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Detectives investigating the disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell have returned to the property on the NSW mid-north coast where he went missing seven years ago. Police are digging up the garden at the Kendall home where his foster grandmother lived and where he was last seen in 2014. Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said on Tuesday there had been a significant breakthrough in the case and he was confident police would solve the mystery of the boy's fate. "There is certainly one person in particular that we are looking closely at," he told Sydney radio 2GB. Police are investigating whether the boy died after falling from a balcony at the Kendall home, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. It says a police cadaver dog is at the scene and Strike Force Rosann will consult a forensic anthropologist, an archaeologist and a hydrologist in a bid to unearth new evidence in the case. Mr Fuller said he didn't want to say too much for fear of compromising the investigation. "Officers have been working tirelessly to get to this point where we are searching land, again using the best technology available," he said. "They inherited what was a bit of a mess and have really cleaned up that investigation and they have a clear strategy and one of those is going back to Kendall." The case of the missing boy in the Spider-Man suit has captured the nation's attention since William disappeared from the garden of his foster grandmother's Kendall home in 2014. On Monday, NSW Police announced they were conducting a new "high intensity" search for William's remains near the property. Police are being helped in the search by 30 SES volunteers. Volunteers are using chainsaws and other heavy-duty equipment to clear dense bushland, including felling large trees. Asked about reports police were seeking an apprehended violence order against a person or people of interest in the case, Police Minister David Elliott was reticent to say too much. "It is a matter of public record that police are issuing AVOs," he told the Seven Network. "We need to be cautious about how we discuss that in the public domain so smart lawyers don't use our comments to neutralise a conviction." Earlier, he told the Nine Network it was "a matter of public record that a number of people who had relationships with William have been questioned by police". William's foster family have never been publicly named due to legal reasons. Ten reporter Lia Harris, who interviewed the foster parents for her 2019 podcast Where's William Tyrrell? said she had recently received a subpoena from the coroner's court for "a very broad range of material". "Everything that I had uncovered in my research for the podcast, audio files, documents, everything, including those raw tapes of my extensive interviews with the foster parents," she told 2GB on Tuesday "To me, it signalled that they had either taken a new direction or they had a new theory they were working on." The findings of a coronial inquest into William's disappearance, which concluded last year, are yet to be handed down. A $1 million reward for information on the case still stands. Australian Associated Press

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November 16 2021 - 11:16AM

Detectives investigating the disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell have returned to the property on the NSW mid-north coast where he went missing seven years ago.

Police are digging up the garden at the Kendall home where his foster grandmother lived and where he was last seen in 2014.

Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said on Tuesday there had been a significant breakthrough in the case and he was confident police would solve the mystery of the boy's fate.

"There is certainly one person in particular that we are looking closely at," he told Sydney radio 2GB.

Police are investigating whether the boy died after falling from a balcony at the Kendall home, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

It says a police cadaver dog is at the scene and Strike Force Rosann will consult a forensic anthropologist, an archaeologist and a hydrologist in a bid to unearth new evidence in the case.

Mr Fuller said he didn't want to say too much for fear of compromising the investigation.

"Officers have been working tirelessly to get to this point where we are searching land, again using the best technology available," he said.

"They inherited what was a bit of a mess and have really cleaned up that investigation and they have a clear strategy and one of those is going back to Kendall."

The case of the missing boy in the Spider-Man suit has captured the nation's attention since William disappeared from the garden of his foster grandmother's Kendall home in 2014.

On Monday, NSW Police announced they were conducting a new "high intensity" search for William's remains near the property. Police are being helped in the search by 30 SES volunteers.

Volunteers are using chainsaws and other heavy-duty equipment to clear dense bushland, including felling large trees.

Asked about reports police were seeking an apprehended violence order against a person or people of interest in the case, Police Minister David Elliott was reticent to say too much.

"It is a matter of public record that police are issuing AVOs," he told the Seven Network.

"We need to be cautious about how we discuss that in the public domain so smart lawyers don't use our comments to neutralise a conviction."

Earlier, he told the Nine Network it was "a matter of public record that a number of people who had relationships with William have been questioned by police".

William's foster family have never been publicly named due to legal reasons.

Ten reporter Lia Harris, who interviewed the foster parents for her 2019 podcast Where's William Tyrrell? said she had recently received a subpoena from the coroner's court for "a very broad range of material".

"Everything that I had uncovered in my research for the podcast, audio files, documents, everything, including those raw tapes of my extensive interviews with the foster parents," she told 2GB on Tuesday

"To me, it signalled that they had either taken a new direction or they had a new theory they were working on."

The findings of a coronial inquest into William's disappearance, which concluded last year, are yet to be handed down.

A $1 million reward for information on the case still stands.

Australian Associated Press

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