National Missing Persons Week begins on Sunday. Have you seen these faces?
National Missing Persons week begins on Sunday with a campaign featuring the faces of eight long-term missing persons.
But 21 years on, Di’s family are no closer to having answers to what happened to the plasterer from Melbourne’s southeast after he vanished on February 4, 2001, following a house fire he believed he had caused. Speaking publicly for the first time, stepfather Ian Jarrett described Di as clever, friendly, and a much-loved son.AdvertisementDi immigrated from China to Australia with his family as an eight-year-old boy, before settling in Melbourne’s southeast where he attended Dandenong High School before working alongside family as a plasterer.
Hayes, a detective with the Dandenong Criminal Investigation Unit, said an extensive police investigation had failed to locate the 21-year-old, with police even reaching out to their Sydney and New Zealand counterparts after potential sightings were reported.Detective Sergeant Dean Hayes in the park near where Li Bing Di was last seen.“He blamed himself for the fire and there was a lot of stress on the family at that time,” Hayes said.
This year, about $2.5 million worth of donated space, including billboards and buses, will be emblazoned with the photographs of the eight missing persons put forward by each state and territory.
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