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    Siriyakorn "Bung" Siriboon, 13, Missing Since 2 June 2011, Vic., Australia (suspected abduction)

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    This poor kid went missing almost 3 yrs ago. Police were certain it was an abduction very early on in the investigation & it's been huge in the Victorian media because of similarities to an unsolved series of abductions, rapes & murders of pre-teen girls, committed 20 years ago by an offender dubbed "Mr Cruel" - some of those girls have never been found.



    This article is really long but this is a case that's had a HUGE amount of media coverage & this one article covers a story that might otherwise require 30-40 articles to explain chronologically. It's split across posts to fit

    ( I'll post a short version & links etc after this article so if you don't want to read this much detail, just scroll down til you see pix).


    Agony goes on for family of missing girl Siriyakorn 'Bung' Siriboon

    by: Andrew Rule From: Herald Sun December 01, 2011 12:00AM

    SIX months after Siriyakorn Siriboon set off for school her mother is still waiting for her to come home. ANDREW RULE reports on one family's grief beyond words.

    THE last time her family see her, she turns on the doorstep and says "Bye, Mum, see you later." It is about 8.20am on a Thursday, six months ago tomorrow.

    She crosses the street to the footpath and heads towards high school, a few minutes' walk.

    Two doors down, a neighbour glances through his living room window and glimpses her: a 13-year-old girl in a blue and white uniform and blue rain jacket, carrying a dark backpack.

    She moves from right to left across his vision - for about three seconds, he later calculates.

    Then she vanishes.

    Whoever sees her next, you'd think, is the only person who knows what happened to her, and why. The only one who knows if she is alive or dead.

    Her family call her Bung, a short name standing in for the one on her passport, Siriyakorn Siriboon. She is a good girl: diligent, punctual, polite, never wags school.

    People trust her, so when she doesn't turn up in her year 7 class that June morning, everyone assumes she has stayed home because of illness. It's the first week of winter, what teachers call "flu season", when kids wake up feeling awful and can hardly drag themselves out of bed.

    If Bung were a troubled child, a repeat truant, teachers might suspect she is off on an escapade of her own. But she is none of those things, so no one worries until later.

    At 3.30pm her mother, Vanidda Pattison, realises her daughter isn't home at the usual time. She calls her name from the kitchen, wonders why there's no answer.

    About 4pm, the telephone rings. Bung's stepfather, Fred Pattison, answers. It's Dyamai, Bung's school friend. She asks to talk to Bung about what to wear to football practice next day.

    It's the first Fred has heard that Bung wants to play football, as well as training for athletics and the school's rock eisteddfod.

    "Why didn't you talk to her at school?" he asks, puzzled.

    The girl hesitates. Bung wasn't at school, she says.

    That's how the torment starts. First they go to the school, Boronia Heights Secondary College. The principal, Kate Harnetty, is still in her office, working late.

    Harnetty has seen Fred Pattison at school functions and noticed he is calm and polite, and shows more interest in his stepdaughter's progress and behaviour - both good - than many fathers do.

    She doesn't know his wife as well because Vanidda, only four years out of Thailand, isn't confident speaking English with strangers.

    The Pattisons try not to panic. They look in the school library to make sure Bung isn't there. The principal checks the year 7 roll then finds a teacher who confirms Bung hasn't been in class.

    That's when Kate Harnetty knows they have reason to worry. Bung doesn't "fit the mould" of kids who play truant or run away from home, as she later recalls. "She's just a sweet little girl. It was out of character."

    She urges them to go straight to the police.

    Minutes later, Fred Pattison walks into the police station in Dorset Rd. On the wall in the waiting area is a poster that says: When someone goes missing a day spent waiting is a day lost.

    It's true enough but truth does not always equal reality in police work. The reality is that more than 35,000 people go missing in Australia every year, and more than half of them are under 18. The overwhelming majority turn up safely in hours, days or weeks.

    But it's almost impossible to guess which tiny proportion of missing person reports could turn into something more sinister.

    The policewoman who appears from behind the one-way mirror is polite and sympathetic but has no reason to think the report is different from the many that come to nothing.

    In any case, the search has to start close to home, with friends and family that parents can reach quicker than the police can.

    Fred has been up all day doing chores after night shift as a fitter in a Scoresby confectionery factory. Normally, he would take a nap and go to work. Instead, he calls his boss to say he won't be in.

    In fact, it turns out he will not be back for a month.

    Fred and Vanidda stay up all night. First, they visit Bung's friend Dyamai to get the names and telephone numbers of Bung's other friends. They call or visit each one.

    Every blank they draw deepens their fear - and sends widening ripples of alarm. Late-night phone calls between other parents, school friends and teachers draw more people into the puzzle but no one knows the answer.

    By 8am the Pattisons are back at the school, distraught, waiting to talk to the one classmate they missed overnight, but the girl knows nothing.

    Kate Harnetty sees the overnight change in the couple: the hollow eyes and anguished faces. She urges them to go back to the police.

    As soon as they leave, she calls the station to make sure they are taken seriously. With Fred Pattison's full-arm tattoo, cropped hair and tiny plait, she knows he looks "a bit like a merchant seaman" and fears he and Vanidda might be dismissed as trouble-prone time wasters.

    As Pattison says later, he "hassles the police a bit" that morning. At that point it's still not unreasonable to suspect that Bung has run off with someone, and is now nervous about coming home.

    Her parents are desperate to believe this, but too fearful to wait and do nothing. They make up simple posters: a snapshot of a smiling Bung in school uniform.

    One of Fred's workmates helps put up the posters all over the district, first on power poles along the route Bung walked to school, then further away, in shops, bus stops and railway stations.

    About 2pm, Knox Leader trainee reporter Erin Michael is buying a coffee in the Boronia Mall when she sees Fred Pattison taping up a poster. She introduces herself.

    "He seemed quite vague and shocked," she would recall. "He came over to the office. He was pretty emotional." Half an hour later she puts the story online. That night, the Herald Sun picks it up. So as day two ends, the mystery is public - but deepening.

    With every hour, the Pattisons grow more fearful. They put up posters all weekend.

    By Monday, June 6, Knox detectives are on the case. A police spokesman concedes they have not "ruled out abduction". It's the first time the spectre of kidnapping is officially raised.

    Inevitably, there are false leads and false hopes. On Tuesday, June 7, the trail is muddied when a schoolboy reports he saw Bung in Chandler Rd after school on the day she disappeared.

    It turns out to be another Asian girl in school uniform. A security guard thinks he saw Bung at the railway station. He is wrong, too.

    On Thursday, June 9, police set up an "information caravan" along the route Bung usually walked to school. People trickle in to talk. There is speculation but not much information. Nothing leads anywhere.

    Detectives need a door to knock on, a car to trace. At the end of the first week they have neither. Twenty-five weeks later, they still haven't.

    IT is just after 8.20am on a recent Thursday, much the same as the morning Bung walked out the door of the little house halfway along Elsie St. This is where suburbia meets the bush.

    Cockatoos, magpies, crows and parrots squabble in the trees that fill the big post-war house blocks next to the Dandenongs. It's more Neighbours territory than the place for a horror story.

    In the cream brick veneer at No.55, Vanidda Pattison is packing. Months of waiting for the news she dreads have taken a toll, though she tries to mask unspeakable fears with animated conversation, smiles and laughs.

    She stays busy, but when she stops for a photographer to take a picture, the camera does not lie. Frozen in every frame, her eyes are full of pain.
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    cont'd ... from
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    Reliving the moment she realised Bung hadn't got to school that day, she holds her face in her hands. A policewoman, herself a mother, puts her arm around Vanidda as she talks of the last time she saw her girl.

    When Fred got home from nightshift about 7.30am that Thursday, Vanidda was cooking chicken curry soup and rice for breakfast. "Bung had that breakfast," explains Vanidda. "Then she took some for lunch. The canteen is not nice for her."

    They almost always refer to her in the present tense and cling to the belief she is alive, somewhere, somehow. It's a way to cope with a loss beyond words.

    Vanidda is small, wiry from a lifetime's hard work and the simple diet she has followed most of her 42 years. She grew up in Ubon Ratchathani province in northeast Thailand. Her first marriage ended when her two girls were small, and her parents helped raise them while she worked. Now she is going home to see her mother and father.

    She and Fred own a house in Thailand and were intending to move there after Bung finished school. Now everything is on hold.

    Stacked on the couch are gifts for her family and the Buddhist temple in their home town. Early on the day Bung went missing, Vanidda and Fred had gone to the Bunnings store in Bayswater to buy roofing screws and sensor lights to donate to the temple. They believe in karma. Faith helps them get through each cruel day.

    Vanidda met Fred in Melbourne when she was on holiday seven years ago. He spoke passable Thai, having spent a year there on long-service leave and studying the language at home.

    His interest in Buddhism grew from his dedication to sado karate, which he took up at 15 and has practised ever since.

    He admires the Thai work ethic and family values. Vanidda - he calls her "Nid" for short - "is a hard worker", he says. "It's a cultural thing. A good thing."

    Together they have transformed the garden of the house they bought from an old couple four years ago. They also pounded the streets "letter boxing" retail catalogues together to earn extra money and keep fit.

    Pattison understands self-reliance and hard work. He grew up in a battling family of nine around Queenscliff and Portarlington, then moved to Melbourne as an apprentice fitter at Carlton United Breweries, aged 17.

    He still barracks for Geelong; Cats premiership posters are taped next to the front door but he's not had much appetite for footy since June 2.

    It's the same with the fishing boat in the yard. He bought it last year but has never used it. He is holding down his job, thanks to an understanding employer, but the rest of his time is devoted to holding the family together, including Bung's big sister, Siriporn, now 20, a student at Swinburne.

    Pattison is calm and self-possessed. He doesn't swear or bluster to mask his anguish, and he looks people in the eye. It's clear why investigators soon decided he had nothing to do with his step-daughter's disappearance.

    He bears no grudges that detectives questioned them so closely. That is how it goes when someone vanishes. Family members and friends have to be cleared first. Then neighbours and workmates, outwards in widening circles. But if that doesn't work, then what? That's the question the Puma Taskforce faces.

    'What we've got," says an exasperated Detective Superintendent Brett Guerin, "is a big bag of fresh air."

    Police are rarely so frank in public. But the dozen investigators recruited for the taskforce in October know what their boss means. This could be the toughest assignment of their careers.

    Not only do they have no leads, they are starting behind scratch because of a false one.

    On June 29, almost four weeks after Bung disappeared, a Boronia primary pupil was late for school. Asked why, she lied that a grey-haired man wearing a surgical mask had tried to force her into a green Holden station wagon.

    Trapped in the lie, the girl did not confess for more than a week. The nonexistent kidnapper and his green Holden had been widely publicised because the supposed "victim" was also an Asian girl

    and the scene was near where Bung lived.

    The hoax overshadowed a genuine abduction attempt a week earlier. On June 21, a middle-aged man with greying hair and decayed teeth had tried to drag a 16-year-old schoolgirl into a blue sedan in Bedford Rd, Ringwood East.

    Investigators don't want to pin their hopes on the Ringwood incident but they can't ignore the fact it happened only 10 minutes from Elsie St, less than three weeks after Bung disappeared.

    When the man with the bad teeth and blue car is found, he will have the taskforce's undivided attention. Meanwhile, no one wants to say they are most likely looking for a killer. Even though the homicide squad is running the taskforce, and no matter how likely abduction and murder might seem, investigators must keep an open mind.

    Without leads, they have to consider all possibilities - even the faint one that Bung left voluntarily, which would mean no crime was committed. It's true some teenagers stage their disappearance but they almost always have reasons to leave home and not return. The investigators are sure none of those usual sordid reasons applies.

    Bung was happy at home and school. Her behaviour was good, her attitude consistent and did not change in the days or weeks before she disappeared.



    One by one, the taskforce has crossed off theories.

    Bung had Facebook friends, just as several million others do. Police have combed the family's computers but found nothing to show she struck up contact with anyone outside her own group.

    She left her mobile phone home the day she disappeared but investigators soon worked out that was not unusual.

    She had wanted to go to school earlier than usual one day, but police found she had wanted to meet her friend Dyamai, not anyone suspicious.

    They are left with a likely scenario that she was lured or forced into a car without being seen. If that did happen, no one wants to speculate on what happened next. But murder isn't an automatic assumption. There have been well publicised cases overseas of girls being abducted and imprisoned, some for years. A copycat crime can't be ruled out.

    Neither can police rule out the possibility Bung was abducted by human traffickers to use or sell into what police call "sexual servitude". They checked eastern suburbs brothels after a tip-off that a young Asian girl had been seen in one, and would do the same again. Thai nationals have been involved in sexual slavery scandals in Australia and a Thai speaker might have been able to lure Bung into a car.

    These are the bleak possibilities that desperate parents cling to: that a sexual psychopath or a human trafficker has taken their child and kept her alive.

    The Puma Taskforce has set up in a big unused room at Glen Waverley police station. With its whiteboards, computers and telephones, it could be any tired suburban office but for one thing: the work here is deadly serious.

    The office is within easy reach of Boronia, but far enough away to suit anyone who wants to talk to police without being seen by neighbours or relatives. The success or failure of a long investigation could rest on such subtleties.

    The investigators have to look for clues they are not sure exist. It is like sifting tonnes of beach sand in the hope of finding a tiny mystery object that might have been lost somewhere else, or not at all. Persistence and concentration is everything.

    First, they have to interview, or re-interview, about 400 householders who live along the streets between the Pattisons' house and the school, then work outwards. They have to trace every conceivable visitor - tradesmen, salesmen, delivery drivers, postmen - who might have been in the district in June.

    They have to find every registered sex offender and test his alibi for that day. Next, they have to identify suspects who might never have come under notice before.

    To do this they need help from people who can suggest anyone that might have had an excuse or an opportunity to be near Boronia on June 2.

    They need people to confide a suspicion or a secret about a relative, neighbour or workmate. The police would never put it so bluntly but their message could be reduced to this: The vanished girl is someone's sister, someone's daughter - she could have been yours. And whoever took her is somebody's brother, someone's son. Someone knows him.

    It takes less than five minutes to walk to the eastern end of Elsie St from the Pattisons' house. About the same to cross Albert St and walk up Harcourt St to the high school's back gate.

    It looks so normal to an outsider but life has changed here. Children who used to walk to and from school themselves now go in pairs or groups. Parents eye slow-moving cars suspiciously. Many more now juggle their lives to drive children to and from school.
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    Bob and Nancy Downward have lived at 73 Elsie St since 1956. They used to see Bung walk past most days, head down.

    Since June, the Downwards pick up their 11-year-old grand-daughter from school every day and look after her until her mother finishes work. "Once, you knew everybody," says Bob, a retired brickie. "Now there's some weird people out there."

    Down the road at No.55, Fred Pattison runs through the options they allow themselves to think about.

    "Maybe someone befriended her over time," he says quietly. "Maybe someone who spoke Thai. Or maybe someone just grabbed her and put her in a car. She was such a lovable kid. Maybe they took her to raise as their own. All the monks and mediums we speak to tell us she's alive and wants to come home. We can't and we don't think anything else but that. We still think she's coming home."

    Every school day, Bung walked past the pole on the corner of Harcourt and Albert streets. It has dozens of rusting staples in it from notices put up over the years - for lost pets, garage sales and the like.

    Now there is only one poster on the pole, one the Pattisons put up that first fearful day.

    Bung's photograph has faded, and wind, rain and insects have invaded the clear plastic cover. The paper is frayed so the telephone numbers are no longer readable. There is something pathetic about it that brings a lump to a stranger's throat.

    Opposite the Pattisons' house lives an Elsie St lifer that everyone calls Trudy. Like Bung, she was a migrant girl. She arrived from Holland in the 1950s and has lived here ever since.

    Trudy loved the way her new neighbours Fred and Vanidda turned the tired block across the road into a pretty garden, with a new fence, gurgling pond and flower beds. Now she finds it heartbreaking.

    The old woman looks across the street at the Pattisons' car parked in the drive, two "Missing" posters still taped to the back window. They, too, are starting to fade. "I pray for her every night," she says, and her eyes glisten with tears.

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    http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-o...-1226655119502

    2013 - Recent developments
    Police test alibis to crack two-year-old Siriyakorn 'Bung' Siriboon mysteryANGUS THOMPSON HERALD SUN JUNE 02, 2013 3:17PM

    The second anniversary of the disappearnce of Siriyakorn "Bung" Siriboon. Stepfather Fred Pattison and Detective inspector John Potter spoke to the media. Picture: Scott Chris Source: Herald Sun

    INVESTIGATORS are re-examining alibis of people who were scrutinised over missing teen Siriyakorn "Bung" Siriboon.

    On the second anniversary of the Boronia schoolgirl's disappearance Detective Inspector John Potter appealed to the public to come forward with information.

    "We're attempting to trace or track still a number of registered sex offenders from the day Bung went missing.

    "We also have a lot of information that we have to follow through that members of the public have contacted us with, and we're hopeful that amongst all that we will be able establish a suspect," Det Insp Potter said, He said investigators would hone in on a number of sex offenders whose alibis remained unestablished.

    "We're looking at the obvious immediate vicinity and neighbouring suburbs to Boronia. So we're looking at in excess of some 200 registered sex offenders and we'll continue to examine their movements until we can establish any link.

    "The other part of the strategy is to follow down comprehensively any piece of information we receive from the public," Det Insp Potter said.

    An information can has also been set up at Boronia Central shopping centre for members of the public to speak to police.

    Bung's stepfather, Fred Pattison, said his life had been put on hold as he and his wife, Vanidda, waited for find out what happened to the then 13-year-old.

    "She's still alive, she's out there somewhere. Like the police say, somebody knows what's going on, somebody knows where she is and somebody knows what's happened. We just want that person to stand up and come forward and say what's going on," Mr Pattison said.

    "The only sort of thing we have thought is somebody's taken her against her will," Mr Pattison said.

    "She's always such a, you know, loveable thing, it's hard to comprehend that anyone would actually want to hurt her and stuff like that.

    "There's a lot of sort of weird, crazy, bad people around there. I know, and I'm not being unrealistic, that it couldn't happen, but I have to believe that once they know what she's like they treat her with some sort of dignity and respect."

    Man quizzed over Bung death dies in jump

    What sighting tells us

    Bung was 130m from home from kidnapper struck

    Mr Pattison, whose wife Vanidda is with family in Thailand, has had to cope with the scrutiny of police and the public.

    "I can't control what other people think," he said.

    "As I say, some people have different ideas on life and what can be done.

    "I was scrutinised, being the stepfather and everything. I was scrutinised, investigated, you know.

    "People saying things; people still ring up maybe saying things. It all gets proven wrong, so I have no control over what people think or what people say. I don't let it get to me.

    "I know who I am. I know what I've done and what I haven't done. And for what other people want to say, I know in myself that I'm a good person. I have done nothing wrong ... "

    Torment of empty seat at the table

    Mr Cruel link ruled out



    Mr Pattison also revealed:

    HIS wife cries at night for her daughter's return,

    THEY are clueless about what happened to Bung,

    BUDDHIST monks, who believe Bung is alive, have guided the family, and

    THE discovery of three women abducted in the US had given him hope.

    Mr Pattison said there was no choice but to hold on to hope she would be found.

    "For myself, it feels like, 'When are we going to get something? When are we going to get some sort of answer?' When there's nothing there it's a bit frustrating, a bit tedious," he said.

    "They're (police) doing everything they can, I guess.

    "I just wonder, you know, what's going on? Where is she? Why is there nobody that has said anything? Why is there nobody that knows anything? There's been a few little leads that have turned into nothing.



    "We still believe she's in the country and not too far away. It's just a feeling that we have. Someone's keeping it all very hidden and hushed away in a place where you can have someone in the back of your house where people can't find (her)."

    Detectives have been re-checking the alibis of people who have come under scrutiny during the inquiry.

    The probe has looked into hundreds of sex offenders since Bung disappeared on the way to school at Boronia Heights College on June 2, 2011. Suspects have been identified but eventually ruled out.

    Homicide squad head detective Inspector John Potter said: "We are not going to solve this on our own. We need the community's help.

    "Someone knows what happened to Bung and we are asking them to come forward."

    Officers will run an information caravan today from 10am-noon outside the Boronia Central K-Mart, then the Woolworths supermarket at Boronia Junction shopping centre from noon-2pm.

    - with Mark Buttler, Anthony Dowsley

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    This article has a series of vids at the link too
    Hunt goes on for missing schoolgirl Siriyakorn 'Bung' SiriboonPATRICK CARLYON HERALD SUN AUGUST 14, 2013 10:40AM


    SES and Police search an area in the Old Jones Creek Basin. Picture: Norm Oorloff Source: HeraldSun

    The search for answers started with a grisly promise. A policeman stood hunched in a creek bed with a sealed plastic bag.

    Inside the bag appeared to be a bone.

    It was a tick after 9am. Over the next hour, there would be more bags and more bones.

    It was 26 months since Bung vanished on the five-minute walk to school in Boronia.

    Police silent over arrest rumours

    Was this the start to mapping the end of her life, here in Old Joes Creek Retarding Basin, where the whine of chainsaws yesterday conspired with the toll of a nearby school bell?

    Apparently not. The bones were animal, explained Detective Inspector John Potter, a few hours later.

    As for the excavator, bobcat, cyclone fencing, cadaver dogs, police officers and dozens of searchers behind him?

    Do not assume the police were responding to "credible information", he said.


    SES and Police search an area in the Old Jones Creek Basin. Picture: Norm Oorloff

    Indeed, as if to tamp down expectations, Potter opened up new possibilities when he floated the "reward" word.

    By dusk yesterday, kids scrambled in the tiny playground across the road.

    Creek search shows new development

    Joggers and dog walkers discovered the reserve and walking path were locked away for another night.0:37

    Bung's mother, Vanidda, would again go to sleep not knowing.

    Some passers-by were curious - after all, a 13-year-old girl vanished one morning within 130m of her school, seconds from a road that sends drivers batty for its peak-hour congestion, in a suburb of children's chatter and birdcalls.

    There have been no comparable abductions before or since. Bung was here, then she wasn't. All we now know is that we still don't know.

    Police comments don't add up

    No physical evidence so far uncovered points to her remains being in a park 800-odd metres in the opposite direction to that she was walking the day she disappeared. In the weeks after Bung's disappearance, local parents drove or escorted children to school.

    Power poles were pasted with Bung's smiling face.

    She was a "sweet girl" with no secrets. This only heightens the puzzle.

    The world smoothes over its wrinkles - yesterday, a toddler rode her scooter, unaccompanied, along the footpath of Harcourt Rd, where Bung was last sighted.

    The outside blinds of Bung's home, however, were pulled to full extension, despite the sun's weak glare from the opposite horizon. The cars in the driveway hadn't moved in 24 hours.

    The family is said to hope that Bung is still alive.

    There has been no shortage of offers of help, not only from 900 callers to Crime Stoppers, but local residents telling searchers that dogs are let off the leash in the reserve.

    One resident yesterday said there was a big fox population in the area.

    The resident offered his own theory about Bung's fate - doesn't everyone have one? - but then he trailed off. "I just don't know," he said.

    The question is - who does?

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    Bung's Australian Missing Person's Register entry (as well as the entry it reproduces a huge number of articles/updates on her case).




    http://m.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/vanid...-1226132619975

    An open letter from Bung's Mum wtitten in 2011 -
    >> VANIDDA SIRIBOON'S OPEN LETTER

    "How is it even possible to put words down to how we are feeling?

    I just want to know, just to know that you have life, is all I ask.

    We don't need to know who you are, it doesn't matter what has happened in the past, that person who has or might know what happened to Bung.

    I forgive that person, whatever they do with me and I want them to make a decision now, for the right thing to do.

    But just to know you still have life, I just think about my daughter, she has a future and is just too young.

    Every day at home, I look; your room, all my mind and thoughts are for you.

    I think your neighbours are so important, for people and neighbours to help and not to turn a blind eye and to look out and help one another.

    My birthday is coming up and I wish my girl to come back for me, that is all I wish for my birthday present.

    I just want to know what happened, if you were a mum, try and imagine for me.

    It has been very hard, sometimes you have to step back and look at another way to look or walk forward and I have to do this every day.

    You would be my birthday present, I need you to be my present, the best present, please come back.

    Thank you every person who prayed for Bung and my family.

    Thank you so much."


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    This case is hitting the national news here again

    BUNG CASE RETURNED TO HOMICIDE SQUAD


    THE family of missing schoolgirl Siriyakorn `Bung' Siriboon is disappointed a taskforce established to find her has been shut down

    Homicide squad detectives will take charge of the investigation into the 13-year-old's disappearance after police shut down the taskforce set up to handle the high profile case.

    Her case had been investigated by the specialised Puma Taskforce for the past two years.

    Bung vanished on June 2, 2011 after leaving her home in Elsie St and setting off for the 10-minute walk to classes at Boronia Heights College.

    Detective Superintendent Tess Walsh said Bung's family had expressed their disappointment at the taskforce winding down.

    "The family, as are all the investigators, are disappointed at the closure of the taskforce and they have our absolute commitment that we are determined to keep this investigation active and provide the outcome to them that they desire,'' she said.

    "To say that we're disappointed that we haven't had a successful conclusion to this investigation is probably appropriate. We're disappointed and we're disappointed that we haven't been able to speak to the family about a successful outcome and also the community of Boronia and its surrounds.''

    The taskforce had spoken to 250 registered sex offenders, visited 1000 premises in and around Boronia and responded to more than 1100 information reports.

    The taskforce included detectives from the Homicide Squad, broader Crime Command, Eastern Region and tactical intelligence officers. It was headed by homicide detectives.


    Bung's mother Vanidda Siriboon and her stepfather Fred Pattison.

    Supt Walsh said the move did not mean Victoria Police had given up hope of finding who was responsible for the Melbourne schoolgirl's disappearance in 2011, or that they were scaling back the operation.

    "The taskforce was established to provide dedicated support to this investigation and follow up a large volume of information," she said.

    "The bulk of that work has now been done and the investigation is at a point where it can be managed by the Homicide Squad.

    Bung vanished on June 2, 2011 when she failed to attend school after leaving her home in Elsie St, Boronia at 8.20am.


    Police and SES search Old Joes Creek flood retaining basin in Boronia.

    A neighbour spotted Bung starting out on the 10-minute walk in her blue-and-white uniform and a raincoat.


    Age: 13 Gender: F Case Date: June 02, 2011 Cause of Death: Unknown What we Know: Siriyakorn (Bung) Siriboon left her home in Elsie St, Boronia at 8.20am on June 2, 2011, headed for Boronia Heights College, a few minutes walk away. The 13-year-old never made it. The alarm was raised when she failed to arrive home that afternoon. Latest Development: In August 2013, police begin extensive search of Old Joe's Creek near where Bung was last seen. In June 2012 police revealed a fresh sighting of Bung on the day she disappeared.

    Lines of Inquiry: Abduction Bung walked the same 10-minute route to school every day and was last seen wearing her blue-and-white uniform and a raincoat. She had been seen walking in Harcourt Rd, having crossed Paisley Ave, at 8.55am. What key players said:


    Another witness came forward in June last year to tell police they had seen Bung about 130 metres from her school on Harcourt Rd at 8.55am on the day she went missing.


    Missing schoolgirl Siriyakorn 'Bung' Siriboon.

    The alarm was raised when the teenager did not return home in the afternoon.

    Police conducted a five-day search for Bung at Old Joes Creek flood retaining basin in Boronia in August, but did not find anything linked to the case.

    Bung's mother, Vanidda Siriboon, and stepfather, Fred Pattison, have asked for privacy at this time.

    Bung is described as being of Thai origin, about 154cm tall, with a thin build, long dark hair and brown eyes.

    Anyone with information regarding her disappearance should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit crimestoppers.com.au.

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    Another Australian cold case arrest - our D's must be working overtime??

    This guys being treated with a great deal of scepticism though

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-1...enager/5147442

    Man says he ran over Melbourne schoolgirl Siriyakorn 'Bung' Siriboon

    By National Reporting Team's Dan Oakes Updated Tue 10 Dec 2013, 11:41pm AEDT


    Homicide squad detectives have arrested and questioned a man over the disappearance of Melbourne schoolgirl Siriyakorn 'Bung' Siriboon more than two years ago.

    The ABC can reveal that the 24-year-old local man has claimed he hit and killed the Boronia Heights College student while driving in his car on the morning she disappeared, then panicked and disposed of her body at a local reserve.

    The man - who the ABC has chosen not to name - was first arrested and interviewed in August, leading police and emergency services personnel to search the Old Joe's Creek retarding basin for a week.

    Although the search yielded nothing, homicide squad detectives told the ABC they have also seized "items of interest" from the man, and that they are being forensically tested.

    They would not describe the items, but one is believed to be the man's car.

    The man was questioned a second time in October, and was described this week by police as still a "person of interest".

    They also revealed another man was arrested and questioned last year over Bung's disappearance.

    Police stressed that the 24-year-old is not the only suspect, and again urged the public to contact Crime Stoppers with information about Bung's fate.

    The ABC revealed in October that Victoria Police was shutting down the Puma taskforce, which was set up to investigate Bung's disappearance.

    Senior police stressed that the dismantling of the squad did not mean police had scaled back the investigation or given up hope of finding whoever is responsible for Bung's disappearance.

    "We've met with Bung's family and explained to them that the investigation is still very much active and we remain committed to providing them with some answers," Detective Superintendent Tess Walsh said at the time.

    "If new information is received or the investigation gets to the stage where we need to draw on additional resources, we have the ability upscale our response if needed.

    "The taskforce detectives have worked tirelessly on this investigation and I am confident that the homicide squad will continue that and we will find out what happened to Bung."

    Task force detectives interviewed more than 250 registered sex offenders, canvassed more than 1,000 Boronia homes and investigated more than 1,100 pieces of information and reports generated from calls to Crime Stoppers
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    edited because I didn't read my own link properly. Derp.

    This has been known to Vic police for some time but they've released it for the 3rd anniversary


    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/ne...602-39cx0.html

    Police have described the newest clues in the missing 13-year-old Boronia schoolgirl Siriyakorn "Bung" Siriboon case as an ‘‘odd scenario’’.

    Homicide detectives say a young Asian girl, wearing a light, collared shirt and a dark-blue V-neck jumper, was seen in the back seat of a white EA to EF-model Ford Falcon station wagon on the morning she vanished.

    The car was reportedly being driven by a fair-skinned man in his late 50s to early 60s, who was wearing a blue singlet.

    Police have described the man as having light-brown hair, combed back into a "rock-n-roll" style. He also had a coloured tattoo on his upper left arm.

    A witness saw the car at traffic lights in Boronia Road, Boronia, facing east at the intersection of Floriston Road, just east of Dorset Road.

    The Ford was then reportedly seen driving east along Boronia Road, and through the roundabout at Albert Road.


    The missing schoolgirl's mother, Vanidda Siriyakorn, and step-father, Fred Pattison. Photo: Jason South

    Homicide Squad Detective Inspector John Potter said despite police having had access to the information for some time, they had chosen to release it on the third anniversary of Bung’s disappearance.

    Detective Inspector Potter said while investigators could not confirm the girl in the vehicle was Bung, it was a lead they were pursuing.

    "The sighting may well be completely innocent, but it is relevant to us and we need to investigate it,” Detective Inspector Potter said.

    “It’s now been three years since Bung left home and failed to arrive at school that day and has not been seen or heard from since."

    Detective Inspector Potter said the witness, who was also driving when she spotted the white vehicle before the traffic lights, felt that there was something ‘‘odd’’ about the scenario.

    ‘‘That day, there was something out of place with regard to that scenario,’’ he said.

    ‘‘We had a male Caucasian in his late 50s to early 60s driving with an Asian girl in her teens in the back seat, and, according to our information, that didn’t fit - there was something odd about that, so we believe it’s worth following up.’’

    The detective said the girl was spotted looking out the window towards other traffic.

    The sighting contradicted a previous possible sighing of the schoolgirl, which placed her in Harcourt Road, crossing Paisley Avenue, on foot about 8.55am.

    ‘‘She can’t have been in two places at once ... so we need to work out exactly what was going on here,’’ he said.

    Detective Inspector Potter said police were not placing any weight on either sighting, because ‘‘the only confirmed sighting ... was by a neighbour in Elsie Street’’ at 8.30 that morning.

    The information follows hundreds of calls police have received since Bung vanished on her way to school.

    In August last year, a 24-year-old man told police he accidentally ran over and killed the schoolgirl, then dumped her body in a nearby reserve.

    Police searched parkland near Bung’s house in August, and Old Joe’s Creek Reserve, a nearby creek bed, in October. No trace of her was found.

    The 24-year-old was interviewed again in October and remains a person of interest.

    Detective Inspector Potter said police would continue to investigate several ‘‘persons of interest’’, but that so far, no one matched the description of the Ford driver or owned a similar car.

    In October, police announced they had dismantled the taskforce created to find Bung’s killer, but detectives continued to investigate several leads.

    Bung’s family has continued to express hope for Bung’s return. Earlier this year, Bung’s stepfather Fred Pattison said her mother Vanidda received ongoing advice from Buddhist monks and mediums that their daughter was still alive.

    ’’Being a Buddhist, my wife goes to the temple and talks to monks and things like that, and they still - every medium or card reader, or person that we believe in and trust - have all said the same thing, that she’s alive somewhere.’’

    ’’She’s coming home, there’s someone out there who won’t let her go, or for some reason she can’t get home,’’ he said.

    ’’You can’t believe anything else.’’

    A $1 million reward and the chance of immunity from prosecution for information about her disappearance was announced in February


    EA Ford


    EF Ford
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    This article was from 3 years ago, but somebody posted it on the "help facebook page"
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-...18118864905011

    ETA: Duh.....nevermind. I see above that Mr. Cruel has been ruled out.
    Mr. Cruel is still an interesting theory/case.

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law...-1226939404746
    BUNG CLUES

    1 – Left home in Elsie St on June 2 2011 at 8.20am.

    2 – Seen by a neighbour on Elsie St walking east towards Albert Ave and her school, Boronia Heights College.

    3 – Unconfirmed sighting of Bung on Harcourt Rd, having crossed Paisley Ave, at 8.55am.

    4 – New information – released on third anniversary of Bung’s disappearance yesterday – that girl matching her appearance was seen looking out of the back window of White Ford Falcon, EA to EF model made between 1988 and 1996. Police say they don’t know if it was Bung but say she “cannot be in two places at once.”

    5 – Driver of car described as aged in late 50s to early 60s, light brown hair combed back in “rock and roll” style, coloured tattoo on upper left arm and wearing blue singlet.

    6 - The car was seen at traffic lights at Boronia Rd and Floriston Rd intersection, just east of Dorset Rd, before it continued east along Boronia Rd and headed straight at roundabout at Albert Ave.

    7 - More than 1200 pieces of information have been examined by police, and the alibis and movements of 250 sex offenders checked.

    8 - In December, homicide squad detectives arrested and questioned a man, 24, who earlier claimed to have hit and killed Bung while driving his car on the morning she disappeared, then panicked and disposed of her body at a local reserve.

    9 – Police spent days in August last year searching Old Joe’s Creek retarding basin but found nothing.

    10 – Police seized “items of interest” from the man, which have been forensically tested.

    11 – In February, police announced a $1 million reward and immunity for information about the missing Melbourne schoolgirl.
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    There have been new leads on this case this week, a car in particular.
    Dont really know the rules so just alerting the mods if they want to do a google search.

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    I'm glad they mentioned that the suspect had not only full sleeve tattoos but a large neck tattoo as well. My first reaction when I read the sleeve tattoo part was to scroll up to the step-father and check out the extensive tattoos on his arms. There is SO much information in this case, I couldn't get through it all, but I'm assuming they checked into him and ruled him out at this point?

    Also, I just have to say it. WTF kind of haircut does the stepfather have going on?!

    Article from 6/4 below. Apparently the mother went back to Thailand saying it was too painful to stay where they were. She recently returned for her 25 yo daughter's graduation. Also includes a timeline of the last sightings of Bung's disappearance:

    Siriyakorn ‘Bung’ Siriboon disappearance: Five years since Boronia schoolgirl went missing

    http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...ecbb83c23a4bdc

    We still hope and believe she’s alive; we have to,” Mr Pattison, Bung’s stepdad, told Knox Leader.

    “There is no evidence otherwise; it’s a feeling in our heart.”

    Anyone with information on Bung’s disappearance is urged to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

    An area in their Boronia home pays tribute to their missing daughter, set up like a Buddhist temple with candles and incense.

    But the pain of the schoolgirl’s disappearance has been too much for Mrs Pattison — she moved back to Thailand because it had been “too hard for her” living in Melbourne.

    She has recently made a trip back to Melbourne as her 25-year-old daughter graduates from university.

    Mr Pattison told the Knox Leader it felt like longer than five years since Bung disappeared.
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    maybe when the check comes next time, just throw your dick on the table and be like "if you got the check, i got dessert"

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    I have hope they'll solve this now that they've solved Quanne Diec's case. It took them 18 yrs though


    http://mydeathspace.com/vb/showthrea...)-18-years-ago

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