William Tyrrell search returns to where it started in town of Kendall
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The search for the boy in the Spiderman suit will today return to where the mystery first began.
Since William Tyrell's 2014 disappearance, there has been no trace of the then three-year-old, but police are hoping to change that with a new operation announced yesterday.
An extensive, large-scale forensic search will begin today in Kendall on the NSW mid north-coast where William went missing from his foster grandmother's front yard.
It will take four weeks and will see bushland in Kendall scoured, but it is unclear what triggered this new search.
The ABC understands however that police are not expecting a major breakthrough or a body.
Instead, police indicated the difference between this search and the initial search when William disappeared is a mindset.
"The initial search, while extensive, was focused only on finding William — a little boy who was lost — and not with a view of deliberate human intervention," police said in a statement.
That search took 10 days and was carried out across Kendall with hundreds of local residents and emergency service workers looking for William in forests, creeks and paddocks.
Nothing relevant to his disappearance was found.
Although it was fist believed he wandered off and got lost, police later said the circumstances in which he disappeared led them to believe he was abducted.
William was wearing a Spiderman suit and playing with his sister in the front yard of the Benaroon Drive house when he was last seen.
That house is directly across the road from the Kendall State Forest.
In 2015, the homicide squad also searched dense bushland around Bonny Hills, 20 kilometres from where William was last seen, but no trace of the boy was found.
That search was prompted by a tip-off and was two months later forensic teams searched the home of tradesman William Harrie Spedding.
Mr Spedding was understood to have given a quote at William's grandmother's house four days before he disappeared.
Police seized a number of items and the property's septic tank was drained.
Over the course of the investigation, police have also investigated reports of a paedophile ring operating in the area where William disappeared and seized a white station wagon for forensic examination from a property in Wauchope, north of Kendall.
William's case has also received the first $1 million reward for information in New South Wales history.
Thousands of people in Australia and around the world have come together to raise awareness for the hazel-eyed boy since 2014, proving how the case has captured many hearts.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, kendall-2439
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