Warning: this article contains the name of an Aboriginal person who has died, and distressing details.
New South Wales Police have announced a two-day search for the remains of an Indigenous teenager who disappeared 35 years ago will begin in Bowraville on Friday.
16-year-old Colleen Walker-Craig was last seen in mid-September of 1990.
Colleen Walker-Craig, her cousin Evelyn Greenup, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux all disappeared in similar circumstances over a five-month period. Source: Supplied
The NSW coroner found that she had most likely been murdered.
No one has ever been convicted for the teenager's killing.
NSW police said they expected to search areas of the river crossing into neighbouring Macksville as well.
Ms Walker-Craig was the first of three Aboriginal people to die over a five-month period, deaths which came to be known as the Bowraville Murders.
4-year-old Evelyn Greenup, Ms Walker-Craig's cousin, disappeared from her family home in the evening of October 4 1990.
Her remains were later discovered with trauma to the skull.
In February of 1991, Clinton Speedy-Duroux also disappeared in similar circumstances to Ms Walker-Craig, following a party.
He was reported missing a day later. His remains were discovered 7 kilometres outside Bowraville two weeks later.
Given the similarity and close occurrence of the three deaths, they have been long presumed the work of a serial killer.
A man was tried for the murders of Clinton and Evelyn in 1994 and 2006 respectively, but was acquitted.
The High Court refused to hear an appeal in the case in 2019, prompting calls for changes the state's double jeopardy laws.
