“I couldn’t see him, I couldn’t hear him,” William Tyrell’s mother said, a sob catching in her throat as she remembers the moment she realised her son was missing.
He was out of his mother’s sight for only a moment. The last noise she heard him make was a tiger’s roar as he disappeared around the side of his grandmother’s house.
Someone, somewhere knows what happens next. But his family and the rest of Australia are in the dark.
On tonight’s 60 Minutes, William Tyrell‘s mother and father revealed the pain of not knowing what happened to their little boy, and their belief that somebody, somewhere, must know the truth.
“It was – the world, you know, it’s like the world just came to a screaming halt. There was no wind, there were no birds, there was no movement, there was nothing. And I’m looking out around this garden, I’m thinking, ‘Where are you?’ And there was nothing,” William’s mother said.
In a brief moment of hope, William’s mother imagined he might have caught a glimpse of his father walking through the front gate of the house.
“I remember saying, “Can you can you see Daddy’s car?” And there was no answer, there was no answer…”
After fifteen minutes of searching, it became clear that it was time to call the police.
“Yeah hi. My son is missing. He’s three and a half,” his mother said in the triple 0 call that has been released by police.