Overview
- Search teams found the five-year-old’s body Thursday about five kilometers from where she was last seen near Alice Springs.
- Investigators named a 47-year-old recently released prisoner as their main suspect after finding his DNA alongside the child’s on underwear recovered near a riverbed.
- Hours after the discovery, residents assaulted the suspect in Alice Springs, and clashes outside the hospital led police to use tear gas and rubber bullets.
- Police say he leaves few digital traces and are using locations from a past ankle monitor to guide the hunt, while warning that helping him could bring legal trouble.
- An autopsy set for Friday will clarify how she died, and the Indigenous family asks that she be referred to by the cultural name Kumanjayi Little Baby.