Three men walked into Western Australia’s vast bushland seven years apart, and were never seen again

Guido Michel, Wayne Parker and Nicholas Pavlidis were all very different men.

Michel was an electrician in Fremantle and had two children living in Spain.

Parker was a beloved “homebody” grandfather who lived in Mount Barker. And Pavlidis was an avid reader who had recently paid off his house.

Yet, separate coronial inquests have found all three men met the same fate.

Their cars were found abandoned in some of Western Australia’s thick and wild bushland, and they were never seen again.

The WA Coroner’s Court recently delivered its findings into the presumed deaths of all three men, and found they shared more similarities than differences.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has previously laid out the common factors in its own research.

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