The grandfather of Otautau toddler Amber-Lee Cruickshank said he was still "almost certain" the case would be solved 15 years after she she disappeared.
Amber-Lee, aged two and a half, vanished from Kingston at the southern tip of Lake Wakatipu on October 17, 1992.
Tuesday night's episode of TV2 programme Sensing Murder focused on Amber-Lee's disappearance.
Psychics on the programme said they believed Amber-Lee was abducted and her neck broken by a man who knew the family and was seeking revenge over a drugs dispute.
Amber-Lee's grandfather, Gore man Denis Cruickshank, was last night reluctant to talk about the case, other than to say, after watching Tuesday night's programme, he was "almost certain" the case would be solved.
He said he knew nothing of the police investigation and was just one of thousands that watched the programme.
"Let the investigators do their thing. I am not going to say too much more; leave it in the hands of the law."
Amber-Lee and her family arrived in their house-bus in Kingston, having left behind a drug-addled past in Otautau.
They were visiting friends, an overnight stop en route to the West Coast where the family planned to resettle.
They had just finished having a barbecue with friends when Amber-Lee disappeared.
Sensing Murder psychics Kelvin Cruickshank (who is unrelated to the family) and Deb Webber both came to the conclusion Amber-Lee was abducted and had her neck broken by a man who had followed the family to Kingston intent on revenge for a drugs dispute.
Their findings were backed up by former police detectives who had identified a suspect and passed that information on to Invercargill police.
Otautau residents spoken to yesterday by The Southland Times were nonplussed at the revelations a killer was potentially in their midst.
Otautau Diner and Takeaways owner Owen Clark said while he had "put the old brain to a bit of work" after discussing the programme with his daughter, the show had not even rated a mention at the counter of his shop.
"You'd be lucky to find 15 families that were here 15 years ago."
Otautau Hotel publican Alan Gerken agreed and said the bush telegraph had been surprisingly silent on the show's findings.
"There's nothing coming over the bar, no finger-pointing or anything."
Margaret Drake, of Otautau's Detective Sergeant John Kean, of Winton, who is handling the fresh information was unavailable for comment yesterday.
However, Senior Sergeant Dave Raynes, of Invercargill, said police had received six phone calls related to the programme after it screened.
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