It frightens me that if a better job had been done cleaning up the scene and disposing of the personal effects, this might be an unexplained disappearance right now. It just struck me, and I came out in goosebumps.
Jesse wasn't working in tv right now (though he did have AFL work, that's probably not the kind of gig where they chase you up and check on you if you no show). He and his housemates had frictions over cleanliness of the shared space. It was early days with Luke, so he may have been spending half the time over at his place, anyway.
And Luke, we don't know much about his living situation, whether he shared or lived alone. We know he was going to longhaul flights, so maybe his workmates would have been a different set to the ones he knew closely. Flight attendants don't work a nine to five, every new flight is to a new place with an assigned set of faces you might or might not know well.
I'm not saying they wouldn't have been missed, but the possibility of it going longer without it being recognised that something was seriously wrong frightens me. Would family and friends have been told that there was no evidence there was anything wrong? Would they have been written off as young people in love, consenting and competent adults, voluntary missing?
It didn't go that way, and they were found, but sometimes, the potential ways something could have gone differently are terrifying.
MOO