Monday, 14th June 2004.
Search for missing teenager Daniel Morcombe
By NEIL HICKEY
POLICE yesterday stopped and interviewed hundreds of hinterland motorists as the search for missing teenager Daniel Morcombe took a new turn.
Acting on information from two separate sources about people in a blue car acting suspiciously on Eudlo and Bamboo roads on the afternoon Daniel went missing, police set up roadblocks at the scene in a bid to jog the memoriesof passing drivers.
Acting Detective Inspector Paul Schmidt said police fielded the first call in February when a caller claimed a blue car "with unseen occupants'' was seen travelling down Bamboo Road,on the afternoon Daniel went missing.
He said police responded to that call by ordering a search of 200 metres ofbushland just off the dead-end road.
Det Insp Schmidt said a second call just over two weeks ago identified a blue car with two male occupants "acting suspiciously'' a short time earlier on Eudlo Road, which cuts across Bamboo Road.
He would not elaborate on the manner of the suspicious activity but did reveal a second, but wider, search of the area was conducted following the second call.
The officer said the roadblocks were set up because police were "working on the assumption it would be a vehicle of someone who lives locally who would be travelling on this road''.
He confirmed the car involved in both sightings was similar in description to the older model blue sedan seen at the site where Daniel went missing more than six months ago.
Det Insp Schmidt said the eight-hour operation, in which about 255 cars were stopped, had created a number of leads.
Yesterday's roadblocks were held barely 2km from Nambour Connection Road where Daniel disappeared on December 7.
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