Suspected human remains have been located at a construction site on Sydney’s northern beaches.
A NSW Police spokesperson said officers attended a construction site on South Creek Road, Cromer, about 10.45am on Wednesday and several bones were excavated.
“The bones have been taken for forensic examination to determine if they are human,” the spokesman said. “Investigations continue.”
Sources told Daily Mail Australia that police had asked local residents not to speak about the discovery and that workers had been told not to return to the site.
Locals had heard that there was a skull among the bones found during the renovation of the building and that the remains indicated evidence of a homicide.
Police outside a construction site on South Creek Rd, Cromer, on Wednesday night
It is known that the subjects of several notorious missing persons cases were last seen in the northern beaches area.
Lynette Simms, a mother of two, disappeared without a trace from the Bayview home she shared with her husband Chris Dawson in January 1982.
Cromer is about 12 kilometers south of Bayview and 13 kilometers south of Newport, where 18-year-old Trudie Adams disappeared in February 1978.
There is no indication at this time that the bones may belong to Ms. Simms or Ms. Adams.
Chris Dawson was found guilty of murdering his wife in August 2022 and jailed for a minimum of 18 years.