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Police have made a startling breakthrough within the search to discover a younger father lacking from Sydney’s west for 70 years.
Donald Gordon Buckley, a 24-year-old labourer and father of three, was final seen at Warwick Farm in 1953.
Regardless of in depth investigations, the case went chilly till Mr Buckley’s granddaughter Donna Truscott once more reported him lacking in early 2023.
Following an enchantment, police had been contacted by a member of the general public and it is since been revealed that Mr Buckley had modified his identification six instances.
Police imagine Mr Buckley died of pure causes in Moree in 1980 when he would have been aged 51.
Donald Gordon Buckley was final seen by his household in Sydney’s south-west in 1953
Regardless of an in depth investigation by police within the Nineteen Fifties, officers had been unable to trace down Mr Buckley.
Following his disappearance, he exchanged a small quantity of correspondence along with his household earlier than abruptly ceasing contact in 1954.
On the time, he had two younger boys, aged two and 4, and a child, however was reportedly experiencing marital troubles.
He continued to make little one assist funds following his disappearance in 1953, however these additionally ceased in 1954.
Ms Truscott stated it was her father Donald Buckley Jr’s dying want in 2016 to find Mr Buckley, who had he had final seen on the age of 4.
‘Being an alcoholic, having issues, and having so many youngsters at such a younger age. I believe he simply did not wish to be himself,’ Ms Truscott instructed the ABC.
Donna Truscott filed a lacking individuals report in an effort to search out out what occurred to her grandfather
Police stated Mr Buckley Sr assumed a brand new identification earlier than dying of pure causes within the NSW city of Moree in 1980.
‘There have been six names listed on his demise certificates. He did not simply change his identify as soon as he used six totally different aliases,’ Ms Truscott stated,
‘There have been additionally three amendments to his age on the certificates.’
Ms Truscott has known as on the NSW coroner to substantiate the person buried in Moree cemetery is her grandfather.
In an odd twist, Ms Truscott’s choice to take a DNA check and add it to a family tree web site in 2017 with a view to observe down her grandfather led to a different lacking lady being recognized.
Tanya Lee Glover has been recognized because the stays found in a Brisbane storage late final yr
After studying a few nationwide enchantment for folks to submit their DNA to the police for a nationwide database, Ms Truscott supplied hers to NSW Police in an try to assist her observe down her grandfather.
However when Queensland Police touched base with Ms Truscott in June this yr, she wasn’t anticipating their cause for calling.
‘The officer stated “I am really calling you in relation to the physique of a feminine that was discovered beneath a unit complicated in Alderley in Queensland final yr”,’ Ms Truscott stated.
The officer defined to Ms Truscott that the DNA she’d uploaded through GEDMatch in 2017 had been a match to an unidentified lady discovered within the Brisbane unit complicated.
‘Their genealogist was capable of see a maternal hyperlink, by means of my mum, my aunty, my sister and I,’ Ms Truscott stated.
‘She’s very distant associated however there was sufficient DNA there to undeniably slim it down.’
9 months on, Queensland Police had been lastly capable of affirm the skeletal stays found had been that of Tanya Lee Glover, who would have been about 38 years previous on the time of her demise.
Whereas the identification of Ms Glover was an infinite step ahead, police are nonetheless investigating how she died and those that could be accountable.
Donald Buckley Jr holds his daughter Donna Truscott in 1979. It was his dying want to discover the daddy who walked out him when he was a baby
Ms Glover was not formally recognized to Queensland Police, and no lacking individual experiences had ever been made regarding her welfare.
Upon discovering her identification, Ms Glover’s dad and mom had been then alerted by police of her demise.
It is understood she moved to Queensland from NSW in 2006 and lived within the Fortitude Valley space till 2010.
She was visually and listening to impaired.
There have been no arrests made or prices laid in relation to her demise or disappearance.
Superintendent Massingham stated investigators had been nonetheless making an attempt to find out her explanation for demise, however there was proof of trauma.
‘This info may be very contemporary at this stage,’ Superintendent Massingham stated.
Police have concluded that this plaque belongs to to Donald Buckley (pictured) who died in Moree in 1980
‘There have been a lot of gadgets situated on the scene when it comes to wrappings and the like that I spoke of on the time, they’re nonetheless the topic of ongoing DNA inquiries and in addition additional ongoing forensic work.
Ms Glover is described as being white, between 155cm and 165cm tall, and he or she had darkish brown hair.
Because the investigation continues, Ms Truscott stated her household had been ‘honoured to have helped give Tanya again her identification’.
‘I would wish to say I suppose we performed an essential half in that, however the police put in all of the work, they constructed an enormous household tree of three generations with presumably tons of of individuals,’ Ms Truscott stated.
‘How unimaginable that for science, for DNA, for unsolved victims of murder, the evolution of that is completely excellent.
‘It is a good factor, I do not remorse importing the DNA.
‘You by no means imagined in one million years your DNA will remedy the identification of somebody like Tanya.’
