In 2021, 25-year-old Jackson Stacker was found dead in a cow paddock near Byron Bay with a hunting knife in his chest and his skull separated 13 metres from his body. The police believe the carefree man likely died by suicide. But in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night, his grief stricken parents Sandey MacFarlane and Ian Stacker argue that conclusion doesn’t “make sense” and raise the possibility of something much more sinister.
“Nothing made sense. I spoke to him the last day he was alive and he was fine,” Sandey said. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
“It just came across to us that there’s, there’s other possibilities of what could’ve happened here,” Ian said. “We think that, perhaps he got involved with, at this doof, someone in the drug trade that had left some stuff in his van. “You know, Jackson left that doof prematurely, um, and left behind a few people that he transported there.
“Just the way that his van was found. It was totally trashed. You know, like, it was like it had been strip searched.
” Ian and Sandey believe Jackson’s ransacked van suggests evidence of foul play. The van was found at the Sleepy Hollow rest stop, 120 metres from where Jackson’s body was discovered. Jackson had travelled to the idyllic Byron Bay in NSW from Melbourne, living out of a van and partying with friends.
In a message to Sandey, he said he was mingling with “beautiful” and “intelligen.
