South Creek Road, Cromer, Sydney: Twist after bones were found on building site

A forensic investigation has determined that the bones on a building site on Sydney's northern beaches are not human.

On Wednesday, officers attended a construction site on South Creek Road, Cromer, at about 10.45am after a number of bones were excavated. 

The bones were taken for forensic examination, but police said this morning that results indicated the bones did not belong to a person. 

The subjects of several notorious missing persons cases were last known to have been seen in the northern beaches area.

Mother-of-two Lynette Simms vanished without trace from the Bayview home she shared with husband Chris Dawson in January 1982.

Cromer is about 12km south of Bayview and 13km south of Newport, from where 18-year-old Trudie Adams disappeared in February 1978.

Chris Dawson was found guilty of murdering his wife in August 2022 and jailed for a minimum 18 years.