Radio Brisvaani
The family of missing dad Aaron Flynn have enlisted an Aboriginal tracker to help them search for the Sunshine Coast man who vanished without trace in the blistering central Queensland gemfields.
They hope the tracker and 25 SES volunteers, who will tomorrow search a final parcel of land, will uncover clues to the whereabouts of Mr Flynn, 29, who was last heard from on November 11 when he sent his two-year-old daughter a text goodnight as he made his way to Charters Towers near Townsville for a family funeral.
He was spotted the next day walking along the road from Rubyvale with a jerry can in his hand.
Despite an extensive police, SES and community search, he’s not been seen since.
Police called off the search, saying expert advice was Mr Flynn could not have survived the more than a week he’s been missing if he was still in the bush where there’s little water and temperatures have topped 40C.
Family members hired a helicopter to continue the search for Mr Flynn but his sister Renee Napthali said they failed to find a trace of him.
Now the family have turned to hiring an Aboriginal tracker and hoping a final search by the SES of land they could not access will help them find Mr Flynn.
The family have already wallpapered central Queensland shops and truck stops with posters appealing for information and spent the last week checking CCTV along major routes of any clues he had passed that way.
She has also contacted Mt Isa police about using a specially-trained sniffer dog who can detect dead bodies, but hoped that was a last resort.
“We need to bring him home,” Mrs Napthali said.
