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Chapter 1: What updates are there on the Nannup Four case?
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Hi, I'm Dominique Bayens, host of season six of Expanse, The Nanop Four. A heads up, this episode talks about suicide. I'm dropping in again because I've got an update for you on the search to find Chantelle and Leela McDougall, Tony Poppich and Simon Cadwell, a.k.a. Gary Felton. There's been some new developments. I'll fill you in soon.
But first, you might remember us talking about a follower of Gary Felton's who spoke in the inquest about Simon Cadwill as she knew him, telling her about plans for a family suicide. From the coronial inquest, it sounded like she was one of the few people Gary Felton was confiding in before the disappearance.
Her name is Cheryl Plochark, and from the moment I picked up this story, me and my team have been trying to get in touch. I've reached out to her over Facebook, Instagram, email, and phone. Last weekend, another media outlet published an article featuring Cheryl, which seemed to have some pretty critical information about what may have happened to Chantelle, Leela, Gary, and Tony.
And just a warning up front here, there's some pretty heavy details coming up. In this article, Cheryl reportedly says about a year before the disappearance, Gary began talking about a planned suicide. He spoke about taking a bus somewhere and then hiking into the wilderness with a shovel and drugs.
She's reported as saying Gary, Chantel and Leela would take the drugs before Tony buried the bodies. Then Tony would go far away in a different direction and end his own life. Now all of this so far we knew from the coronial inquest.
But then the reporting goes on to say that after telling Gary he shouldn't go through with it because it would be murder, he then told Cheryl that actually only he would do it. What Cheryl reportedly says next was never recorded in the coronial inquest. She says that actually there was another follower close to Gary who knew about his plans for a group murder-suicide.
The article says she won't give the follower's name, but says it was an American woman living in Scotland at the time. Apparently, she was so dedicated to Gary and the Truth Fellowship, she'd given up her relationship, her home and her savings to fund Gary's lifestyle. Sounds a bit familiar.
Cheryl reportedly claims it was this woman who supplied Gary with a euthanasia drug, that she travelled to Mexico to buy it and sent it to Gary before the disappearance, under the belief only Gary would use it. Cheryl says she'd be willing to give all this information to WA Police. It's a lot to take in. I can't verify any of this because Cheryl won't answer my calls, messages or emails.
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Chapter 2: What new information has emerged about Cheryl Plochark's connection to Gary Felton?
Kath and Jim have always believed that there are more people out there who know what happened. Given what Cheryl has said about the supposed plans of the Nanup Four, Kath says it's even more of a reason to do a thorough search in Northcliffe.
You might remember retired detectives and Chantel's uncle, Barry McIntosh, and family friend Peter Greaves had just started a GoFundMe to raise money to get back to Northcliffe, where they've identified an area of bushland they believe could be a final resting place. Barry's still trying to raise the funds. But a few weeks ago, I got an email from a guy called Matt.
Well, I'm Matt Strickland. I'm the vice president of the FOLO organisation. which is a recently formed organisation charity. We help families look for their lost loved ones.
FOLLO stands for Find Our Lost Loved Ones. It's a pretty new group, but they've had a cracking start. The group formed after a team of volunteers banded together to look for a missing Belgian tourist named Celine Cremere, who disappeared while hiking near Philosopher Falls in Tasmania back in 2023. Their search led to the heartbreaking discovery of her remains in January 2026.
Matt was part of that search team.
None of us really knew each other before, but we all put our hand up and through that experience, we formed a bit of a bond and an alliance and we wanted to keep it going after that it all finished.
Then, four months later in May, in their first search under the Follow banner, they set out to find another missing person in Tasmania, a man named Peter Willoughby who'd become lost in bushland in the state's northeast in late 2025. It took less than two days for them to find Peter's remains.
I'm starting to doubt that there is closure. I think it's more the fact that you're just reducing that pain.
and providing just some answers to that question what happened to their family member but at the same time it is special to provide that it's a gift matt's got 30 years experience working in geology and exploration and his offer of help has been accepted by the mcdougall's and barry it'll be the first search outside of tasmania that he's been part of
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Chapter 3: How did the coronial inquest reveal details about the planned suicide?
So Barry's got some LIDAR imaging that people are going to help him with. So we're hoping we can employ that to actually maybe see something that's man-made.
The whole reason Matt travelled to Northcliffe for this visit is so he could see the area in person and get an idea of what he's dealing with. After spending two hours pushing through the scrub with him, I have an entirely new and different appreciation for what this search will involve. It's going to take months of planning, but it looks like it will go ahead in late September, 2026.
I'll be following the progress along the way, and I'll drop back into your podcast feeds when there's another update. In the meantime, if you have any information that you think could help find Chantelle and Leela McDougall, Simon Cadwill, aka Gary Felton, or Tony Popich, please get in touch. Details in the show notes.
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