November 20, 2024
The mother of missing man Jack McLennan has asked volunteer searchers to gather at Ficks Crossing on Saturday morning after “significant items” were found earlier this week.
Kellie Moody said the items, which were found several kilometres away from where his shoes were located earlier in the search, definitely belonged to her missing 27-year-old son.
“I can’t say what was found, but it was significant for my whole search to change,” Kellie said.
Jack went missing from the Ficks Crossing area on the evening of October 9.
Kellie told southburnett.com.au she had spoken to Jack three times that day, the last time about 8:45pm.
She said he sounded all right, although tired.
“He told me himself that he had hit his head,” Kellie said.
She was worried because he had drunk a few beers so she offered to pick him up, but he said he was all right.
The official search for Jack was scaled back on the weekend of October 19-20.
The extensive air and land operation used police divers, dogs, SES volunteers, a helicopter and drones.
During this first search, a pair of shoes were found near Ficks Crossing, and a hat near Macalister and McLucas streets, Murgon.
Kellie said searchers were back in the area on Monday and Tuesday, including SES volunteers.
“From day one, I have always said Jack’s got lost in the bush,” Kellie said.
“I will keep going on. It’s hell waking up every day … my life now is just searching bushland.
“But we need to have answers, no matter what. I am walking looking for bad things, looking for anything.”
Kellie said she had been told people, especially fit people like Jack, could survive in the bush for weeks if they had access to water.
“We have never given up hope but whatever happens I’m getting my son back,” she said.
She emphasised Jack had not been depressed and had been planning to stay with her on the weekend he went missing.
She wanted to thank Cr Heath Sander and his wife Rowena and their friends who had been searching this week; and she asked residents in the Ferris Road area, in particular, to check their properties again, especially any of the more dense bushland parts.
Kellie said people who would like to join the search should meet at 8:00am on Saturday (November 23) at the Ficks Crossing Recreation Park.
The search would be concentrating on the Ferris Road area.
- External link: Help Find Jack McLennan (Facebook)
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