Australia Jim Donnelly, 43yo Missing suspicious circumstances. NZ, 21 June 2004.

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I was very surprised that he didn’t already have a thread on here:

Jim Donnelly was only 43yo when he went missing at his job under mysterious circumstances. The weeks following up to his disappearance he was also acting very strangely. He left behind two kids and a wife.

Questions linger over discovery of missing man’s hard hat.

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He says police learned Donnelly had arrived at work as normal that day but his behaviour was unusual.

“He was acting strangely at his locker and when he was seen walking up the gantry, like he was trying to hide from people.

“Jim went into an office he shared with other people and when they arrived he wasn’t there.

“The muffin he’d bought for lunch was sitting on his desk.”

 

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On the day Jim went missing, Tracey called him at work about 8am and became increasingly worried when she didn’t hear back. Jim had missed a 9am meeting and was nowhere to be found, yet his car was still parked at the mill carpark. He was reported missing about 6pm.

Tracey believed he may have had an accident, but the theory shifted. Search and rescue teams thought he may have had a mental breakdown and was actively evading them.

Jim had been behaving strangely in the days before his disappearance. Tracey and Jim had planned to spend the night at an Auckland hotel on the Saturday, but out of nowhere he said he had a meeting to go to.

A Saturday night meeting made no sense to Tracey, but no matter how hard she tried to find out more, Jim wouldn’t tell her where he was going. He hired a suit and headed off. It’s still not clear why he needed the suit.

Things between the pair didn’t get any better the next day, when again Jim said he had to divert a “crisis and a waste”. Tracey was confused.”

The lost Jim Donnelly