{"id":838563,"date":"2025-04-02T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/grim-discovery-in-the-desperate-search-for-a-missing-six-year-old-girl-who-vanished-in-a-small-town-in-broad-daylight\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:13:06","slug":"grim-discovery-in-the-desperate-search-for-a-missing-six-year-old-girl-who-vanished-in-a-small-town-in-broad-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/grim-discovery-in-the-desperate-search-for-a-missing-six-year-old-girl-who-vanished-in-a-small-town-in-broad-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"Grim discovery in the desperate search for a missing six-year-old girl who vanished in a small town in broad daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Young girl went missing in southern NSW\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14486469\/The-eerie-case-child-went-missing-abroad-just-months-Madeleine-McCann-Amy-Fitzpatrick-disappeared-middle-night-family-Spain-17-years-no-answers.html\">The eerie case of child who went missing abroad, just months after Madeleine McCann &#8211;\u00a017 years on, there are still no answers<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-305\/padraig-collins.html\">PADRAIG COLLINS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><span> <span>Published:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2025-03-16T09:53:56+0000\"> 05:53 EDT, 16 March 2025 <\/time> <\/span> | <span> <span>Updated:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2025-03-16T21:41:37+0000\"> 17:41 EDT, 16 March 2025 <\/time> <\/span> <\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Police fear they have found the body of\u00a0a\u00a0six-year-old girl who went missing on the south coast of\u00a0<a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new-south-wales\/index.html\" id=\"mol-e70b48f0-0249-11f0-854a-553f3080b18b\">New South Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday evening, police found a body believed to be\u00a0Airlie Montgomery, who was last seen at North Nowra, 170km south of <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/sydney\/index.html\" id=\"mol-e70c0c40-0249-11f0-854a-553f3080b18b\">Sydney<\/a>, at about 2.15pm the same day.<\/p>\n<p>When she could not be located or contacted, the South Coast Police District was called and officers immediately launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Her family was very concerned for Airlie&#8217;s welfare due to her young age and a number of medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A police statement said: &#8216;About 6pm, a body was located during the search within a bushland in the North Nowra area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;While it is yet to be formally identified, it is believed to be that of the missing girl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Inquiries into the incident have commenced. A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Airlie was described as being of Caucasian appearance, of small\/slim build, with blonde\/brown hair in a pony tail and dark eyes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Airlie Montgomery (pictured) went missing from North Nowra, 170km south of Sydney, at about 2.15pm on Sunday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <ad-slot position=\"smart_feed\"><\/ad-slot><\/p>\n<p>            <ad-slot position=\"after_article\"><\/ad-slot><\/p><\/div>\n<p> Raleigh Redner<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14504181\/Airlie-Montgomery-missing-North-Nowra.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=1490\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young girl went missing in southern NSW\u00a0 READ MORE:\u00a0The eerie case of child who went missing abroad, just months after Madeleine McCann &#8211;\u00a017 years on, there are still no answers By PADRAIG COLLINS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 05:53 EDT, 16 March 2025 | Updated: 17:41 EDT, 16 March 2025 Police fear they have found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,1089],"tags":[17501,11556],"class_list":{"0":"post-838563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-desperate","8":"category-discovery","9":"tag-desperate","10":"tag-discovery"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}