snopes.com: Missing Child: William Tyrell

Claim:   A three-year-old boy named William Tyrell is missing from his New South Wales, Australia, home. 

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Example:   [Collected via e-mail, October 2014] 

is the search for missing william tyrell legitimate? no address given, noo part of the country and phone number 1-800-333=0000 doesn't sound right.

 

Origins:   On 12 September 2014, three-year-old Australian boy William Tyrell vanished from his grandmother's yard in New South Wales. Tyrell was last seen wearing a Spiderman costume and was playing with his sister at the time of his sudden and unexplained disappearance. 

An intense effort was immediately launched to locate the little boy, including a thorough search of nearby bushland using dogs. Despite the large-scale investigation, no information has thus far been turned up to explain how or why Tyrell disappeared or what may have happened to the toddler. Police said that dogs were unable to locate the boy's scent, leading them to believe that he may have been abducted rather than wandered off. 

The effort to locate Tyrell gained social media traction when it was shared more than 1.2 million times, but law enforcement has yet to turn up any leads on what may have befallen the toddler. Police in New South Wales have asked anyone with any information about Tyrell's disappearance to contact the Australian Crime Stoppers tip line at 1800 333 000. 
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