WA Police have begun a second cold case review into the murder of 11-year-old Gerard Ross.
Special Crime division Detective Superintendent Rod Wilde and Police Minister Michelle Roberts made the announcement on Saturday, confirming the reinvestigation of the murder started in February this year.
Gerard was on a family holiday in Rockingham when he was abducted on Kent Street on October 14, 1997.
He was walking down the road behind his brother and arranged to meet him at a comic book store, but never arrived.
Gerard's body was found two weeks later in the Karnup pine plantation.
WA Police are now vowing to reinvestigate all 1300 people linked to the Newman boy's murder.
“We’re going back over everything we have,” Supt Wilde said.
“Forensically that involves every item we’ve seized in relation to crime scenes and searches that we’ve conducted at suspects houses over the period of time.
“We’re going back and we’re looking at all of the evidence, forensic evidence and everything that witnesses have told us.”
The first cold case review was conducted in 2014 before Cold Case Homicide Detectives issued an appeal for information in 2017.
The State Government also announced a $250,000 reward for any information relating to the case on the anniversary of Gerard's disappearance last year.
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