The remarkable thing about this week was that even seasoned journalists could not stop talking about a girl who was found and rescued. Not the American soldier Pfc Jessica Lynch of fame, but an ordinary girl from Rockhampton ...
Feared murdered ... Natasha Ryan has told police she stayed hidden in her boyfriend's house for more than four years because the lie became too big.

Murder She Wrote Saving Private Citizen Ryan

Secretly taped confessions led police to believe Natasha Ryan was murdered by a suspected serial killer.
· Biggest media circuses [CourierMail: Rupert]
· Four years hidden from daylight
· Bidding war for Natasha's story
· Imprisoned by a lie