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Alice Springs mother Karlie Pearce-Stevenson was murdered just one month after she was last seen, but police are still unsure when her daughter Khandalyce suffered the same fate. Police believe she was murdered some time between December 14 and December 15, 2008.
Daniel James Holdom, 41, did not apply for bail after his arrest in Cessnock, New South Wales on Wednesday. Superintendent Mick Willing said on Thursday he believed the child, Khandalyce Pearce-Stevenson, had been murdered at some point after her mother “but we are trying to establish the exact time”. He was not charged with the murder of Khandalyce. He will appear in Maitland local court today.
The pair were last seen in November 2008, when Ms Pearce-Stevenson was 20 and Khandalyce was aged two.
Her young daughter Khandalyce was found inside a suitcase dumped by the side of the road almost 1100 kilometres away at Wynarka, in SA’s Murray Mallee, in July this year.
‘She sustained certain injuries to her body but I can’t go any further into those injuries as the investigations are ongoing. The forest was the infamous dumping ground for victims of Australia’s most notorious serial killer, Ivan Milat, who was convicted in 1996 of murdering seven backpackers. He was reportedly an acquaintance of Pearce-Stevenson, who had left Alice Springs with her daughter in 2006 to travel Australia following a dispute with her mother.
Detective Superintendent Des Bray said on Tuesday: “We know tragically that some of those SMSs were sent to family members to again suggest that Karlie was still alive and on at least a couple of occasions that a woman falsely represented herself to be Karlie in communication with either family or friends”.
A man whom Karlie knew has been charged for her murder, authorities are still searching for her daughter’s killer.
It has been revealed that Karlie’s bank account was accessed over 1,200 times.
His arrest follows revelations Karlie’s phone and bank account had been accessed for years after, several people taking almost $100,000.
This is a major breakthrough in the investigation after Karlie Stevenson’s body was discovered five years ago in the Belanglo Forest. “The time to do that is now”, Det Supt Willing said. Police are yet to charge anyone with her death.
‘Her telephone, her bank accounts, her Centrelink and family payments’.
A woman in a wheelchair impersonated Karlie during a Centrelink interview in Adelaide in 2010.
