Police have begun interviewing and profiling people that they have 'concerns about' in the area where two-year-old Aisling Symes went missing.

Friends are concerned for the missing brother of alleged gunman David John Bourke as police delay identifying the body found in his crashed car.

Hopes of finding two-year-old Aisling Symes alive may now rest with a young Asian woman police believe may have spoken to the toddler about the time she was last seen.

Two-year-old Aisling Symes went missing from a Henderson street in Auckland nearly 24 hours ago.

Aucklanders young and old yesterday searched for toddler Aisling Symes, who disappeared on a bitterly cold Monday.

Tisha Lowry's body will be returned to her family tomorrow while the "house of horrors" accused faces fresh questions over a third death.

Neighbours of Christchurch's house of horrors found the interior "covered in bloodstains" two years ago.

The singer's partner disappeared four years ago and was presumed drowned but new information indicates he may in fact be working as a deckhand in Mexico.

Police are open to helping authorities investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann but have received no requests for assistance.