Serial underwear thief's missing map teased link to child who vanished

Key points

• A 1988 attempt to reopen the inquest into the 1972 disappearance of Mackay schoolgirl Marilyn Wallman failed due to missing evidence linked to a convicted sex offender.
• The current inquest has heard that Michael Anthony Frances, who died in 2020, was in Mackay when Marilyn vanished.
• Frances, a repeat sex offender, was arrested in 1974 after stealing women's underwear and was found with a notebook referencing sexual assaults, including one where he claimed to have 'got a young girl'.