Daniel Morcombe was a 13-year-old Australian boy who was abducted from an unofficial bus stop under the Kiel Mountain Road overpass in the Woombye district of the Sunshine Coast on December 7, 2003. He was last seen wearing a red t-shirt, waiting for a bus to go to the local mall to buy Christmas gifts for his family. After years of searching and an incredible undercover police investigation, Daniel was finally found in 2011. Brett Peter Cowan, a convicted sex offender, confessed to killing Morcombe on that December day in 2003. Cowan had planned to molest Daniel and drop him off at a shopping center, but when Daniel fought back, Cowan panicked and grabbed him by the throat, and before he could react, Daniel was dead. Cowan then dragged Daniels body down an embankment, with the boys clothes. The response to Daniels disappearance by the Queensland Police Service cannot be said to have contributed to his death in any way. Daniels parents, Bruce and Denise, started the Daniel Morcombe Foundation to give back to the community who had supported them from the day that Daniel went missing. Today, the Daniel Morcombe Foundation is one of the most well-known not-for-profit child safety organizations in Australia.