
120: Rachel Funari: Bruny Island, Tasmania
On March 3, 2011, Rachel Funari - an American woman visiting Tasmania - stepped into that landscape, and vanished. She was 35, she was alone, and the last confirmed sighting was around 3:30 that afternoon, at a small shack beside the start of the Fluted Cape Walking Track.
Then - nothing. No phone call. No “made it back safe.” No trace of where she went next. Days later, when friends realize they hadn’t heard from her, a major search begins - land, sea, air - focused on the trails and steep coastline of Bruny Island.
Searchers comb dense brushland and cliff edges that drop hundreds of metres…
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