William Tyrrell’s foster family explains why they never revealed their identities

2014

September 12th – Dressed in a Spider-Man outfit, three-year-old William Tyrrell goes missing from the garden while visiting members of his foster family on the north coast of NSW.

21st of September – Police stop searching for the missing boy after searching surrounding bushland and neighboring houses.

2015

January 20 – Police search the home and business of washing machine repairman Bill Spedding, who was said to be making repairs to the home at the time the three-year-old went missing.

Detectives take items to test, including a mattress, computer, and vehicles. They empty his septic tank.

January 23 – The washing machine repairman publicly denies any involvement in William’s disappearance, saying that he and his wife are on the verge of collapse due to the public attention.

February 19 – Homicide detectives take over the case and say it is likely that William has been kidnapped.

March 2nd – Police fruitlessly search a piece of bushland near Bonny Hills for three days after a tip-off.

April 17 – William’s foster parents speak publicly for the first time in an emotional video released by police in which they are not identified.

April 17 – The police say that the boy may have fallen victim to a pedophile network.

September 6 – The Nine Network’s 60 Minutes reveal that there were two suspicious cars parked in the street the morning William went missing.

September 12th – ‘Where’s William’ week launches a year after his disappearance.

2016

September 12th – A $1 million reward will be offered for information leading to William’s return.

2017

August 24 – William’s status as a foster child is revealed after a historic court ruling.

2018

12 June – NSW Police announce the start of a four-week bushland forensic investigation conducted by Strike Force Rosann.

14th of June – William’s grandmother scolds the police for not finding the boy after four years, claiming their latest search is ‘just for show’.

June 26 – The forensic search continues on what would have been William’s seventh birthday.

June 27 – Strike Force Rosann announces it will move the search to an 800 square meter block of bushland just 4km from where William was last seen alive.

5 June – The final search ends with Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin saying the case could soon go to a coroner.

August – Investigator Detective Superintendent Gary Jubelin and a sergeant get into a fight during a briefing.

the 13th of September – Police reveal they found a burnt-out car wreck that belonged to a former stakeholder.

December 19 – Coroners say William could still be alive and the inquest will determine whether he died or not.

2019

February – DCI Jubelin is removed from the investigation during a misconduct investigation.

March 25 – The inquest into William Tyrrell’s disappearance begins, with William’s biological and foster parents appearing over the course of a week.

The first set of inquest hearings focused on William’s family situation and the events leading up to his disappearance.

Both his foster parents and biological parents were questioned, as were neighbors who assisted in the search.

It was revealed that William’s birth parents went into hiding with him for six weeks in 2012, following a court order for children.

William’s biological father criticized the authorities for failing them.

“Authorities screwed up… The minister had a duty of care to keep William safe until he was 18. That was not the case at all.’

Be able to: DCI Jubelin leaves the police force.

June: Four charges have been filed against DCI Jubelin for violating the Surveillance Devices Act. He denies any wrongdoing whatsoever

August: The second tranche of inquest began on Wednesday, August 7

Inquest hears Bill Spedding, a NSW mid-north coast repairman and one-time stakeholder in William Tyrrell’s disappearance, met his wife for coffee around 9:30 a.m. in Laurieton, a 15-minute drive from Kendall, on the day William went missing.

They then attended a school meeting across the street to see a child in their care receive an award.

During the inquest heard how a man who claimed to have seen William Tyrrell unrestrained in the back of a speeding car the day the child went missing waited for the police to question him to tell them what he saw.

He told the inquest that he had contacted the police but had heard nothing about an interview.

It took nearly 1,000 days for him to reveal to the police what he had seen.

The coroner is ordering an urgent investigation into the final photo taken on the day William disappeared, as metadata shows the photo was taken 118 minutes earlier than originally thought.

The image has a “created time” of 7:39 a.m. and a “corrected time” of 9:37 a.m., a new document from the 2,000-page proof letter.

The corona investigation has been postponed for another eight months and the next hearing will take place in March 2020.

November 11: Deputy State Coroner releases footage of William Tyrrell and family at Heatherbrae McDonalds, on Sept. 11, 2014

February – March 2020: Gary Jubelin defends four allegations of illegally recording stakeholder Paul Savage in court

February 21st: Daily Mail Australia reveals Frank Abbott has been taken into custody for a police interview about William’s disappearance

March 2020: The corona investigation into William’s disappearance resumes, but stops with two days to go due to the coronavirus outbreak

April 6, 2020: Magistrate Ross Hudson delivers his verdict in the Gary Jubelin case

April 8, 2020: Jubelin was convicted on all four charges and fined $10,000. Former police officer says he will appeal

June 22, 2020: Police and SES launch new search for William Tyrrell near Herons Creek, where Abbott once lived

June 26, 2021: Police recognize William Tyrrell’s 10th birthday

November 15, 2021: Detectives return to Kendall after receiving new information and admit they are looking for a body. His foster parents would be interested in the case

December 15, 2021: Police reveal that a bone fragment of unknown origin has been found during the upcoming search and plans to complete the search by the end of the week

June 2022 – William Tyrrell’s foster parents are on trial for allegedly beating and grabbing a 10-year-old girl with a wooden spoon

August 22, 2022 – The foster parents are being sued for allegedly persuading someone to attend an auction and make fraudulent dummy bids on a home

October 20, 2022: The foster parents plead not guilty to unfairly obtaining financial advantage through deception in connection with the allegedly fraudulent dummy bids

November 4, 2022 – William Tyrrell’s foster mother has been found not guilty of lying to the NSW Crime Commission about allegedly beating the girl with the wooden spoon

December 1, 2022 – Bill Spedding to receive $1.48 million in damages plus interest after police falsely accused him of historic child sex charges during their search for William Tyrrell

June 27, 2023: Detectives believe there is enough evidence to possibly charge William Tyrrell’s foster mother in the boy’s 2014 disappearance