A five-decade-old cold case of a missing toddler which has attracted international attention and a $1 million reward is set to take another turn.

Three-year-old Cheryl Gene Grimmer was abducted on January 12, 1970, outside a shower block at Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong, on the NSW south coast.

Cheryl was enjoying a day at the beach with her mother and three brothers.

In the decades since, her case has been subject to multiple police investigations and a coronial inquest that determined Cheryl had likely died.

The case also attracted millions of listeners to the BBC podcast Fairy Meadow in 2022.

Cheryl's disappearance is one of many missing persons and unsolved murder cases subject to a recently established parliamentary inquiry, to be chaired by NSW upper house MP Jeremy Buckingha

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