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Rex Martinich

FOUND: Private sleuths under fire after cold case test delays | Mind Blowing Facts

Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon disappeared from an Australian Rules football match in 1973. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

A bone discovered in an effort to solve a 52-year-old cold case has been found to be non-human after delays caused by private sleuths.

Police have criticised private investigators after they cut bone fragments believed to be linked to the 1973 disappearance of 11-year-old Joanne Ratcliffe and four-year-old Kirste Gordon from Adelaide.

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