Bonus: Mark Jones [Extended Interview]
5/8/202642 min
Mark Jones’ little brother Tony was hitchhiking to meet their other brother in 1982 when he made a final phone call back home & was never heard from again.
In this extended interview from the documentary series Outback Murder Highway, Mark shares his disappointment in the police investigation. He is confident someone has more information about what happened to his brother, and is hopeful they’ll come forward and give his family answers after four decades of searching.
This interview was conducted by Jo Townsend for the television series Outback Murder Highway - On Channel 9 at 8.30pm on Wednesday nights - from April 22 to May 13.
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First 90 secondsMark Jones· Guest0:00
[suspenseful music] They were on the trip of a lifetime, two young blokes, 20 and 22, traveling around Australia. I think the reality hit Tim quicker than the rest of us. I mean, it took 30 years before we heard the word suspect, and witnesses, multiple witnesses, growing numbers of witnesses. The Flinders Highway has gained a reputation as one of the, the most dangerous highways in the world. In a world of Ivan Milat and a, and a world of Wolf Creek, you know, these loom large in our minds. [gentle music] I'm Mark Jones. My brother Tony vanished in 1982, traveling from Townsville out to meet his brother in Mount Isa. And I'm here now to continue a decades-long search into what happened, what made him disappear all those years ago. When a person goes missing, no family is ready for that, and when we, when that happened to our family, that Tony just vanished, we found