Rob Burgin

So

It's just a mysterious place and it's always seemed to me like somewhere where the stakes can be high because people get forced into tough positions and a lot of it occurs in the shadows.

There's not the police numbers or the resourcing that perhaps that area warrants.

So

So Gympie's like two hours away from here, but a lot of the cases from the courts will be heard there.

So that gives you an idea of how sparse a region it is.

Yeah.

No one's ever been charged and no one has been declared a person of interest in this case.

That's the official line.

If you've seen things online from all the citizen sleuths, there's probably 100 suspects in this case.

But at the moment, it's before the coroner's court.

It hasn't been determined if it will go from being an investigation into an inquest.

And the family's still waiting to hear some details around what is happening with that.

But mentioning courts, an interesting thing here is while I've been out there frequently, I've noticed some days in those tiny towns where there might be two police officers on at any time, there's up to 90 listings in a court on a day.

So you can imagine that workload.

I'm kind of painting the picture of what sort of place it is.

The first clue is Jack's white trainers.

They were found, the laces still tied, as though he'd just kind of stepped out of them and walked away barefoot.

So the theory seems to be that Jack could have been walking away from the fixed crossing picnic area towards the north, back to the nearest town, Mergin.

he could have been intending on going either via the highway or a slightly more direct dirt back road on the other side of the creek.