Overview
- A volunteer searcher located human bones beside the Arthur River, about three kilometres north-east of the Philosopher Falls car park, with a pathologist confirming from images that the remains are human.
- Police winched teams into the area for line searches and reported finding additional bones, including a jawbone, as well as a polar fleece jacket, a bra and a thermal top that they believe are likely Cremer’s, pending tests.
- Formal identification will require pathology, anthropology, odontology and DNA analysis through Forensic Science Services Tasmania, a process police say could take several weeks before any coroner determination.
- Tasmania Police have notified Cremer’s family in Belgium of the discovery and are treating the remains as part of a developing investigation until identity and cause are formally established.
- The discovery follows a privately led search effort that in December 2025 found Cremer’s phone about 300 metres from the track, renewing focused searches in terrain that stymied extensive operations in winter 2023.