QUEENSLAND Police have released the CCTV of Toyah Cordingley’s final hours before she was murdered on a remote beach north of Cairns in the hopes it will uncover the 24-year-old’s killer.
Detective Inspector Sonia Smith made another appeal for public assistance today, telling reporters they were still hunting for a suspect more than a week after Ms Cordingley’s murder on Wangetti Beach. Detectives are also working through more than 530 Crimestoppers files.
“We understand photographs are very good but it doesn’t replace vision where people can get more of an idea of what that person actually looks like and acts like and it may just be another thing just to trigger somebody to think, ‘yes, maybe I did see something’,” Ms Smith said.
“Toyah was wearing light coloured crocheted singlet top and carrying a large striped colourful bag when she was at Rusty’s Markets and she was there for just over half an hour.
“It is possible that Toyah changed clothes after leaving the markets.”
The final photos of Ms Cordingley, taken the day before her murder, surfaced on social media last week that showed the 24-year-old working at a Cairns market.
The pictures showed a white-blonde-haired Ms Cordingley handing out samples of camel milk at Barr St Markets on October 20.
The next day, Ms Cordingley spent some time at Rusty’s Market in before driving the 40kms to Wangetti Beach to walk her dog.
By late Sunday night, Ms Cordingley still wasn’t home and her family reported her missing.
Toyah’s dad Troy Cordingley led a search party to Wangetti Beach the next morning, finding his daughter’s body in the sand dunes.
Queensland Police later said Ms Cordingley had sustained “visible, violent injuries” before her death.
A week after Ms Cordingley’s murder, police are still hunting for her killer and are widening their search.
“We’ve had a massive amount of support form the community and they’ve given us dashcam footage,” Ms Smith said.
“We’re particularly interested in the time between 2pm and 3pm on Sunday, October 21. Any footage between Ellis Beach and the turn off to Port Douglas both north and south.”
Police said they were no longer just asking for dashcam footage and asked anyone with helmet cams, GoPros or even photographs to contact police.
“We’d like to remind people to look around in their community and think about anyone in their community since last Sunday that has any injuries that can’t be accounted for, movements that can’t be accounted for between 12 and 7pm and anyone with damaged or unaccounted for clothing," Ms Smith said.
Police set up Crimestoppers stalls at Rusty’s Market in Cairns and at Wangetti Beach over the weekend, resulting in the number of public tips hitting 530.
Detectives are still hoping to speak to a family that was in the Wangetti Beach carpark just before 1.30pm.
Ms Smith reminded the family they spoke to a couple in the carpark about a sausage dog.
“We have not spoken to them yet and we’re very keen to speak to the family,” she said.
They’re also appealing for any scenic photographs or footage taken at Rex Lookout on October 21 that may hold information relating to Ms Cordingley’s murder.
Ms Smith said Queensland Police was pouring all of its resources into finding the 24-year-old’s killer.
“We have an open investigation and we will leave no stone unturned until we find out who is responsible for Toyah’s death,” she said.
“We will conduct inquiries as they present to us. Needless to say it is an open investigation, we do have an open mind and we will follow all lines of inquiry until we get answers for Toyah and her family.”
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