THREE MURDERS, ONE SUSPECT, NO JUSTICE
Driving down the main street of Bowraville in Northern New South Wales is like taking a trip back in time. On the right side of the street is the cinema, where Indigenous people were forced to sit on a patch of dirt segregated from white patrons. Across the road is Bowraville Police Station, where three Indigenous children were reported missing in the space of five months in the early 1990s. On the outskirts of town near the rubbish dump is the Mission, a single street of red brick houses where the Indigenous families live and where all three kids went missing within 70 metres of each other. At the time, the street was called Cemetery Road.
Today, visitors to the mission are welcomed by a car sitting on cement blocks with its tyres removed and windshield smashed in. The bonnet and doors have been spray-painted in red graffiti that reads, “Fuck the police.”
Back in the 1990s, everyone at the mission looked after one another. Kids played freely on the streets, but were warned by their parents not to leave the mission – afraid they would be hurt by white people.
On September 13, 1990, Colleen Walker-Craig, 16, was last seen walking away from a party on Cemetery Road. Three weeks later, Evelyn Greenup, four, went missing
