EXCLUSIVE 20 years on: The 'red herring' that let Daniel Morcombe's murderer slip through police officer's fingers, plus the glaring error that meant he was free to kill in the first place
These were the words Bruce Morcombe, the grieving father of Daniel Morcombe, who was kidnapped from a Sunshine Coast bus stop by pedophile Brett Peter Cowan in 2003, spoke to his killer in court.
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