William Tyrrell inquest: police suspect foster mother buried toddler after accidental death

Wild dogs may have taken any remains of three-year-old if he was buried in nearby bushland, deputy NSW coroner Harriet Grahame hears

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A police theory that William Tyrrell's foster mother loaded his body into a car and disposed of it close to where he died will be examined as an inquest into the toddler's disappearance reopens.

The three-year-old went missing while playing at his foster grandmother's home in Kendall, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, on 12 September 2014.

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