Police have returned to the street where a three year-old boy vanished on the NSW mid north coast last week in the hope of speaking to passers-by who may recall seeing someone suspicious.
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Drivers were stopped at the turn-off to Benaroon Drive in Kendall about 10.30am on Friday, the same time William Tyrell went missing a week ago, in a case police have described as one of the most baffling missing persons mysteries they have encountered.
William was last seen playing in his grandmother's backyard, wearing a Spider-Man suit.
Police believe he was running around the semi-rural home playing games with his older sister when he vanished without a trace.
His grandmother, who was in the yard, didn't see or hear anything. Neighbours saw no suspicious cars in the dead-end street.
After eight days of searching, there has been no sign of the boy in the dense bushland surrounding Kendall.
Superintendent Paul Fehon said police were desperate for any leads and hoped someone might remember seeing something as they drove past Benaroon Drive last Friday.
One driver who was pulled over at the police road block on Friday told officers about a black Camry that a truck driver had noticed in the area several times last Friday.
It is believed the information had already been canvassed by police and discounted.
"We would be eager to get anything," Superintendent Fehon said. "We want a new starting point, we really do."
He said William's parents and grandmother were doing it "very tough" as the one-week anniversary passed on Friday with no clues as to what happened to William.
There have been no traces, footprints, threads of clothing, sightings or possible motives.
Crews continued an "evidence-based search" on Friday, scouring forest that would be too far for William to walk to but where he could have been "assisted to" by a kidnapper in a car.
They have been told to look for anything that could be discarded from a car such as rubbish or William's clothing.
Superintendent Fehon said Strike Force Rosann detectives were scouring through hundreds of pieces of information from the public, including possible sightings, CCTV footage and information about people who may have been in the area last Friday.
However, he said no credible leads had been identified.
"Someone must have known something," he said.
