Daniel Morcombe slain in lonely demountable

A small, abandoned demountable house, under a mango tree on a quiet road in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, is where 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe allegedly met his cruel end.

A photograph taken in 2001 of the building was tendered to the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday as prosecutors continued their case against the schoolboy's accused killer, Brett Peter Cowan, the Courier-Mail reports.

The photo shows a small patio, curtains in the windows and plastic chairs and a rubbish bin out front.

Cowan, 44, revealed the location to undercover police, his trial heard.

He allegedly told undercover police he abducted Daniel in 2003 and took him to the secluded house, on a macadamia farm near Beerwah, to molest him.

But Daniel was choked during a struggle and his body and clothes then dumped at a nearby property, a jury heard.

The demountable was razed by a farmer in 2006. When police managed to excavate carpet from the buried building in 2011 they had it tested for clues but without result.

It was when police turned their attention to the neighbouring property that they found what they believe are Daniel's remains.

First they unearthed a pair of shoes and then 17 fragments and pieces of bone.

The bones were from the upper-arm, shoulder blade, parts of the pelvis, leg bones, five vertebrae from the lower back and some pieces that looked like ribs.

The skull was never found, however, and it was not possible to form a view on how the person died, the jury heard.

The jury yesterday saw the incomplete skeleton laid out on a medical sheet, patiently rebuilt following two months of searching through bushland.

Cowan has pleaded not guilty to murder, indecent treatment and misconduct with a corpse.

His trial continues.