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The Murder Of Daniel Morcombe

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Daniel Morcombe, aged 13, was snatched from a bus stop under the Kiel Mountain Road bridge in the Woombye region of the Sunshine Coast around 2 kilometers north of The Big Pineapple on Sunday, 7 December 2003. Morcombe intended to get the 1:35 pm bus to the Sunshine Plaza Shopping Centre for a haircut and to purchase Christmas presents for his family, yet he never returned.
Witnesses announced seeing Morcombe at roughly 2:10 pm on the Nambour Connection Road under the Kiel Mountain Road Bridge. The bus he planned to get had broken down a couple of kilometerss before his stop, and was behind timetable. At the point when the substitution bus had arrived, Morcombe hailed the bus, however it went ahead without stopping. The driver of the transport …show more content…

He experienced childhood in the Brisbane suburb of Everton Park, where friends and family depicted him as a "standard person". He dropped out of school in year ten and started working odd jobs around Brisbane. He was an ongoing drug user, who initially attempted Marijuana at eleven years old and consistently used amphetamines, cocaine and LSD. Cowan's first attack conviction came at 18 years old, on 5 December 1987, when he was accused of sexual assaulting a seven-year-old. Cowan had been performing group benefit at a recreation center when he lured the kid into a bathroom. He was charged in 1989 and served three years in jail. On 28 September 1993, he sexually assaulted a six-year-old child outside a Darwin band stop, leaving the child brutally beaten in a bush. Cowan was condemned to seven years in jail and served four and a half years of his aggregate sentence. After his discharge, he moved to the Sunshine Coast, turning into a changed Christian and routinely going to chapel. He wedded Tracey Moncrieff in 1999 and the couple had a child before separating in 2004. Cowan was living in the town of Beerwah around the time of Morcombe's vanishing. Right off the bat in the investigation, Cowan turned into a suspect because of his criminal history and his close occupancy in which Morcombe was most recently

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