01 What Became of Jack? | Vanished
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ABC Australia
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When Jack's mate turns around, he's just… gone. Vanished. His mate says that's how fit 27-year-old Jack McLennan disappeared from a bush picnic spot 3 hours from Brisbane. But when searchers discover a trail of baffling clues, suspicions begin to deepen among friends and family.
They start questioning what this is — it doesn't seem like the average missing person's case to them. Could it be murder? Is it someone who's just gone missing? ABC journalist Rob Burgin picks up the case, determined to find out what became of Jack.
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| 0:42.3 | Okay, so it's nighttime and I'm in complete darkness out here in the bush. |
| 0:50.2 | There's insects clinging to my eyeballs. |
| 1:02.0 | And I know there's a waterhole just over there, but I can't really see it right now. I'm about three hours from Brisbane at a kind of picnic spot called Fix Crossing. |
| 1:09.0 | There is no one else around. to be honest I do feel a |
| 1:14.6 | little bit uneasy being out here by myself. That's because about 18 months ago at |
| 1:21.6 | almost this exact time of night in this exact spot a man just suddenly disappeared. He was 27 years old, a local who |
| 1:34.1 | lived in a town just down the road from here. His name was Jack McLennan. Jack was here to hang out |
| 1:42.7 | with a mate. They sang some beers. Jack's first major relationship |
| 1:49.0 | of his adult life had just broken down. And he was here to try and blow off some steam, |
| 1:55.0 | maybe forget about his worries. His mate says, one minute Jack's like 20 to 30 metres away, they're chatting and they're joking, |
| 2:05.6 | then the next minute he turns around and Jack has just vanished. |
| 2:12.6 | It's as if he's been swallowed up by the night or something. And since that moment, as far as I know, nobody else has set eyes on Jack McLennan. |
| 2:25.3 | He's just... gone. As soon as I heard about the mystery of what happened that night at Fix Crossing, |
| 2:46.0 | I felt compelled to find out more. |
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