Post by Scumhunter on May 25, 2019 0:19:39 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: abc.net.au)
From abc.net.au: (2014 article):
Computer generated images that show what one of South Australia's most wanted may look like now have been released by police.
Stuart Pearce - who would now be 57 - is suspected of murdering his wife Meredith and three of their children, 11 year-old Adam, Travis who was 9 and Kerry aged 2 in 1991.
Their bodies were found bound and gagged in the burnt-out remains of their Parafield Gardens home.
The couple's fourth child Matthew, then aged eight, survived, having spent the night at a friend's house.
Pearce, who finished work at a nearby service station 30 minutes before the fire started, has allegedly been sighted several times in country South Australia, interstate and overseas since that time.
Photographs of Pearce previously released to the public were taken in the early 1990s.
Police said the new images were created using a sophisticated software program which takes key features of a face - hairline, eyes, nose, mouth and chin - then ages the person, taking into account factors such as sun damage and weight.
Detective Inspector Greg Hutchins said he hoped these images might provide a more realistic view of how Pearce looks today and generate more lines of inquiry.
"We don't know if he's alive or dead, 23 years on, it's really hard to know but we hope these images will generate some information that we can follow up and hopefully bring this matter to a conclusion," he said.
"We know at the time he had brown hair and several distinctive tattoos - a naked woman with a rose on her back on his upper right arm and a red and green rose over a Maltese Cross on his lower left leg. But those could have been altered or covered up.
"Pearce is about 177cm tall and has blue eyes - those details are unlikely to have changed. We also know he needed prescription glasses."
There is a $1 million reward for information leading to Pearce's conviction.
mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-05/computer-generated-images-of-sas-most-wanted/5722366?pfmredir=sm
2019 blog: hauntedadelaide.blogspot.com/2019/01/pearce-family-murders-part-ii-murders.html?m=1
Thoughts? A couple technical notes first on the fugitive who is basically Australia's version of Robert Fisher:
-I am placing this thread in the Fugitives on TV section since Pearce has been understandably covered in national Australian media the past 27-plus years, and is in all likelihood the country/continent's most wanted fugitive.
-We can also assume Pearce to still be at large as of this posting date (5/25/2019), due to how high-profile this case is. If there was ever a resolution, it would make huge news.
In any case, I've been vocal about not really being a fan of profiling foreign country cases on our site. This isn't to be ethnocentric but rather it's that although we're a discussion/sleuthing site that gets readers from all over I'd rather discuss cases we'd have more potential to solve, which means usually more localized cases. However, A) This case is so tragic it needs to be discussed and like Robert Fisher we need to find out what happened to Pearce alive or dead. B) This is probably a man that can be anywhere in the world and it's not outside the realm of possibility that he could be hiding in the United States in my opinion.
And to further compound the tragedy, if you were to look up Matthew Pearce, the surviving son, you will see he has been in and out of prison. This isn't to make excuses for him, but one would think if he never had to suffer through the nightmare that happened to him, his life may have and in my opinion probably would have turned out differently. Granted, at least in 2002, Matthew believed his father was innocent according to the 2019 blog I linked to, but that doesn't change what he has he had to live through and I cannot imagine being in his shoes. I hope for everyone including Matthew's sake one day the case can be solved.
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