1990 murder victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police seeking the remains of a 16-year-old girl murdered in 1990 will begin a two-day search of the Nambucca River in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"New South Wales\">New South Wales<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffColleen Walker-Craig was last seen in Bowraville between Thursday, September 13, and Saturday, September 15, in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Her family reported her missing, and her weighted-down clothes were later found in the Nambucca River.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/85bf3154-d5ce-4f41-ba25-c3ad9195a4fe.jpeg\"   alt=\"Bowraville murder victim Colleen Walker-Craig, who was 16 when she died. (9NEWS)\"\/>Bowraville murder victim Colleen Walker-Craig, who was 16 when she died. (9NEWS)<\/p>\n<p>Her body\ufeff was never recovered, but the state coroner found that Colleen had died and had most likely been murdered.<\/p>\n<p>The new search will focus on two key sections of the N\ufeffambucca River.<\/p>\n<p>Today, investigators will look at the area beneath Wilson Bridge in Macksville.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/50a749c5-446c-4883-a92b-f3a9c112aea5.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Police will search parts of the Nambucca River today and tomorrow. (Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, the focus will shift to a section of the river found behind private property on Park Road in Bowraville, which is not accessible to the public.<\/p>\n<p>A $1 million reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for Colleen&#8217;s murder remains in place, as well as for information leading to the location and recovery of Colleen&#8217;s remains.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"online\">online<\/a>.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police seeking the remains of a 16-year-old girl murdered in 1990 will begin a two-day search of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-236192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}