DETECTIVES at Frankston CIU last week assisted in the arrest of a man later charged with the murder of a Sydney toddler 47 years ago.
It is the oldest cold case arrest in Australia.
The 63-year-old, who was 16 at the time of the incident, was seized on Wednesday by NSW detectives after a two-year investigation into the disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer from change rooms at Fairy Meadow beach, on the NSW south coast, in January 1970.
She is believed to have been murdered. Her body has never been found.
The man, who now lives under a different name in Frankston, is said to have mentioned the incident 18 months afterwards while a resident of a New South Wales boys’ home. He was interviewed at the time but no charges were laid.
He appeared before Frankston Magistrates’ Court briefly before being extradited to Sydney.
