Unsolved Siriyakorn 'Bung' Siriboon

[TheGreatBambino]

Still waiting for the 60 minutes/Sunday night special on this case

 

[johnymac1]

Still waiting for the 60 minutes/Sunday night special on this case

Good idea ,could jog peoples memories

Unfortunately it brings out a lot of nutters making false claims.
The longer a case goes, the least likely new evidence turns up.
Unless of coarse the offender confesses or the body is found

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It’s been a decade, it’s nuts that we’ve had basically no insight into the investigation - makes you think/hope that means it’s a *very* active investigation, but we’ve got nothing apart from lack of insight to support that view.

She disappeared into thin air. It’s just baffling. That possible sighting in Rowville or wherever it was is the only thing they’ve ever had

 

[justlookingaround]

Saw in a closed shop window in Boronia the other day.
Felt stuck in time, just like Bung is.
Let’s not forget.

 

[Jase327]

I was in the same friendship groups as Bung back in 2011. Literally everyone known to Bung including myself was interviewed and investigated.

The last reliable sighting of Bung was her crossing Paisely Ave while walking on Hardcourt Road which is roughly 150 metres from the school back entrance. There was a small, grassed area on the corner of Owen and Hardcourt where Bung would wait for friends and is roughly halfway between the last sighting and school entrance.

I think the Rowville sighting is a red herring as it contradicts the 2 reliable sightings of Bung on Elsie Street and Hardcourt Road.

IMO Bung was lured in to a car that morning by someone she knew and trusted enough to do so. I believe someone is giving a false alibi to this person for that morning and that's the reason the case hasn't and won't be solved.

 

[craffles]

I was in the same friendship groups as Bung back in 2011. Literally everyone known to Bung including myself was interviewed and investigated.

The last reliable sighting of Bung was her crossing Paisely Ave while walking on Hardcourt Road which is roughly 150 metres from the school back entrance. There was a small, grassed area on the corner of Owen and Hardcourt where Bung would wait for friends and is roughly halfway between the last sighting and school entrance.

I think the Rowville sighting is a red herring as it contradicts the 2 reliable sightings of Bung on Elsie Street and Hardcourt Road.

IMO Bung was lured in to a car that morning by someone she knew and trusted enough to do so. I believe someone is giving a false alibi to this person for that morning and that's the reason the case hasn't and won't be solved

What a tough thing for you to go through as young child. Thanks for sharing what you know.

 

[TimZoo]

I always wondered if it was a case of her biological father grabbing her & taking her back to Thailand & that was it

 

[justlookingaround]

I always wondered if it was a case of her biological father grabbing her & taking her back to Thailand & that was it

I think the police would've been able to establish that pretty easily had it been the case.

 

[Jase327]

I always wondered if it was a case of her biological father grabbing her & taking her back to Thailand & that was it

Her biological father was living in Thailand at the time He was interviewed and cleared. Whatever happened that day was opportunistic and not planned IMO. Bung nearly always walked to school with friends but that morning it happened to be raining so she walked alone.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I was in the same friendship groups as Bung back in 2011. Literally everyone known to Bung including myself was interviewed and investigated.

The last reliable sighting of Bung was her crossing Paisely Ave while walking on Hardcourt Road which is roughly 150 metres from the school back entrance. There was a small, grassed area on the corner of Owen and Hardcourt where Bung would wait for friends and is roughly halfway between the last sighting and school entrance.

I think the Rowville sighting is a red herring as it contradicts the 2 reliable sightings of Bung on Elsie Street and Hardcourt Road.

IMO Bung was lured in to a car that morning by someone she knew and trusted enough to do so. I believe someone is giving a false alibi to this person for that morning and that's the reason the case hasn't and won't be solved.

So she was walking north along harcourt road, spotted crossing paisley ave?

Because Owen St is before that… if she was walking north

 

[Jase327]

So she was walking north along harcourt road, spotted crossing paisley ave?

Because Owen St is before that… if she was walking north

Bung lived in Elsie Street so she travelled in an easterly direction crossing Albert Ave on to Harcourt Road. A witness saw Bung crossing Paisley Ave coming from that direction.

 

[Anja_Nees]

In the surveillance era we live in this one still surprises me. There’s never really been a credible lead made public. Very strange.

 

[juzza316]

In the surveillance era we live in this one still surprises me. There’s never really been a credible lead made public. Very strange.

This was 14 years ago, if the same thing happened today then likely it would be solved (or never have happened in the first place).

 

[Anja_Nees]

This was 14 years ago, if the same thing happened today then likely it would be solved (or never have happened in the first place).

Wearables, smartphones and CCTV are more prominent now but they were still common then. This was not long before Jill Meagher’s murder.

It was still strange a girl could disappear without a trace during the day in a Melbourne suburb.

 

[juzza316]

Wearables, smartphones and CCTV are more prominent now but they were still common then. This was not long before Jill Meagher’s murder.

It was still strange a girl could disappear without a trace during the day in a Melbourne suburb.

First Apple Watch was not released until 2015 and we were on the second release of the iPhone (iPhone 4). The difference between this happening in 2025 and back in 2011 from a technology perspective and being able to generate some sort of lead for police with footage, is huge. Every second house now has cameras.

I agree on your point about it being strange though, even back then disappearing without a trace was rare.

 

[TimZoo]

In my mind,I still can't rule out the possibility of an inside job,Stepdad Fred seems above board but mum did move back to Thailand eventually. It just seems too clean of an abduction

 

[Jase327]

Wearables, smartphones and CCTV are more prominent now but they were still common then. This was not long before Jill Meagher’s murder.

It was still strange a girl could disappear without a trace during the day in a Melbourne suburb.

Unfortunately Bung left her phone at home that morning otherwise it might have been traced somewhere other than Boronia.

 

[Jase327]

In my mind,I still can't rule out the possibility of an inside job,Stepdad Fred seems above board but mum did move back to Thailand eventually. It just seems too clean of an abduction

What motive would her mum have to "Abduct" Bung? She was and is still traumatised by her disappearence.

If one of the parents was involved do you really think they would abduct Bung 150 meters from her school where there is a high chance of being spotted by witnesses?

 

[juzza316]

Unfortunately Bung left her phone at home that morning otherwise it might have been traced somewhere other than Boronia.

If she had left her phone at home in 2025 that would have been suspicious enough in its own right.

 

[Earls Smother]

What motive would her mum have to "Abduct" Bung? She was and is still traumatised by her disappearence.

If one of the parents was involved do you really think they would abduct Bung 150 meters from her school where there is a high chance of being spotted by witnesses?

If you want to go down rabbit holes you should investigate the father of one her friends who was known to act inappropriately around young girls.
He has a shaky Alibi for that morning.

I agree, the parents had nothing to do with it.

Why are you so confident the sighting at Paisley/Harcourt is valid? That information was released just over a year after she disappeared, which suggests to me it was provided later on, which I find odd.

The sighting said 8:55, which means she took 25 minutes to do a 10 minute walk. As you said it was raining, so she wasn't going to muck around. She hadn't got to her usual waiting spot at the corner of Owen, and most kids I would imagine would have been inside the school grounds by 8:55.

I know the general area well, but you would know the immediate roads around the school better. I've always thought it was impossible she got to that point and wasn't seen by anyone other than the neighbour in Elsie St.

How busy would it have been at 8:55? Is it reasonable that only one person would have seen her?

 

[TimZoo]

What motive would her mum have to "Abduct" Bung? She was and is still traumatised by her disappearence.

If one of the parents was involved do you really think they would abduct Bung 150 meters from her school where there is a high chance of being spotted by witnesses?

I'm thinking maybe she knew more than she let on

 

[Jase327]

I agree, the parents had nothing to do with it.

Why are you so confident the sighting at Paisley/Harcourt is valid? That information was released just over a year after she disappeared, which suggests to me it was provided later on, which I find odd.

I'm not sure why it took nearly 12 months to release the information. Perhaps the person took a year to come forward which would be strange or perhaps Investigators spent time verifying the sighting before making it public close to the 1 year anniversary for extra publicity.

The sighting said 8:55, which means she took 25 minutes to do a 10 minute walk. As you said it was raining, so she wasn't going to muck around. She hadn't got to her usual waiting spot at the corner of Owen, and most kids I would imagine would have been inside the school grounds by 8:55.

The timing of the sighting has always bothered me. It would make much more sense timeline wise if the sighting was around 8:45am. Assuming the person wasn't looking at the time when the sighting occurred its possible it happened earlier.

I know the general area well, but you would know the immediate roads around the school better. I've always thought it was impossible she got to that point and wasn't seen by anyone other than the neighbour in Elsie St.

How busy would it have been at 8:55? Is it reasonable that only one person would have seen her?

The side streets like Elsie and Harcourt are pretty quiet at that time of morning. The school entrance on Moncoe was the back entrance so wasn't used by as many students. If Bung was there at 8:55am there would have been hardly anyone

Albert Ave has a fair bit of traffic so its a bit odd that nobody spotted Bung crossing the street but it's not impossible I guess after all it was the middle of winter and raining.

 

[Jase327]

I'm thinking maybe she knew more than she let on

You're entitled to your opinion, but I don't there is any evidence that suggests she had any involvement or knowledge.

 

[Earls Smother]

Bung lived in Elsie Street so she travelled in an easterly direction crossing Albert Ave on to Harcourt Road. A witness saw Bung crossing Paisley Ave coming from that direction.

It is often said she vanished into thin air and how did no-one see anything.

The thing is, 4 people did "see" things, but the difficult part is knowing which sighting/s, if any, are potentially more valid than others. I'm discounting really random sightings like in Chandler Rd. that were ruled out categorically by police.

The only 100% confirmed sighting is the one by the neighbour a couple of doors down in Elsie. His dog barked out the window as she walked past. He was used to seeing her, so nothing unusual.

We know another "sighting" was made by the lady at the corner of Boronia and Floriston Rds. She parked next to a car at the traffic lights (with her car in the left lane). That was the guy in the white Ford Falcon station wagon, slicked back rock and roll style light brown hair, late 50's, colored tattoo on upper left arm and wearing a blue singlet. A girl that looked like Bung was sitting in the back passenger seat. That info was released on the 3rd anniversary, but was received right at the start. The police said they had to verify that the information related to the correct morning (Thursday 2/6). They held this information back, probably hoping that one of the sex offender list would fit the description.

Then you have the Harcourt/Paisley sighting 130 metres from the school. This clashed with the above sighting, because she couldn't be in 2 places at once. The police had a decision to make - which one to release first? They went with this one, releasing it on 28/6/2012 (as you say, close to first anniversary, but not exactly).

Then on the 5th anniversary, they released the Rowville sighting, which you suspect is a red herring. That was the guy in white Holden Kingswood station wagon, 40 odd years old, balding or fair hair, sleeve and neck tattoos. They never said what he was wearing, but how do you identify sleeve tattoos unless the person has their arms exposed? A girl who resembled Bung was sitting in the front passenger seat. That was on Napoleon Rd, near Kellets Rd. It is uncertain when police received this information. Stepdad Fred says in a podcast it was received "from her" at the beginning - but is he mixing up the 2 car sightings potentially?

It has always seemed odd to me that the descriptions were very similiar, but with distinct differences (oxymoron, I know).
Old model white station wagons, drivers with tattoos wearing singlets (or T-shirt) on a wet winter's morning, with a girl fitting the description aboard.

Then the differences - Ford versus Holden, back seat versus front seat, age and hair of the drivers are different. There must have been some head scratching amongst the Puma taskforce.

Police also received an anonymous phone call on 9/3/12 with information of interest. They asked for the person to call back and it is unknown whether they did. Was that information related to any of the sightings above?

 

[Jase327]

It is often said she vanished into thin air and how did no-one see anything.

The thing is, 4 people did "see" things, but the difficult part is knowing which sighting/s, if any, are potentially more valid than others. I'm discounting really random sightings like in Chandler Rd. that were ruled out categorically by police.

The only 100% confirmed sighting is the one by the neighbour a couple of doors down in Elsie. His dog barked out the window as she walked past. He was used to seeing her, so nothing unusual.

We know another "sighting" was made by the lady at the corner of Boronia and Floriston Rds. She parked next to a car at the traffic lights (with her car in the left lane). That was the guy in the white Ford Falcon station wagon, slicked back rock and roll style light brown hair, late 50's, colored tattoo on upper left arm and wearing a blue singlet. A girl that looked like Bung was sitting in the back passenger seat. That info was released on the 3rd anniversary, but was received right at the start. The police said they had to verify that the information related to the correct morning (Thursday 2/6). They held this information back, probably hoping that one of the sex offender list would fit the description.

Then you have the Harcourt/Paisley sighting 130 metres from the school. This clashed with the above sighting, because she couldn't be in 2 places at once. The police had a decision to make - which one to release first? They went with this one, releasing it on 28/6/2012 (as you say, close to first anniversary, but not exactly).

Then on the 5th anniversary, they released the Rowville sighting, which you suspect is a red herring. That was the guy in white Holden Kingswood station wagon, 40 odd years old, balding or fair hair, sleeve and neck tattoos. They never said what he was wearing, but how do you identify sleeve tattoos unless the person has their arms exposed? A girl who resembled Bung was sitting in the front passenger seat. That was on Napoleon Rd, near Kellets Rd. It is uncertain when police received this information. Stepdad Fred says in a podcast it was received "from her" at the beginning - but is he mixing up the 2 car sightings potentially?

It has always seemed odd to me that the descriptions were very similiar, but with distinct differences (oxymoron, I know).
Old model white station wagons, drivers with tattoos wearing singlets (or T-shirt) on a wet winter's morning, with a girl fitting the description aboard.

Then the differences - Ford versus Holden, back seat versus front seat, age and hair of the drivers are different. There must have been some head scratching amongst the Puma taskforce.

Police also received an anonymous phone call on 9/3/12 with information of interest. They asked for the person to call back and it is unknown whether they did. Was that information related to any of the sightings above?

The problem I have with the sighting on Napoleon Rd is we don't know when that information was received. If it was received after the sighting on Boronia Road was made public, I'd say maybe the witness was influenced by the Boronia Rd sighting given they do have some similarities, or it could explain the discrepancies too I guess given years had passed.

The distance between Boronia and Rowville is roughly 9kms and would have taken 15mins or so I'm surprised nobody else saw anything particularly if it was a Kingswood station wagon which wasn't that common even in 2011.

If we ignore the discrepancies as eyewitnesses being notoriously inaccurate its possible for Bung to be on Elsie Street at 8:30am at the corner of Boronia and Floriston at 8:45am and on Napoleon Rd in Rowville at 9am.

Perhaps the sighting on Harcourt/Paisley is the red herring? After all there is no way a 10 minute walk should take 25 mins. It could explain no sightings of Bung crossing Albert Ave. If Bung hypothetically accepted a lift to school I think its more likely to have happened on Elsie Street than Harcourt Street.

I'd love to know how they came up with 8:55am time for the Harcourt/Paisley sighting. If the sighting time could be flexible e.g 8:40am which would mean a normal 10-minute walk to school, then you could fit all 4 sightings into a workable timeline.