Apr 6, 2026 · 35 min · 16 segments
A family friend and former policeman continues to search for answers for Jim and Cath McDougall decades after the Nannup four vanished. The family and friends of Chantelle McDougall try to find their…
By 2009, two years on with no sign of the four, the disappearance is with the missing persons unit in Western Australia.
Police had searched the blue house, but they didn't do a full forensic examination because too much time had passed.
They also missed opportunities to check CCTV footage after a possible sighting of the four.
But where the Nanup four went after they left the blue house remained a mystery.
Police have made inquiries nationally and abroad, and even followed up reports the group may have joined a religious sect.
Anyone with information about the four is asked to contact the missing persons unit.
On one of their visits to Shantell in Nanup, Gary had a conversation with Jim about the Glass House Mountains in the Queensland hinterland.
It's another place that attracts alternative people living in off-grid communities.
So in July that year, they hooked the caravan up to their four-wheel drive and headed north to Queensland, armed with stacks of posters with Shantell and Leila's face on them.
It's one of those things, you don't wanna give up hope.
Jim and Kath spent three months driving from Victoria to Queensland, putting those posters up in every town along the way.
It's crushing to think how desperate they must have been that they traveled thousands of kilometers because of a one-off conversation they had four years before.
It was worth a try.
Desperation, I guess.
By 2009, two years on with no sign of the four, the disappearance is with the missing persons unit in Western Australia.
Police had searched the blue house, but they didn't do a full forensic examination because too much time had passed.
They also missed opportunities to check CCTV footage after a possible sighting of the four.
But where the Nanup four went after they left the blue house remained a mystery.
Police have made inquiries nationally and abroad, and even followed up reports the group may have joined a religious sect.
Anyone with information about the four is asked to contact the missing persons unit.
On one of their visits to Shantell in Nanup, Gary had a conversation with Jim about the Glass House Mountains in the Queensland hinterland.
It's another place that attracts alternative people living in off-grid communities.
So in July that year, they hooked the caravan up to their four-wheel drive and headed north to Queensland, armed with stacks of posters with Shantell and Leila's face on them.
It's one of those things, you don't wanna give up hope.
Jim and Kath spent three months driving from Victoria to Queensland, putting those posters up in every town along the way.
It's crushing to think how desperate they must have been that they traveled thousands of kilometers because of a one-off conversation they had four years before.
It was worth a try.
Desperation, I guess.
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