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Breakthrough: Body Found In Search for Jayden Penno-Tompsett

5/13/202626 min

In December 2017, two young men took off on a drug-fuelled roadtrip to spend New Year's Eve in Cairns. One made it to the party - the other was never seen again. Now a shocking development could see this case finally solved.

In the final episode of this special series for Outback Murder Highway, investigative journalist Amelia Oberhardt dissects the mysterious disappearance of 22-year-old Jayden Penno-Tompsett who vanished in a tiny town off the Flinders Highway. The coroner ruled out foul play - but Jayden’s mum isn’t convinced and hired a private investigator to find new evidence. 

You can watch the Outback Murder Highway TV documentary series 8.30pm Wednesday on Channel 9  from April 22 to May 13.
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Clips

Remains Found During Filming
Mysterious Lights At Servo
Confirmation And New Questions
Last Sighting And Smashed Phone
Lucas’s Disappearing Act Account
Twelve Days, No Trace
A Direct Appeal For Witnesses
Stuck With Misadventure Finding

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Amelia Oberhardt· Guest0:00

    [tense music] 11 people murdered or missing on one 900-kilometer stretch of road. This is Australia's biggest cluster of unsolved murders. I'm Amelia Robehart, and I'm an investigative journalist from Queensland.

  2. Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:25

    I'm criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro.

  3. Xanthe Mallett· Host0:28

    And I'm forensic criminologist Dr. Xanthe Weston. Welcome to this Motive & Method special series for Outback Murder Highway.

  4. Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:36

    Welcome back to the fourth and final episode of our special series in Motive & Method, looking at the Outback Murder Highway. Investigative journalist Amelia Robehart, welcome back. Great to speak with you again.

  5. Amelia Oberhardt· Guest0:56

    Thanks for having me again.

  6. Tim Watson-Munro· Host0:58

    So this is the final investigation into a more recent case than the others, and there've been significant developments in the wake of the documentary investigation. Tell us about it.

  7. Amelia Oberhardt· Guest1:08

    There have indeed. Taking you now pretty forward from 1983, which is where we left Tony Jones, to only nine years ago, in 2017, when a young man named Jayden Pennou-Thompson went missing on a road trip between Newcastle and Cairns. This was, at the time, um, making news, a lot different to back then. Um, it was, you know, on

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