In January 1970, the toddler was ripped away from her family in a daylight abduction from Fairy Meadow Beach, Wollongong, NSW. At the time it was reported a man was seen carrying a blonde girl wrapped in a towel as he ran towards the car park. So all of that’s been reviewed, it’s been transcribed and transposed put onto our current investigation computers and our systems, so that’s how it’s come about.” 
 
 Police said the suspect was caucasian, about 152cm with brown hair, blue eyes and fair complexion and, if alive, he would be in his early 60s. Police believe they have now identified a suspect – a teenager aged between 17 and 18 who would now be in his 60s – after finding information that was missed in the original investigation. Cheryl Grimmer disappeared from outside a shower block on 12 January 1970 but no trace of her was found despite an extensive search at the time. Cheryl was kidnapped while she was spending the day with her mother and three brothers. The three brothers joined police at a press conference on Monday at Fairy Meadow Beach, where Cheryl was last seen. Someone must have seen something at the time, and we are urging them to come forward,” Detective Sergeant Dark said. We really want to know,” Stephen said. Ricki says he he has “never forgiven” himself for his sister’s abduction. “Just let us know where she is, give us something so we can mourn. A Coroner’s inquest at Wollongong Coroner’s Court in May 2011 concluded that Cheryl was deceased; however, who murdered the girl remains a mystery. “Mum and dad are never going to know. Please get it off your mind and let us know,” Stephen said on Monday.
– Australian police are chasing a mysterious suspect almost 47 years after a British girl disappeared from a beach during a family trip. Cheryl Grimmer's family had recently moved to Australia when police believe the 3-year-old was abducted from changing rooms at Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong on Jan. 12, 1970. Investigators had little to go on apart from a ransom note that led nowhere and witness reports that a man was seen running toward a parking lot with a blonde girl in a towel. But when witnesses—aged 9 to 12 at the time of the crime—gathered for a re-enactment of the abduction two weeks ago, they described something investigators had apparently missed: a male, possibly 17 or 18, lurking near the changing rooms prior to Cheryl's disappearance, reports the Times. "He was just seen loitering … in the morning and the afternoon," a detective says. Authorities believe the male—white with brown hair and blue eyes—may have snatched Cheryl after her brother, Ricky, took her to the ladies' changing room and then left to go get his mother, per News.com.au. Ricky Grimmer and his two brothers are now asking the suspect to come forward so they can fulfill a promise to their mother, who died three years ago, to find out what happened to Cheryl. "Just let us know where she is, give us something so we can mourn," Grimmer says, adding he's "never forgiven" himself for the abduction. "It's cost me and my family everything." A $100,000 reward is offered for information leading to an arrest, per AAP. (A woman was reunited with her kidnapped son after 21 years.)