I don’t necessarily take some random farmer saying “pretty sure I checked there” as being 100% gospel. To be really sure a car isn’t on a 1000km2 property would need a full week of searching… not an afternoon’s search.
The property owner, which BTW, his property is HUGE, isn't a "random farmer".
These property owners are generational and MOST property owners know each other over generations, or at the very least, know each other by name.
Farners Know when another owner is away from their property, especially the workers who work for them.
He didn't actually say "pretty sure I checked there" at all. He WASNT searching for Tayla in an afternoon search at all that day.
His property is massive, owners with lands like that DONT go "checking" the whole area everyday. It's impossible.
They basically move cattle from one area to another, or do work in one area over a week or two, then move onto another area the following week.
What was likely to have occurred was, on his last run in that area the car was found, he could have been dropping feed for his cattle, mending fences, etc, Which he would have done a fortnight before. There's been heavy rain and flooding out that way.
He actually said, "the car wasn't there 12 days ago". So that's indicative of exactly what farmers do, go out to drop food for livestock once a week or once a fortnight, depending on the weather conditions. Or moving herd. Or repairing fences. Or cutting down trees.
Some of these properties are so huge that main roads, from one town to another, go STRAIGHT THROUGH these properties.
The innocent property owner, found her car and if if wasnt for the fact it was left there, Tayla would be still missing.
Someone dropped that car and her there and it wasn't Tayla herself, is my view.
