WEST Australian police said today a woman who shared a train carriage
with a teenage boy who vanished more than two weeks ago could provide
them with important new information.
Major Crime Squad Detective Sergeant David Bryson said camera footage
from a train travelling between the south-eastern Perth suburbs of
Armadale and Kelmscott on the day Blake Reynolds disappeared showed
him sitting near a female passenger.
Blake, 14, was last seen at Kelmscott railway station on August 30
following that brief journey.
His disappearance has sparked a major investigation.
"We just wish to find out who she is because ... we want to know if
she struck up a conversation with Blake, what sort of mood he was in,
how he was feeling," Sergeant Bryson said.
"She's not a person of interest. We just want to talk to her and find
out what Blake's demeanour was when he was on the train."
Yesterday, detectives combed the Reynolds' family home in nearby
Maddington for clues and later removed two vehicles for detailed
scientific examination.
Sgt Bryson said the family were not suspects, and the search was
standard procedure.
"Plus that's also to build up a bit of a profile on Blake as
well," he said.
"The stuff that we seized was Blake's music and things like
that – things we can look at and see if there is something we have missed."
The search of a semi-rural property at Bedfordale, also
yesterday, failed to turn up any new leads on the teen, he said.
"Blake may have been in that area in the past week or
two," Sgt Bryson said.
"It was a fairly big property.
"There was streams, there were creek beds and big water
tanks as well. It is the sort of place that a kid may have
went, may have fell, may have been hurt, so that's why it
was searched."
He said Blake's family and police were still hopeful he would
be found alive.
However, he could not rule out foul play.
"If you are being realistic about it, this is over two weeks
and he is a small sort of boy," he said.
"Obviously we are open to that as well, that is the reason
that major crime are here but we would definitely love to find him alive."
AAP (15-9-2005)
Holly Nott
Blake was found alive about 2 weeks after he went missing,
he had been abducted and 2 men have been charged.
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