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Greg Jenkins

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773 total appearances

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Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

And just seeing them, it's like, yeah, that's definitely mum.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

A construction worker.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

So there was a construction worker and the background story to him was he had just come to the site to start working as a landscape gardener.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

One of his friends or relatives, I can't remember which one, worked at the site and told him about, you know, at the start of the year, they found human remains at this site and they moved them and he asked to have a look.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

So they took him to the site and he found an appointment card, like a dental appointment card for mum.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

And it had a name on it.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

So he's gone back to his wife who could speak English and they Googled mum's name and then all of the missing persons reports and the posters, et cetera, come out.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

So for him, it was a bit of a cash grab because we'd offered the reward, which is fine.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

We offered that reward for any information and had that money set aside.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

20,000 ringgit, which was like about 7,000 Australian.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

Yeah, yeah.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

So it worked to a certain degree in terms of so this guy was too scared to go to the police.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

So everyone knows that they don't really trust the Malaysian police because if they give them the items, he was scared that they're just going to point a finger at him and go, case closed, you did it, it's all done.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

Correct.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

Okay.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

Yeah, yeah.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

So he was too scared to go to the police and I said, no worries, I'll get the police to come out to you.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

They refused.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

And even worse than that, we're using the controller emergency centre through DFAT, sending them through everything, like here's the pictures, here's where the construction site is, here's everything.

Australian True Crime
A Needle in the Haystack: Finding Anna Jenkins *Re-Issue*

They passed it on to the police, got nothing.