The Boy in the Blue Cap: The Gerard Ross Story — Part Three: The Pines

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The Boy in the Blue Cap: The Gerard Ross Story — Part Three: The Pines (Rated PG)

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

“It wasn’t a good feeling with what; it wasn’t a good feeling that’s all,” he said.

Miller, who was living at Karnup, rode his horses through the pines daily.

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“That’s why I liked being up there, the pine forest was very good work on their legs through the sand,” he said.

But the path he took on the morning of Tuesday, October 28, 1997 – two weeks after Gerard Ross vanished from Rockingham without a trace – was different.

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If you have any information about the abduction or murder of Gerard Ross please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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