Detectives from the New South Wales homicide squad investigating the murder of Colleen Walker-Craig from Bowraville in 1990 have begun a two-day search for her remains.

Colleen was 16 when she was last seen in Bowraville in September 1990.

Her family reported her missing, and her weighted down clothes were later found in the Nambucca River.

Although Colleen’s body has never been found, the NSW coroner found she had died and had most likely been murdered. She was one of three Indigenous children killed over a five-month period in 1990.

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The remains of two of the children – Evelyn Greenup, four, who was Colleen’s cousin, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, 16 – were discovered within months. ‘Now is the time’: NSW homicide detectives return to Bowraville almost

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