Gerard Ross

In one case, the victim escaped. The second ended in a schoolboy’s murder and an enduring cold case. Both are unsolved. Could they be connected?

From as early as she can remember, Rebecca Ross knew that she had another sibling – a beautiful big brother who she never got to meet.

The police investigation into the Gerard Ross case has become one of the largest in the state’s history, second only to the Macro investigation into the Claremont serial killings.

Gerard Ross is the other Daniel Morcombe – snatched off the street in broad daylight, murdered and dumped in a nearby pine forest – but his killer remains free.

When Gerard Ross’s body was found, dozens of police – including the TRG – combed the Karnup pine plantation on hands and knees looking for clues that might lead to a killer.

CCTV footage from the Gull service station in Rockingham indicates that Gerard Ross was abducted from Kent Street before reaching the service station 800m away.

Horse trainer Mick Miller can’t forget how he felt the morning he came across a body in the Karnup pine forest.

It was warm and sunny the morning that Gerard Ross vanished from a deserted street in Rockingham, Western Australia.

By nightfall on that eerie spring day in 1997 the gravity of Gerard Ross’ disappearance was clear. More than 90 police and SES volunteers had scoured Rockingham’s bushland and beaches in vain.