[citation needed] She was reported missing to Police that evening after she failed to return home and inquiries revealed she had not arrived at school.

[3] On the morning of Saturday 27 June 1987, Cormack's body was discovered at the base of a tree on Whirinaki Beach by a woman walking her dog.

Jules Mikus (born 28 September 1958[5]), who committed many sex crimes as a teenager,[5] was questioned by police and provided samples of his saliva and blood.

A public television broadcast by the detective in charge and seen by Mikus provoked a reaction in front of the people with whom he lived but they did not contact police.

In 2004, Rowene Marsh-Potaka (who had campaigned to stop her brother from being paroled for murder) collaborated with Cormack's mother Kelly Piggot to write an anti-parole song.

[6] Paul Rothwell's play Golden Boys, which ran at Circa Theatre in early 2006, was inspired by the Cormack case.