Territory Stories

Death in the sand : the unsolved disappearance of James Annetts and Simon Amos

Details:

Title

Death in the sand : the unsolved disappearance of James Annetts and Simon Amos,

Creator

Barber, Norm,

Editor

Eagle-Lomax, Helen,

Collection

E-Publications, PublicationNT, E-Books,

Date

2014,

Location

Great Sandy Desert,

Description

"The unsolved disappearance of James Annetts and Simon Amos in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia. Teenage boys, James Annetts and Simon Amos, disappeared from their cattle stations in the east Kimberley region of Australia in 1986. The Western Australian police mounted a half-hearted search, discouraged local volunteers from helping, then after three days returned to their station to concentrate on paperwork. The boys' abandoned vehicle was located four months later by desert surveyors Andy Brett and Greg Owens. Wild dogs and camels had pulled apart the kids bodies and sucked their bones dry. Johnny Brown helped retrieve the scattered remains. He was intrigued. How had Simon been reduced to bleached bones while the flesh on James' face remained relatively intact, along with the shock of hair on his skull, bleached red by the desert sun? Weren't the boys supposed to have died at the same time? And what about the vehicle an Aboriginal tribal man heard follow the two teenagers into this deadly corner of the Great Sandy Desert?" -- publisher description.,

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),

Language

English,

Subject

Missing persons, Western Australia, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Great Sandy Desert,

Publisher name

Norm Barber,

Place of publication

Adelaide (S.A.),

Format

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly colour) , portraits (chiefly colour),

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781311670908,

Use

Copyright,

Copyright owner

Norm Barber,

License

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00042,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/265096,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/461267