Evelyn Greenup should have been 34 years on October 5.
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The gentle and nature-loving four-year-old who was stuck like glue to her younger brother, Aaron, would have been a loving big sister.
She could have been a nurse, or a social worker - she certainly had the disposition for it, even at the tender age of four, say her family.
She might have been a wife, and a mother today.
"I'll always wonder what her mark would have been on the world," Evelyn's aunt, Michelle Jarrett said.
But the world will never know, because her life was stolen 30 years ago, and with it, all her future happiness and potential.
Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of her murder. Three weeks ago (September 13) it was Colleen Craig-Walker's anniversary. And in February next year it will be Clinton Speedy-Duroux's.
Evelyn's loved ones will gather together at her memorial garden in Bowraville on Sunday to remember her, and to celebrate her life.
"Thirty years is a long time to fight for justice and still not have answers," Evelyn's Mum Rebecca Stadhams said.
"And to make sure everyone knows we're still fighting for her," Michelle said.
It's hard for some to fathom the families' resolve to keep fighting for justice even after their application for appeal to the highest court in the land was turned down last year.
"People get upset because the first thing that comes up when you Google Bowraville is the murders. I know some people would rather this just all went away. But if we stop fighting we're saying it's OK for people to come into our community and murder our kids. We're saying we don't love or care about our kids - but we do love them very much," Michelle said.
"I love Bowraville, and the Nambucca Valley - I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. But this is the biggest cloud hanging over our Valley and the only way to clear it is for us to see justice.
"And there's still a serial killer out there who murders kids."
Both women say time - even decades of it - doesn't come close to healing their wounds.
"Our kids today are feeling our pain - that wouldn't go away even if we stopped fighting," Rebecca said.
"They're learning that the police did us wrong, and we didn't get justice. And we've got to teach our kids to stand up for what's right, not to just lay down and accept this."
"All we're asking for is to be treated as equals and get due process of the law," Michelle said.
Why was justice perverted?
For months after Evelyn's, Colleen's and Clinton's families reported their disappearance to police, their cases were handled by welfare officers instead of homicide detectives - a fact Michelle and Rebecca said they only discovered after a 2011 Four Corners investigation revealed it.
"As the police suspected the families were involved in the disappearances, following the third disappearance, the Child Mistreatment Unit was assigned to the case, led by Detective Sergeant Alan Williams," 'The family response to the murders in Bowraville' report to the Parliamentary Inquiry said.
Sgt Williams was then assigned to head the homicide investigation after Clinton's body was found. In the same Four Corners investigation, Sgt Williams questioned why he was put in charge, acknowledging his own inexperience as a detrimental factor to solving the murders.
Michelle said if police had have taken Colleen's disappearance seriously, instead of making the racially-charged assumption she'd gone "walkabout", Evelyn's murder might not ever have happened.
"I walked into the police station at 8.30 at night to let them know my four-year-old niece was missing and I was told 'what do you want me to do about it - I'm just about to knock off'," Michelle said.
"I'd been taught my whole life not to talk back to police, so I didn't.
Potential evidence was likely lost as a result of the delayed investigation.
According to submissions given to the Parliamentary Inquiry, a perceived culture of racism also prevented witnesses from giving crucial evidence to the police.
"In the most extreme instance, a witness chose not to inform police that the [person of interest] had made admissions to him concerning the burying of bodies. In the words of the witness, 'I did not think I could tell police about this information because [the person of interest] was white and I was Aboriginal with a drinking problem and they would never believe me'," the report to the Parliamentary Inquiry said.
The Parliamentary Inquiry report also details information given to police from truck drivers who witnessed a white man standing over a young Aboriginal man's unconscious body at site known locally as Norco Corner. The description of the young Aboriginal man matched Clinton Speedy-Duroux, but this information was never taken down in a formal statement by police and so was never given to the prosecution before the 1994 trial for Clinton's murder.
"I want to publicly acknowledge that the NSW Police Force could have done more for your families when these crimes first occurred and how this added to your pain, as a grieving community," Mr Scipione said.
"And for that I am sorry."
The NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions originally sought to have Clinton's and Evelyn's cases heard together because of the similarities between them, but the trial judge held that similar fact evidence was inadmissible at the time and separate trials were ordered.
That decision still baffles the families today.
"Statistically how is it possible for three different strangers to come into a small community like Bowraville, grab three kids off the same street in a five-month period, in the same circumstances, and dump their bodies in the same area?" Michelle said.
Just one year after the acquittal for Clinton's murder, the definition of 'similar fact evidence' was broadened under the Evidence Act 1995, which could possibly have allowed the two trials to be heard together.
But by then it was too late.
The trial for Evelyn's murder waited until 2005 - after the reinvestigation by Strike Force Ancud, led by former Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin.
But Evelyn's family said they feel the systemic profiling of them that hampered the original police investigation continued in court.
"At Evelyn's trial our lifestyle was put on trial," Michelle said.
"And the prosecutor didn't cross-examine. Not once did the prosecutor get up and object or scratch his head or anything.
"We've danced around with politicians, we've jumped through all the hoops with the court system, we've marched, and we've done it all in a peaceful way, with our heads held high.
"People want to know why we still fight? Well those people should instead be disgusted that this is how people are treated under this system of theirs."
The way forward
In February NSW Police offered a $1million reward for any information about the murders that would lead to a conviction.
"If you know of any information which can help bring justice to the families of Colleen, Evelyn and Clinton - now is the time to stand up and speak up," the poster reads.
But Rebecca and Michelle both feel it's an empty gesture.
"We're trying to clean up the mess of the police. They should really be supporting us to fix this double jeopardy law," Michelle said.
"But instead it's 'Come on down - the price is right - you get a consolation prize of a million bucks'."
And no one from the police has contacted the families since the reward was offered, despite correspondence dated December 23 (2019) from the NSW Attorney-General's office stating he'd been told they would be.
"We need another inquest," Michelle said. "Like the Levesons - no one went to jail for Michael's murder, but at least they found his remains because of the inquest.
"The worst part of all of this is we still don't have Colleen's body. We've got to bring her home. We can't let Mooney (Muriel) and Michael's grief to continue - their grief is on another level because they don't have anywhere to grieve or remember her.
"All three families are related - we're one big family. So it wasn't just one child taken, it was three from the same family."
Rebecca and Michelle say they have plans to put up banners around Bowraville over the next few months, and paper the streets with the reward posters - their tenacious campaign for justice will continue:
I know we're not the only people in NSW who are victims of homicide, but there was only one Evelyn Greenup.