UPDATE | Expanse: The Nannup Four - Hope on the horizon
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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. But if it is true, it means there were people who knew more about Gary's plans than they've ever admitted. It could also mean that there are people out there who have information which could lead to answers about where Chantelle, Leela, Tony and Gary are. I've spoken to WA police following this article, who say they're looking into it but can't give any more details except that the case remains open.
I haven't been able to confirm if they knew this already or if Cheryl gave them this information when she spoke to them. As I was reading this, I felt almost winded. The first people in my mind were Jim and Kath McDougall, Chantel's parents and grandparents to Leela. I actually called Kath after to check in. She said she and Jim were blindsided by this new information. Cheryl has never contacted them and they'd never heard of another follower providing Gary with a euthanasia drug. But she's hopeful police will follow it up and that it might create some new leads.
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.
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