The brother of a boy who disappeared from the side of a road more than four decades ago will never give up on trying to find his sibling’s remains.
Daryl Floyd began a painstaking quest of digging out an old mine shaft in rural Victoria eight years ago where he believes a paedophile dumped his brother’s body.
‘My brother does not deserve to be laying in that disgusting mine out there,’ Mr Floyd said in a preview for 60 Minutes.
Daryl Floyd (pictured), 52, has spent the past eight years digging out a mine shaft in rural Victoria where he believes a pedophile dumped his 12-year-old brother’s body in 1975
He began the painstaking quest of digging out an old mine shaft near Avoca in 2010 following the revelation of new evidence in relation to his brother’s disappearance
Mr Floyd’s older brother, Terry, was 12 when he was last seen walking along Pyrenees Highway between Avoca and Maryborough June 28, 1975.
The youngster had been playing monopoly at his friend’s house and was heading back to his family’s house the afternoon he mysteriously disappeared.
His younger brother, now 52, strongly believed Terry’s body was down the abandoned mine shaft he has spent nearly a decade digging out.
‘This is basically where all our information leads us to. And I believe he is down here,’ Mr Floyd told presenter Tom Steinfort.
Mr Floyd’s older brother, Terry (pictured), was 12 when he was last seen walking along Pyrenees Highway between Avoca and Maryborough June 28, 1975
His younger brother (pictured), now 52, strongly believed Terry’s body was down the abandoned mine shaft he has spent nearly a decade digging out
He began digging out the shaft near Avoca following the revelation of new evidence, which cannot be revealed, in 2010.
His determination to find answers has been supported by Former Homicide Detective Ron Iddles who worked on the cold case from 1999.
‘In my mind there’s no doubt he’s been murdered,’ Mr Iddles said.
Mr Floyd believed polic failed in the way it had handled his brother’s disappearance, and called on improvements alongside the families of 30 other missing Victorians.
His determination to find answers has been supported by Former Homicide Detective Ron Iddles who worked on the cold case from 1999 (pictured together)
An old shoe (pictured) was one of several items Mr Floyd believes adds to evidence a certain man murdered and dumped his brother’s body in the mine shaft
He said he would continue trying to find his brother for the rest of his life if that’s what it took.
‘I do it for my parents. They passed on not knowing what happened to their son,’ Mr Floyd said in 2015.
‘I want to find Terry’s remains and bring them home and rest them with his parents, like he deserves.’
The full story will air on Sunday night’s episode of 60 Minutes.
Mr Floyd said he would continue trying to find his brother for the rest of his life if that’s what it took