After a renewed five-day search for murdered NSW man Matthew Leveson returned no traces of the 20-year-old's body, the search will resume on Monday.
A search team returned to the dense bushland site in the Royal National Park on Monday in a renewed bid to unearth any trace of the 20-year-old who disappeared 10 years ago.
His parents - Mark and Fay Leveson - have never given up hope of finding their son's body and joined police in their search efforts every day this week.
An extra excavator was brought in to assist and on Friday Mr Leveson helped officers using a metal detector and shovel as his wife watched on.
The search will be suspended over the weekend and would resume on Monday, weather permitted, a police spokesman told AAP.
This week's search, which includes a forensics officer, is the third in the past six months after searches in November and January failed to find any trace of Mr Leveson.
Investigators were originally led to the remote roadside site by Mr Leveson's former boyfriend, Michael Atkins, who was acquitted of the younger man's murder in 2009.
He took detectives to the potential burial site after he was offered immunity from prosecution for perjury and contempt of court after admitting to lying at an inquest into the suspected murder.
An ongoing inquest into the death of Mr Leveson, who was last seen leaving Darlinghurst's ARQ nightclub with Mr Atkins in the early hours of September 23, 2007, is scheduled to resume in August.
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