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He actually was quite sore after getting off that

for Brett, he was so repulsed by him that his body was

sort of trying to make him lean away.

So it was like this personal fight against being friendly with this person who's just a real monster. Several weeks ago we spoke with Caroline Overington about her excellent book

missing William Tyrell and during that conversation Caroline and I spoke a few times about Daniel Morcombe.

It seems inevitable that whenever you talk about the mysterious disappearance of

William Daniel's case comes up. Like William, Daniel seemed to evaporate, impossibly, into

thin air. Daniel was 13 years old and he lived with his parents, Bruce and Denise, and his two brothers on the sunshine coast in Queensland.

They didn't live near the beach though. They lived in a beautiful pocket of tropical farmland called

Palmwoods. And Daniel had spent much of his school. of tropical farmland called palm woods.

And Daniel had spent much of his school holidays earning pocket money by fruit picking

on a neighbor's farm.

On the 7th of December 2003, when he'd finished picking for the day, Daniel showered and

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