Families seek answers in 36-year-old cold case
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The families of Colleen Walker-Craig, Evelyn Greenup, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux are asking police to intensify efforts to solve the murders of their children in northern New South Wales, Australia.
Muriel Craig, Colleen Walker-Craig’s mother, believes people in the Bowraville community know what happened to her daughter, who disappeared in 1990. Police discovered Colleen’s weighted-down clothes in the Nambucca River, but have not found her remains.
Homicide detectives are now focusing on Macksville, a town near Bowraville, to engage with residents and solicit new information. They hope to reach people who may not have spoken to police during a similar operation in Bowraville in 2024. Superintendent Joe Doueihi stated the detectives learned they had not adequately focused on the Macksville community previously. Evelyn Greenup and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, also First Nations children, disappeared around the same time as Colleen Walker-Craig.
While their remains were found in 1991, no one has been convicted in their deaths. A $1 million reward is offered for information leading to the recovery of Colleen’s remains, and similar rewards exist for information about the other two cases. Families have expressed frustration with the pace of the investigation and a lack of communication from police.
