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Speaker 1: Police have confirmed a reported sighting of missing man Tom

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Speaker 1: Phillips and his three children in the Muddle Karpa area

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Speaker 1: last week is indeed credible. Phillips and his children, Ember,

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Speaker 1: Maverick and Jada have been missing for almost three years.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time that all three children have

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Speaker 1: been cited with their dad, the first time they've been

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Speaker 1: seen together since twenty twenty two. But police searchers over

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Speaker 1: the weekend turned up nothing more of significance. Chris Budge

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Speaker 1: is the private investigator still trying to find the family

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Speaker 1: enders with us now Calder Chris Gooday, Jack? How significant

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Speaker 1: is this development?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's pretty good. There's three things to

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Speaker 2: pick up from this one. Firstly, as you mentioned that

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Speaker 2: the kids have been seen, and there's been a lot

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Speaker 2: of speculation of where they may or may not be,

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Speaker 2: but it's really great that they've been cited. The second

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Speaker 2: one being is that the police have responded. I understand

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Speaker 2: from the media that's been is that the police responded

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Speaker 2: with motor vehicles on the Thursday and then we're able

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Speaker 2: to follow up with helicopter's on the Friday. Certainly, the

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Speaker 2: community people that I spoke to on set today we're

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Speaker 2: well aware of the police were around the third one though,

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Speaker 2: as I guess, the sad one is that there are

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Speaker 2: still people helping Tom. Tom has been moving around an

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Speaker 2: open site in vehicles, whether during the dark or during

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Speaker 2: the day. So I think with a normal escape and

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Speaker 2: evasion concept is that he's gone to ground or he's

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Speaker 2: got a safe hole and he's just been sitting there

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Speaker 2: for the two or three days for us to die down.

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Speaker 2: Police will then head back and you know, at the

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Speaker 2: end of the three D operation is there he'll now

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Speaker 2: pop out and go to wherever he has been hiding.

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Speaker 2: But as an overall, I think it's great that the

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Speaker 2: kids have been seen. The police are reacting, but he

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Speaker 2: got out smartness.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do we know from this report about the

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Speaker 1: kids state of health? You know, they look all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can only speculate on what the reports are,

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Speaker 2: but if they were seen in the open walking around,

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Speaker 2: that's a good sign. I understand they were seen around

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Speaker 2: him at seven pm, so it's still daylight so that day.

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Speaker 2: Are all good signs. There were certainly towards the end

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Speaker 2: of last year there was speculation that the two girls

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Speaker 2: who had gone down to Gloria of ail and it

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Speaker 2: was only the young fellow that was with his dad

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Speaker 2: for the photo around around the dairy that we saw.

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Speaker 2: We believe the sun was there. But it's good that

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Speaker 2: we can you've actually seen the three and hopefully the

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Speaker 2: wider family going to take that is a good sign.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like a wild piece of speculation. So

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Speaker 1: what would you like to see police do to try

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Speaker 1: and make more progress on this.

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Speaker 2: I think the catch we've got is that there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of other stuff happening around the area. They've now

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Speaker 2: got sightings that people are at least safe, but also

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Speaker 2: that they've seen so I think the way through this

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Speaker 2: is continued intelligence, proactive approach in regards to response. So

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Speaker 2: everything that's credible, and I think it's the first time

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Speaker 2: police have used that word credible, which is a really

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Speaker 2: great word to use. And it's good that they're still

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Speaker 2: on the pack. So keep doing the good work. Community. Please,

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Speaker 2: if you see them, let the police know immediately by

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Speaker 2: one on one, and I think they're going to be

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Speaker 2: found by somebody accidentally seeing them, as in this case

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Speaker 2: on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Very good. Thanks for your time, Chris, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: There's private investigator Chris Budge For more from Heather Duplessy

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