NORTHERN TERRITORY: AUSTRALIA
He was an eight-year-old boy, with a loving family and a bright future. But his life was cut short in October 2007. He went missing, while the people from the town he lived in attended a funeral. Two days later his shirtless body was found in a muddy creek less than a kilometre from where he'd lived. Police rapidly concluded he'd wandered off alone, fallen down a steep creek-bank, hit his head and drowned. How they reached this conclusion is still not entirely clear. Next on Four Corners, reporter Geoff Thompson examines the police investigation with startling results. Why did the police apparently ignore evidence of footprints showing a child walking with an adult in the direction of the creek?