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Daniel Morcombe was born
Daniel Morcombe was born on the 19th of December in 1989. His parents Bruce and Denise Morcombe couldn't be happier than to have a son added to their family. Daniel had an older brother Dean and also a twin brother Bradley. Daniel and Bradley had such a strong bond, they shared everything together. Bruce and Denise brought all there boys up to be good people, to not hurt anyone and to go far in life. They were proud of what there boys had become. They didn’t hurt a soul, that’s why they always q -
Bradley Morcombe
It was the 7th of December, 2003 when Daniel disappeared from a bus stop under the Kiel Mountain Road overpass on Nambour Connection Road at Woombye on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. He was on his way to the Sunshine Plaza shopping centre to get a haircut and go Christmas shopping. He had begged his twin brother Bradley to go with him but Brad said ‘No’, from this day on it has haunted Brad to know that if he would have just went with his twin brother to the shopping centre he might have still bee -
Memorial Service
Exactly a year after Daniel disappeared from the bus stop at Woombye, roughly around 1,000 people attended a memorial service to mark the first anniversary of Daniel’s disappearance. At the memorial service a special plaque was also unveiled in honour of Daniel. -
Daniel Morcombe Foundation
In February 2005 Daniel’s parents; Bruce and Denise launched the Daniel Morcombe Foundation to continue their message on child safety and the Foundation sees its role in the community as assisting educators and parents in the education of children about their personal safety and to empower all Australians to make their own local communities safer places for children to live in. Denise and Bruce Morcombe are very ordinary people, in the finest sense. But their courage is extraordinary. The Dani -
Reward
As time went on and they still hadn’t found their little boy on the 1st of December, 2008 a record of $1 million private reward was offered for any new information on the whereabouts of Daniel. -
Investigation report
During April of 2010, the state coroner receives an extensive investigation report, containing thousands of pages, from the police regarding the suspected death of Daniel Morcombe. -
Coronial Inquest Begins
On October 13, 2010, a coronial inquest was led by the State Coroner Michael Barnes begins. The inquest was held in Maroochydore and Brisbane. The Morecombe’s new purpose in life is to put themselves out there so everyone knows that if they are going through the same thing that they are not alone and Bruce and Denise will help anyone out who is in need. They also want to stop child abuse as much as they can as no one should go through what they were put through for nine years. -
Brett Peter Cowan Arrested
August 13, 2011 came and Brett Peter Cowan, aged 41, was arrested and charged for the murder of Daniel Morcombe. Police and State Emergency Service volunteers search a nearby bushland in the Sunshine Coast hinterland as part of the investigation. Over the next two months, a pair of shoes and human bones are then discovered. DNA came back and the results confirmed that they bones were Daniel Morecombe’s. -
Daniel's Funeral
After the long wait that the Morecombe’s had to find their boy they could finally bury what was left of him. The funeral was on the 7th of December 2012 at St Catherine of Siena Church at Sippy Downs on the Sunshine Coast. It was exactly nine years to the day since he had disappeared. He was then laid to rest at Woombye Cemetery. Daniel’s parents new focus after laying their son to rest was to see Cowan charged and in jail for what he had done to Daniel. -
Jail
The day after Cowan was put as guilty he was then sentenced to life in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 20 years for the murder of Daniel Morcombe. The Supreme Court Judge Roslyn Atkinson says Cowan’s crimes were “horrific and disgraceful” and that he “tragically and pointlessly snuffed out a young life”. -
Day for Daniel!
The parents Denise and Bruce Morcombe started the Foundation as well as started Day for Daniel. Day for Daniel is always on the 30th of October of every year. To this very day both Denise and Bruce still have nightmare and wonder how Daniel ever deserved to go the way he did.
