The police officers start off by giving me a bit of a rundown about how missing people are reported, and then we get to the four.

As per any missing persons investigation, proof of life checks are conducted, and what a proof of life check is to, to look for footprints that someone would leave, banking records, uh, phone records, things of that nature.

And those initial checks have been unable to establish where they may be.

There was a delay in this report being received, and the difficulties with, with things like that is missed opportunities in relation to, um, let's say, CCTV inquiries, um, witness accounts, people's recollections, and other difficulties that were experienced in, in this investigation involve the factor of multi-jurisdictional investigation, being the report of traveling overseas and as well as eastern states and really the absence of, of any real evidence in the initial inquiry.

And so what I mean by that is the residence they had been living in had been left in a tidy state.

The notes had been left there, but there really wasn't anything else to suggest what had happened to the group.

What were police able to find out?

Mr. Felton, uh, was last, uh, sighted around the end of June.