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FLASHBACK: Jack’s desperate parents, Ross McLennan and Kellie Moody, began putting up posters around Murgon in October<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 20, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“I can’t say what was found, but it was significant for my whole search to change,”\u00a0 Kellie said.<\/p>\n

Jack went missing from the Ficks Crossing area on the evening of October 4.<\/p>\n

Kellie told southburnett.com.au she had spoken to Jack three times that day, the last time about 8:45pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She said he sounded all right, although tired.<\/p>\n

“He told me himself that he had hit his head,” Kellie said.<\/p>\n

She was worried because he had drunk a few beers so she offered to pick him up, but he said he was all right.<\/p>\n

The official search for Jack was scaled back on the weekend of October 19-20.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The extensive air and land operation used police divers, dogs, SES volunteers, a helicopter and drones.<\/p>\n

During this first search, a pair of shoes were found near Ficks Crossing, and a hat near Macalister and McLucas streets, Murgon.<\/p>\n

Kellie said searchers were back in the area on Monday and Tuesday, including SES volunteers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“From day one, I have always said Jack’s got lost in the bush,” Kellie said.<\/p>\n

“I will keep going on. It’s hell waking up every day … my life now is just searching bushland.<\/p>\n

“But we need to have answers, no matter what. I am walking looking for bad things, looking for anything.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“We have never given up hope but whatever happens I’m getting my son back,” she said.<\/p>\n

She emphasised Jack had not been depressed and had been planning to stay with her on the weekend he went missing.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The search would be concentrating on the Ferris Road area.<\/p>\n