The Boy in the Blue Cap: The Gerard Ross Story is an eight-part documentary directed and produced by award-winning journalist Kristin Shorten, forensically documenting one of WA’s most enduring and heartbreaking mysteries.
WA’s Health Minister has not met with loved ones of the Geraldton woman who died while waiting for an ambulance last month, but said she would be open to speaking with the family on their request.
Phoebe Pin
A model plane enthusiast and ‘red hot’ suspect in the murder of Gerard Ross is dead, but detectives still have the car he drove at the time of the schoolboy’s abduction more than 23 years ago.
Kristin Shorten
The key suspect in the murder of Gerard Ross admits he saw the schoolboy moments before his abduction. In an extraordinary interview, he reveals why reporting it was the ‘worst idea I’ve ever had’.
The Boy in the Blue Cap: The Gerard Ross Story is an eight-part award-winning documentary about one of WA’s most enduring and heartbreaking mysteries. Watch the full series here.
In an extraordinary move, police investigating the unsolved murder of Gerard Ross have asked Seven West Media to produce copies of all interviews, footage, reports and articles related to the case.
A convicted killer who dumped his ex-wife’s body just metres from the gravesite of the murdered schoolboy is under renewed scrutiny after fresh allegations he may have abused a boy in the 1970s.
Kristin Shorten and Mark Gibson
A chilling confession to a Perth registered nurse two decades ago is one of the lines of inquiry now being re-investigated in relation to the 1997 unsolved murder of Gerard Ross.
Blowflies and beetles found on the body of Gerard Ross indicated that the schoolboy’s body had been dumped in a pine forest within days of his death.
Crime Stoppers have received a flurry of calls following the release of a groundbreaking documentary, The Boy in the Blue Cap, about the 1997 unsolved abduction and murder of schoolboy Gerard Ross.
It was warm and sunny the morning that Gerard Ross vanished from a deserted street in Rockingham, Western Australia. Gerard’s family had only arrived at the beachside suburb a few days earlier.
By nightfall on that eerie spring day in 1997 the gravity of Gerard Ross’ disappearance was clear. More than 90 police and SES volunteers had scoured Rockingham’s bushland and beaches in vain.
Horse trainer Mick Miller can’t forget how he felt the morning he came across Gerard Ross’ body in the Karnup pine forest.
When Gerard Ross’s body was found, dozens of police – including the TRG – combed the Karnup pine plantation on hands and knees looking for clues that might lead to a killer.
CCTV footage from the Gull Rockingham indicates that Gerard Ross was abducted from Kent St before reaching the service station 800m away.
Gerard Ross is the other Daniel Morcombe – snatched off the street in broad daylight, murdered and dumped in a nearby pine forest – but his killer remains free.
The police investigation into the Gerard Ross case has become one of the largest in the state’s history, second only to the Macro investigation into the Claremont serial killings.
From as early as she can remember, Rebecca Ross knew that she had another sibling – a beautiful big brother who she never got to meet.
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