SOLVE the Adelaide Oval Abduction forensic tests

Want to play a part in solving the baffling cold case abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon more than 50 years ago from Adelaide Oval?

Backed by more than 12 years of investigative work our team, led by Investigative Journalist Bryan Littlely, is confident independent, expert testing of items and a search of an area identified in a confessional statement can deliver answers in the Adelaide Oval Abuduction case.

We are seeking to raise funds to cover the cost of independent forensic testing of the contents found in two barrels located in 2009 by private investigators following precise directions in a confessional statement made by Mark Trevor Marshall to the Mullighan Inquiry.

Additionally, we seek to prepare/excavate what that written statement says is a crime scene, with the view to handing that over to SA Police when it becomes clear it is of potential forensic importance in the case of missing girls Joanne and Kirste.

In a sworn statement to the Mullighan Inquiry into the abuse of children in state care, Mark Trevor Marshall, detailed how his family members were involved in the abduction, murder and disposal of the bodies of Joanne and Kirste by way of cutting them up and putting them in 40 gallon drums hidden inside a submerged tunnel in a remote reservoir wall at Pekina Dam, Orroroo. He drew a map marked with an X. The Mullighan Inquiry statements were never meant to be released. Mark Marshall's statement should not have ever been able to be seen.

In January 2009, after SA Police Major Crime detectives attended in December 2008 with private investigators following details of the Marshall statement, the private investigators returned to the Pekina Dam and located 2 US airforce drums hidden in a sealed and submerged tunnel. The police detectives had, from their visit in 2008, determined that the tunnel did not exist. It was covered with calcite rock.

SA Police testing of the materials conducted in 2009 determined that the contents contained traces of blood, but they were inconclusive. Other independent testing also detected traces of blood and acid in the materials. Police suggest the absence of hemoglobins in the material justified ruling it of no interest to them.

SA Police have earlier this year been provided with additional samples of the material from the barrels which had been quarantined by the finders of that material.

It is our desire to:

1. Have the materials tested by an independent and fully accredited forensics specialist for a full analysis of their composition.

2. Create access to and reinstate the entrance to the tunnel and its surrounds (the potential crime scene) to provide for forensic investigation of the site.

The costs associated with these activities have been quoted to total from $15,000 to $20,000.

SA Police will be provided with ALL items and findings from the forensic testing of the samples and the public informed through media channels of all findings and discoveries from these processes.