How a work gang of prisoners and gruesome clue could unlock the mystery of three Aussies who vanished off the face of the earth Chantelle McDougall disappeared from WA in July 2007 Also missing are her daughter, friend and spiritual leader Retired cop Barry McIntosh set to search remote bushland READ MORE: Revelle Balmain disappearance: Breakthrough in mysterious cold case murder of model By Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:00, 26 May 2024 | Updated: 23:00, 26 May 2024 e-mail View comments The baffling mystery of how four people linked to a doomsday cult vanished off the face of the earth could be solved by a work gang of prisoners who made a gruesome discovery. Chantelle McDougall was last seen alive with cult leader Gary Felton, their six-year-old daughter Leela and friend Tony Popic in a remote area of Western Australia in July 2007. Ms McDougall, 27, had fallen under the spell of 45-year-old Felton, a British-born spiritualist who had assumed the identity of an English workmate called Simon Kadwell in 1986.
At the time of their disappearance, Ms McDougall and Leela had been living with Felton in a rundown farmhouse at Nannup, about 280km south of Perth , with 42-year-old Mr Popic. A coronial inquest into the foursome's disappearance held in December 2017 ended without a finding that the missing cult members were dead, let alone how they might have lost their lives. A retired policeman is on a mission to solve one of Australia's most baffling missing pe.
