Brisbane, Australia
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For decades, the Grimmer family never spoke about Cheryl.
“We weren’t allowed to mention her name,” said Paul Grimmer, who was just 4 years old when his little sister vanished.
Cheryl’s disappearance in 1970 during a family outing to an Australian beach triggered a major search, appeals for witnesses, and headlines half a world away in Britain, from where they’d recently moved. Her body has never been found.
With no answers, her parents’ intense grief settled into silence, and her three brothers grew up not knowing what happened to their 3-year-old sister.
In the last decade, the family has…