Australia: Girl’s remains found in barrel – Fears of 9-year-old girl missing

Shocked is the Australia from her case disappearance of a 9-year-old from her home in the Blue Mountains area. The little one was last seen on the veranda of her house last Thursday. Police were notified of her disappearance at just 8:20 a.m. the next day.

According to the Daily Mail, a man was arrested and charged with murder of the small. The 32-year-old man was arrested at an apartment in Sherry Hills in downtown Sydney around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

He was taken to the local police station and charged. The man will face the court on Wednesday morning, however his identity has not yet been revealed. Nor what has to do with the disappearance case. Australian authorities are expected to provide more information later in the day.

Australia: What led to the arrest and the macabre finding

Authorities on the night of Tuesday 18/1 in a search conducted on a river that is about an hour by car from the house where the little girl disappeared, were found in front of a macabre find. They found a barrel with the remains of a girl whose age matches that of the missing woman.

A neighbor of the house where the girl went missing this week told the Daily Mail Australia that his wife, while reading, heard the sound of a car on the road at 4:30 in the morning.

“He got out of bed and went to the window and saw a shadow moving,” said John Heitzler. “It’s very quiet here at night and you can clearly see every light, let alone the headlights – they were not on.”

Mr. Heitzler said his wife could not see the make of the car or who was driving it, but reported it to police after hearing that a little girl was missing from the next door.