That day she was with an accountant all day working on the end-of-financial year accounts for the business. She thought she knew where her husband was. When Mandy woke the next morning she was alone, but didn't worry.
He couldn't get an appointment until the Tuesday, but Con told Mandy he'd go in early on the Monday and see if any spots had opened up. ( ABC News: Sean Warren)Ĭon had been battling a persistent headache for a couple of weeks and his doctor had said he needed a scan. Mandy Whitlock was married to her husband for more than 50 years before he disappeared from the side of the road at Mount Buller. "I find it more likely that there has been some involvement of a third party or third parties and something has happened to Russell and Carol and they have either been concealed in that area … or taken from that area," he says. While Inspector Stamper says that doesn't mean a flight didn't occur, it does mean if it did happen, it's a flight that has also left no digital trace.Īfter months of searching and investigating the disappearances, what Inspector Stamper has been left with is a long list of things that haven't been found, including Russell's phone and drone, any drug crops, any hint that this was a staged disappearance, any suspect or any item at all connected to Russell or Carol.Īnd it is all that missing information along with the burnt-out tent, that leads Inspector Stamper to suspect foul play.
Russell had an app on his phone for the drone, but had not uploaded any footage to his account from that Wonnangatta trip.Īnother theory is that if Russell's drone went down in bushland, the pair might have got lost looking for it.īut police have not been able to find any flight path data from the trip.
Several theories as to the cause of the disappearance had been offered, in a place with a history of missing persons, but police struggled to find firm leads early in the investigation.The other issue that casts doubt on this theory is the drone itself. It took days for their burnt-out campsite to be reported to police. The last contact they had with the outside world was through Mr Hill’s high-frequency radio as they set up camp in the Wonnangatta Valley, a secluded pocket of the Victorian Alpine National Park without mobile phone reception. On March 20 last year, Mr Hill and Ms Clay, aged in their 70s, vanished in Victoria’s stunning high country. And potentially, they’re the only one that knows about it as well.” “But my belief is that the person that carried out this is probably just an ordinary member of the community, who’s operating in a normal job, but carrying this significant load on their mind.
“Everything seems to point towards this being some sort of confrontation, which has started as an argument maybe. “My belief here is that this was random,” said Detective Inspector Andrew Stamper, head of Victoria Police’s missing persons squad.
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