A boy goes missing from a bus stop in Queensland, Australia. His disappearance made national headlines and launched the largest search for a missing child in Australia's history.

It was absolutely enormous. He said it was going to be a long few days. We didn't know it was going to be a long 12 years.

Who's ever responsible to pick on the wrong family? We're going to hunt you down.

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You got up early on that Sunday morning, and it was a showery day.

The boys had organized to do an hour, hour and a quarter, fruit picking on the neighbor's farm next door.

This is something the three Morcom brothers did often, to make a bit of pocket money.

But because it was a showery morning, the farmer phoned us and said,

we'll just delay it by an hour. This complicated things of it. Bruce and Denise were hosting their

business's Christmas lunch in that day, at a park down in Brisbane. The whole family were going to

leave at 8.30 a.m. allowing them to get there and set up before the franchisees arrived at 11.

But with the boys' fruit picking delayed, they'd never be able to leave on time.

So we threw it across to them in a simple family conversation.

What would you guys like to do today?

They didn't want to go to a crusty old family business luncheon,

and they wanted to stay at home, and perhaps they were in a little bit of pocket money.

It was settled. The boys would stay back, pick some passion fruits, and enjoy some downtime.

Because the fruit picking was just next door, as we were going down to the car,

you could hear the boys laughing and joking and enjoying life.

Bruce and Denise got their favorite spot in the park. They enjoyed a nice lunch. They had some

laughs with friends. Around two o'clock, you know, we're starting to look at each other,

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