Daniel O’Keeffe’s family have made it clear they think police didn’t do enough to find their son, believing he could have been found on the day he went missing if the case had been taken more seriously.
“There’s a lot of disappointment, from day one,” Daniel’s sister Loren told The Sydney Morning Herald.
“It was very clear from the beginning that Dan was not the priority for them.”
Lori and Des O’Keeffe dedicated their lives to finding Dan. Source: Facebook.
Although the family claims that if sniffer dogs or phone trackers, Daniel would have been found in "20 minutes", requests to the SES went unanswered.
"In a way I feel cheated that my last act as mother was taken away from me," says Daniel's mother Lori.
"If Dan had been found on the day I would have been able to hold him and say goodbye."
Dan prior to his disappearance.
The statement from Daniel's family comes just a week after Daniel's sister spoke publicly about her brother's death for the first time on The Project.
Police have yet to comment on Daniel's death.
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People "go missing" all the time and it is usually their choice.
Even recently there was a famous singer who has the paparazzi all following her who "went missing" and even the paparazzi were mystified despite the 24 hour attention she receives - no one knew her whereabouts. Turns out she wanted some time to herself.
To put it simply. The Police simply do not have the resources and cannot be expected to call out the SWAT team, forensics, scientists, sniffer dogs and 12 helicopters when someone is gone for one day.
I understand the families pain, but let's be realistic here.
Well there is the matter of a body decomposing under the house supposedly unnoticed, I'd imagine the smell would be considerably stronger and last for a lot longer than it would for a rat or possum. Was there foulplay?, did they wait for all physical evidence to be gone before 'finding' the remains? or was it simply an accident?. The police can't show up with every possible bit of kit to every case, it just doesn't happen, you could also argue that if they had concerns about him they should have been watching him more closely or gotten him help sooner, its a rabbit hole of if only's and what if's without a single answer or solution.
I couldn't help but think that if the family couldn't find him on the property they lived on (literally just behind the house) in 6 years then how could the police have?
It has previously been explained why there was no smell.
Please take your ghoulish comments elsewhere. Way too many internet detectives who think they know it all. Someone's loved one is dead so how about showing a little bit of respect.