There have been 17 long years of searching and campaigning for answers, but a Buninyong family still remains in the dark about what happened to their loved one.
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That family deserves answers after years of silence have stalled any progress to solve the murder of Belinda Williams.
Sunday marked the 17th anniversary of Belinda’s disappearance, taken from her own home where she was sleeping next to her six-year-old daughter one evening.
Now that daughter, and Belinda’s mother Shirley Macey, deserve to know what happened on that June night in 1999.
Someone, somewhere has information that can help police.
They might not realise the importance of what they know and how it might be able to assist police in solving the murder.
Answers can finally bring a semblance of peace to a family that must live every day with uncertainty over what happened.
They also deserve justice for the 36-year-old mother who was taken before her time by a callous murderer.
The community deserves to know who it was that committed the horrific crime.
Most importantly justice needs to be achieved for Belinda, who’s killer should be held to account in court.
Her case is one of several where killers remain free and justice remains unserved.
In each and every case there is someone who knows an important detail that could lead police to the killer and a guilty verdict.
Clunes nurse Nina Nicholson was murdered on the back doorstep of her home in 1991.
In another unsolved case, Kathleen Severino was bashed to death in the bedroom of her Drummond Street South in 1988.
Tracey Howard’s body was discovered at Pootilla after she vanished from a Ballarat nightclub, while mystery still surrounds Anthony Prebble’s murder as well.
His body was found in the Creswick State Forest in 1992.
For those unrelated to the victims, it is impossible to know the pain and suffering they have been through.
That pain will continue to be borne their families and friends for as long as the murders remain unsolved.
In Belinda’s case, police have a suspect but no evidence.
A call to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or Ballarat Police Station on 5336 6000 might be the only thing needed to bring the killer to justice.