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PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AUSTRALIA WIDE
Finding the Facts
Search and Rescue in Australia (circa 1924), and 100 years on. Otto Yuncken – A murder, a hero, a dynasty.
Photo: The rescue party riding out across a High Country plain with George in bandages and broken bones on the middle horse ‘At daybreak...
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Part Four: Missing Person Response – Gaps uncovered
The first police unit on scene took down basic initial details and commenced a land search of the navigable roads and tracks for some hours.
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Part Two: Missing Person Response – Gaps uncovered
PART TWO OF A FOUR PART SERIES INVESTIGATIVE RESPONSE – THE GAPS IN THE FIRST 120 HOURS INTRODUCTION: “If it looks like a duck and...
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Gunfire – In ‘The High Country’
Murdered or Lost - clarifying the missing? (Three years down the track) There have always been ‘lone wolf’ stories of mostly men who...
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6 min read
‘The Lost Boy’ – Tragedy in the Outback…
Everything in life is a ‘Maybe, even where we think we have a considerable degree of control of direction and choice. Many things we do...
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3 min read
![MISSING[i]– 35 Years in the Australian bush.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/93549e_e0185d4780c7424c89fdb4442341c1f2~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_241,h_272,fp_0.50_0.50,lg_1,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/93549e_e0185d4780c7424c89fdb4442341c1f2~mv2.png)
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MISSING[i]– 35 Years in the Australian bush.
(Adapted front cover image of Tom Patterson’s 2022 book of the incredible story of Mark May) If there ever was one book that could be...
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We might as well be on the moon
CREDIT: MATT PALMER - https://mattpalmer.co Our Trip to Craigs Hut. By Pastor Christopher and Yolanda Eckels[i] Edited by Valentine...
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Paradoxical undressing
Paradoxical undressing is one of those strange things that an investigator can come across, more especially in the depths of winter.
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Not all who are missing are lost
Out of the Forest is a unique tale of survival. A young man is raised in grim circumstances, facing adversity in the most atrocious of ways.
Samantha Kiss
2 min read
Birdwatching - for bodies (Observations of wildlife to locate human remains).
As we get older some of us get great pleasure in ‘observing', from watching people in the street, to dog’s territorialising the park
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13 min read
Losing Track
How many times do you think, hear or say, “I’ve lost track of where I am” or maybe it is more a case of “I’ve lost track of my thoughts”...
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9 min read
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