Police search forest for body of Allecha Suzette Boyd
Police will begin searching a forest near Wagga Wagga on Wednesday morning in the hopes of finding the body of Allecha Suzette Boyd.
It's understood new information has come to light about the 27-year-old's disappearance, and at 6am police began a search of Lester State Forest, about 20 kilometres south-west of the town of Coolamon.
Police have started a new search for the body of Allecha Suzette Boyd.
Photo: FacebookMs Boyd, the cousin of Collingwood footballer Will Hoskin-Elliott, was last seen in Coolamon on August 10 last year, and police allege she was murdered sometime that afternoon.
Despite earlier searches of bushland around the area, Ms Boyd’s body has not been found.
Her friends and family called for information about her whereabouts daily, and police established Strike Force Amias to investigate her disappearance.
In September, her sisters Rhiannon and Tammara Boyd made a public appeal for information, offering a $100,000 reward.
Two months later, two men were separately charged over her death.
Police search a house in Gurwood Street, Wagga Wagga where a 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with the murder of Ms Boyd.
Photo: Prime News Wagga WaggaOn November 7, strike force detectives arrested a 19-year-old man at a home on Gurwood Street in Wagga Wagga. Police also seized a loaded shorten rifle at the property.
The man was charged with murder, possessing an unauthorised prohibited firearm, possessing ammunition without a permit, not keeping a prohibited firearm safe and breach of bail.
Two weeks later, a second man, 37-year-old Samuel John Shephard, was charged with murder. Both men remain before the courts.
While police had not located Ms Boyd’s remains, Detective Inspector Cloake said strike force detectives were confident they had found “all the persons involved in Allecha’s murder”.
Ms Boyd was last seen in Coolamon on August 10. Today, police have begun searching Lester State Forest for her remains.
"It's very rare that investigators will charge a person with murder without having located a body, but in this case, we are confident that we have obtained sufficient evidence to put a strong case before the court."
Ms Boyd lived in South Australia and Victoria before moving to Wagga Wagga two years ago.
Ms Boyd had started working as a chef at the Farmers Home Hotel before her disappearance and had been living in friends’ houses.
With Rachel Olding