Intensive search for men
PA Auckland The police are relying on new clues from the public to lead them to the killer of Alicia O’Reilly, aged six, earlier this month. Intensive efforts to track down tWo men seen outside the O’Reilly house about tlie time Alicia was .killed and raped, have draWn a blank so .far. , . . ‘ ‘
The team of 17 policemen canvassing the .Avondale area to find the men has been reduced to six. The rest have been added to the “suspect team,” checking the alibis of known sex offenders and the -hbst of people named as possible suspects by members of the public. The painstaking search of the O'Reilly’s house in Canal Road was completed yesterday and the small search team will not be kept, on the homicide squad. The man heading the squad, Detective Inspector B. E. Matthews, said last evening that the squad needed more information, especially from people who resembled, or had seen likenesses to, the identikit pictures of the two men seen outside the house.
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