Australia Australia - Charles Morton, 46, Hughenden, Qld, 15 Aug 2014

Two months after he vanished, there is still no sign of missing grazier Charles Morton

October 11, 2014


WHEN you call Strathtay Station a man’s voice speaks to you on the answering machine.

The voice says you have reached the home of Charles and Kathleen Morton, and you are asked to leave a message.

The voice is that of a missing grazier, who vanished from his 40,000ha property, 120km north of Hughenden, two months ago.

Mr Morton’s wife Kathleen, who was visiting family in Germany at the time of his disappearance, is not ready to delete the recording of her husband’s voice.

She hasn’t given up hope that he will walk through the homestead’s front door.

The couple married five years ago.

She told the Townsville Bulletin the isolated property has been “too quiet” since Charlie disappeared.

“I have no idea what has happened to him. Right now I am just taking it day by day,” she said.



A family favourite photograph of missing grazier Charles Morton on Strathtay Station .

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...r-charles-morton/story-fnihsrf2-1227087228523

"Charlie Morton was a reclusive, hardworking farmer when he disappeared without a trace from his cattle station two years ago.

But the 46-year-old had a secret - 20 years earlier he was the key witness in a massive drug bust that sent several high-ranking mafia gangsters to jail.

Now his family is pushing for a coronial inquest to investigate whether he was murdered in a revenge hit, instead of killing himself as police assumed, the Courier Mail reported.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nd-property-executed-Mafia.html#ixzz4QKWTM8oi

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Charlie’s disappearance still puzzles


One of the theories surrounding Charlie’s disappearance is that underworld figures “took him out” following his 1991 reporting of a marijuana crop on the property to police.

As he could only show police a location, not any names associated with the crop, this wasn’t taken seriously.

Charters Towers police concluded, in a report prepared for the coroner, that Charlie walked off to a remote part of the property and took his own life, based on the fact that a bolt action .22 rifle was missing from the gun safe.