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Australian Story - Season 31 Episode 9 -
Lost, Part 1 (Celine Cremer)
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Lost, Part 1 (Celine Cremer)
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00:14Hello. The disappearance three years ago of a young Belgian bushwalker in the Tasmanian
00:21wilderness made headlines around the world. When 31-year-old Celine Cremer didn't return
00:28from what was meant to be a short hike, it set off a chain of events that took years to
00:33reach
00:33resolution. After the official search ended without luck, her best friend refused to give
00:40up and turned to a group of motley strangers for help. The more you get to know the Tasmanian
00:52wilderness, the more you begin to respect it. Because you do realise that things can happen
00:59in a heartbeat, you know. A good experience can turn sour so quickly.
01:05There are fears for a Belgian tourist missing in Tasmania who was last seen 11 days ago.
01:13I was just waiting for news. Never I expected to be still looking for her after two years
01:21and a half. Not knowing, I think, is the worst thing that a family could live.
01:33On vient essayer de retrouver une amie qui est rentrée dans ce bois et qui n'en est jamais
01:37sortie.
01:39When people go missing, the community feels it. People here in Tasmania and all over the country
01:47want to do something to help. We've got 27 volunteers here today. From all over Tasmania
01:55and from interstate.
01:58So this is a little bit the last chance that could possibly allow us to put a term to
02:06these questions without answers.
02:08OK.
02:11I know that this is an eagle in a haystack.
02:14You see that?
02:15Yeah, OK.
02:16Come over.
02:17Me?
02:18Yes.
02:18Hi, what's up?
02:19I've lost your words.
02:22She's got to be up there somewhere and it's just going to take the right person looking
02:26under the right log and it's going to be solved.
02:30You're not going to believe it.
02:32Someone call Ken.
02:33And everyone else, Connor.
02:34Fuck away.
02:51My sister, I'm on road trip, in the middle of Tasmania. I don't always have a network. I drive and
02:58try to walk.
03:01I don't want to live here in Belgium. It was too bad for her, not enough sun.
03:07It was really a burlagueuse. She spent a lot of time abroad.
03:12I take the ferry the 21st of July.
03:16So I'll have the time to answer better.
03:20For many young people in Europe, Australia is a dream.
03:23I think it's because it's not possible to go far from Europe except on the moon.
03:34I'll be back a day if I'm sure and certain, because I want to show you that to someone.
03:39I think it's beautiful.
03:44Bye.
03:44Bye.
03:50She has 30 years old when she is back to Australia.
03:56What is good with the film in Australia, is that it really is not bipolar.
03:59to selena arrived in australia in june 2022 going there by herself i was definitely her biggest
04:09challenge she had an adventurous mind but was also not really self-confident and
04:18will be scared easily she stayed in sydney for about six months working as a waitress in a hotel
04:51i could really feel that she felt really free and she was doing better and better and building
04:58a lot of self-confidence le panorama envo vraiment la chandelle and then she did a world trip from
05:11sydney to tasmania coals bay it's one of those places that when you arrive you don't really
05:22want to leave because it's just a really beautiful way of life i think the saline just fell in love
05:28with the area and the people i worked with her full-time at the restaurant well done she's a lot
05:38of fun not afraid to like laugh at herself not shy at all loud but like good loud yeah like
05:48she had
05:49this energy that people would just gravitate to her cheers she really loved that place so happy she
06:00felt in the nature with all those animals yeah she was really excited about it
06:10i met celine when i was one year old one and a half at the kindergarten school
06:21she's always been a bit off track like she always being herself i'd say
06:29we always share that together that we love travel and we were meant to meet in darwin
06:38she had booked a ferry for the 21st of june to go back to the mainland
06:43and she would travel the west coast in the meantime
06:51so we went to festival down in hobart her birthday was soon after that on june 13th
06:59so it was a way to celebrate her birthday and also a farewell because she was then planning to continue
07:07on with her travels and exploring all the places out west
07:14she was excited to have her own car and go car camping and stuff i think it made her feel
07:20very
07:20self-sufficient and yeah proud of herself i think
07:25uh j'ai tout j'ai tout quitté mes amis mon logement je vis dans ma voiture et je fais
07:32comme je peux avec le réseau
07:33je te jure c'est galère mais je me démerde
07:37i knew we'd keep in touch but i also knew that she was busy hiking and exploring so i didn't
07:43really know when to expect to hear from her again aujourd'hui donc je vais mettre en route
07:48parce qu'il fait tard il fait noir assez tôt je te réponds un peu mieux plus tard et je
07:54t'expliquerai
07:55un peu le début de mes aventures en road trip bisous mabiche i bought my flight tickets for darwin
08:04on the 20th of june so i was super exciting to share the news with her that like it was
08:11official
08:12now that i was going to meet her but i didn't get through
08:32after two days eventually i called our friends in sydney because she hadn't
08:38connected to any social and i asked him to call on her phone he told me that she was left
08:47on the
08:47voicemail but not to panic too much because um tasmania is wild there is a lot of blank spots
08:55i received a message from justine saying hey i'm looking for celine she's my friend i haven't heard
09:02from her in a while and i wasn't alarmed then i just took a screenshot and sent it to celine
09:09justine
09:11m'a contacté en disant je n'ai pas de réponse de celine donc voila assez rapidement je me suis
09:18tracassée
09:20so i was like okay let's just call the police better for nothing than for a reason and usually
09:26you know it's someone's out traveling i didn't really think it was that big of a deal and then um
09:36yeah j'avais déjà a très mauvais très mauvaise impression et je pensais que voilà c'était quand
09:48même qu'il y avait quelque chose de très très grave qui s'était passé
09:57when people are backpacking from other countries it's probably normal to have a bit of a gap in
10:01communications um we understood that she spoke to her mom on the 16th of june and it wasn't until
10:07the 26th of june friends of celine reported her missing ma première réaction ça a été le déni
10:18il faut un temps pour que l'esprit se rende compte que la formation est réelle
10:26phone data said that she'd visited waratah on the 17th of june
10:31waratah is a small town on the western fringes of tasmania it's really the kind of first town you
10:39get to where you're exploring the west coast or like the wild west we have a population of about 230
10:48odd
10:49it's a very much of a tourist town when you see the place under snow you think it's out of
10:57a painted
10:58postcard there's mining industry around the town and also some pretty significant um you know landmarks
11:06for people to visit and see like philosopher falls
11:11we found celine's car at the philosopher falls car park on the 27th
11:16there was a lot of camping gear or hiking gear in her car which kind of told us that she
11:21perhaps
11:21wasn't prepared for an overnight stay that she'd gone for for a short walk
11:26that's when i started to realize something was definitely wrong
11:34we found out that they had found her car parked at philosopher falls
11:40so we drove straight to waratah to try to figure out what was going on we arrived at philosopher falls
11:50and the police had it blocked off and they turned us around we head back into town we went into
11:57the
11:58roadhouse and the ladies there showed us cctv footage of her celine walked in she was getting gas
12:09she bought a latte and a carrot cake and she was just chatting with
12:14the ladies as she does just super open super friendly police are searching for a belgian tourist
12:22who is feared to be missing from a walking track on the state's west coast so the preliminary search
12:28obviously focuses on the philosopher falls tracks that was clearly the most obvious place where she'd
12:32been wet and cold weather has been hampering the aerial search for the missing tourist the weather at
12:38time hindered a lot of the normal procedural things we do but the ses used atvs we had swift water
12:45rescue so to search the waterfalls even right down to things like metal detectors to search for phones
12:52unfortunately despite all that there was no further sign of celine discovered police hold grave
12:59concerns for missing belgian tourist celine cremer saying it's unlikely she survived tasmania's unforgiving
13:07wilderness i didn't believe she could get lost because like nowadays with all the technology and
13:16things it was impossible i had a lot of questions so after two weeks my friend gabriel and myself traveled
13:25to tasmania to meet with the police and see what was happening we were pretty sure at this stage that
13:32who would bring celine back with us celine je suis un ami elle depuis tout petit pour moi c'est
13:40normal
13:41de comprendre ce qui s'est passé parce que les amis ce n'est pas que que pour que pour
13:46les moments
13:46de de fête arian sign of paper for the police to talk to me as a close family member they
13:54replied to all my
13:55questions they show me what they were doing how they were investigating
14:04the initial search effort went from the 26th of june right through to the 10th of july and that was
14:11the
14:11decision to suspend the search formally it's not an easy decision it's certainly not one that anyone
14:16involved takes lightly yeah since since the beginning i do i do knew that uh my daughter has passed away
14:26and i told the the the tasmanian police that they don't have to to in french we say to put
14:33gloves to
14:34talk to you i don't know if it's the same expression in english but i i was uh sure that
14:39my my my daughter
14:41has passed away had passed away we don't actually ever say no this is closed um a missing person
14:48remains open and if we get new information or there's new technologies or something we'll always
14:52go back and research and that's what happened authorities have reactivated the search for belgian
14:58tourist celine cremer once we had the the more specific data on where the phone last talked to the
15:05satellite we actually utilized near cadaver to help out at that point as well we searched the area for
15:13an additional three days but again sadly no further signs of celine were located there was nothing
15:20credible to suggest anything other than celine unfortunately made a mistake and met sadly with
15:28um with the tragic end through simply through misadventure
15:34when the search ended justine kept going she had one goal in mind and that was to find her best
15:43friend
15:45i understood the police had to stop searching but it was of course a bit frustrating because
15:54she's my friend and i want her to be fine and that's the reason why we continued on our own
16:07that's also the reason why i decided to move to tasmania i needed answers it's not just that i
16:14wanted it i needed some answers and i still need the closure i stayed in colesby for a bit more
16:23than six
16:24months getting to know a bit more the town and spending time with her friends she had relentless
16:34determination to find her friend and she was not going to stop she's just bombarded just questions after
16:41questions she was trying anything and everything from every angle i was trying to find some people
16:56who could actually help me with the investigation justine asked if i would be interested in reviewing
17:06their case after she saw me investigating the disappearance of theo hayes in byron bay there's a lot of
17:13information in selene's case that needed to be examined in more depth i contacted ken during tasmanian
17:22winter 2024 he was happy to investigate and selene's case free of charge i do these special projects
17:34that are helping people the police investigations are exhausted and they've really got nowhere else to
17:40turn ken was engaged by arian to help search once we'd formally suspended and we have certainly been
17:47collaborating with ken to share information i conducted a very detailed forensic type study
17:54of her emails the photographs most importantly her map data and that was the thing that i was really
18:01focused on because that map data had all of her last known gps coordinates the gps data is actually
18:10created by location services being switched on inside celine's gmail account
18:19we know she was in the southwest driving and then she came inland through several small towns and she
18:27arrived at waratah around lunchtime on june 17. we know that when she got to waratah she was by herself
18:36because she was captured on cctv in the roadhouse she was only literally there for a few minutes and i
18:43think
18:43that was the the point that she probably made a decision to go out and have a look at the
18:48philosopher
18:48for falls which was just located outside of town
18:57i noticed that there was a search underway for a missing bushwalker and i was quite upset when i
19:03realized that they hadn't had any luck finding her
19:07it's a type of mystery where it's like
19:10one step away from being solved and that's why i took it on so i've just gotten to the philosopher's
19:18falls car park this spot here where i've left my car was exactly where celine parked her car
19:24on the 17th of june 2023 at 1 59 pm i'm a sixth generation tasmanian a youtuber and adventurer
19:34my youtube channel is mainly focused on the wilds of tasmania could be gold prospecting or mysteries
19:43historical stuff she was in her car for 19 minutes exactly because the next gps point was at 218 at
19:51the start of the track
19:55the philosopher falls track in the beginning is very open and you've got beautiful forest on either side of
20:01you it's definitely got like a magical aspect that draws you in to explore it so you walk for say
20:1115
20:11minutes you go down a hill you cross over the arthur river on a bridge
20:20and then you're on the old water race the water race is a man-made excavation from the old miners
20:28which generally follows around the contour of a hill it's a bit of a footpath you follow this for
20:36some distance and you'll get to the steps that lead down to the right and this is where philosophers
20:42falls are at the bottom of the steps now at the time that celine weren't missing they weren't signed
20:49i think what's what's happened is she had a look at the waterfalls then she's come back up the stairs
20:56obviously on her phone she's seen the magnet dam she's seen the walking trail
21:01because she's curious instead of going left back to the car she's gone right
21:10so this is all very new signage none of this stuff was here
21:14when celine did her walk celine chose to continue along the abandoned water race
21:22and explore it's a well-established trial in the beginning but after about 500 meters to 800 meters
21:31it starts to become less and less visible so these gps coordinates here at 3 32 pm indicate that celine
21:40had walked a couple of kilometers away over near magnet dam apparently it started raining at around 3 pm
21:48so that could have been a dark cloud that came in and kind of signaled to celine oh it's getting
21:55dark
21:55now starting to rain i better start making my way back to the car i think that's when she pulled
22:03out
22:03the google maps and realized that there is no data on google maps as to the track that she's on
22:10she's just this blue dot on a data list screen there's a magnet dam and there's the philosopher's
22:19falls logo and there's also a car park logo but they're kilometers away from where she is
22:26she turns sudden right and she she suddenly goes off the trail and up the hill rather than continue on
22:36this
22:37way she's gone up there and the only reason that she would do that is because at this point it
22:44appears
22:45that you're going away from philosopher's falls but if you go up that way you head towards philosopher's falls
22:58and then back to the car she was looking for the most direct route to get back to that car
23:05park as
23:06soon as possible because it was getting dark she was really thinking i gotta get out of here
23:11this level of darkness would be very similar for celine heading up the hill i think there's probably
23:19maybe 20 gps points so you can actually follow
23:22a minute by minute and calculate the distance and how far she was moving up that hill what you can
23:30see here is the last ping that celine's phone recorded at 4 18 pm on june 17 and you can
23:38see
23:38where she was in relation to the car park it's about two kilometers away as the crow flies we don't
23:46have
23:46any other gps data because from that point onwards that phone was no longer in range
23:56now i know that the emergency services have done a gridded metal detect at the site of celine's last gps
24:05points but they didn't find anything
24:13on the night that celine went up the hill she could have dropped her phone somewhere and was unable
24:19to retrieve it or she had her phone on her and seek shelter as it got dark she could have
24:28been walking
24:28unaided in the days to follow or sadly perished that night
24:35it was down close to zero degrees there was enough rain to certainly make everything very wet
24:43there is a chance she could have got changed but this was the last known clothing that we have seen
24:48her wearing so we believe she's wearing reasonably warm clothes but i don't think enough clothing to
24:58withstand freezing temperatures it would be a horrible situation to be in
25:07there's all sorts of crazy conspiracies about what happened to celine one is that someone followed her
25:14in to the waterfalls and abducted her i guess well if that happened they were smart enough to unlock her
25:23phone create a trail up the hill make it look like it happened just before sunset it's so unlikely that
25:30you can't give it credit the suggestion of our play is nothing more than speculation there is strong
25:37circumstantial evidence that celine got lost and the risk of her having an accident was very high once it
25:44got dark and cold and the panic set in my biggest fear was that sitting might have been kept somewhere
25:52and
25:52suffering so yeah i really wanted to make sure that wasn't the case and can help me in that way
26:03je pense depuis le début que que c'est un accident je dis comme on dit en français c'est
26:11la faute a pas de chance
26:29la faiblesse de de l'enquête dans l'ensemble était que les intervenants cherchaient chacun dans leur quest
26:39sans vraiment partager les informations the searches have been pretty thorough the problem is you're
26:46working with vegetation that's very thick and there's a lot of kilometers that need to be done in
26:51order to accurately say that it's been searched and that just hasn't happened so i said we need a big
26:59group of professionals to to come in here and to do a coordinated search it's going to take will
27:05it's going to take resources proper mapping to do it properly the search was planned for december and
27:12i thought what i can do with my youtube channel is put a call out to try to get some
27:17of the best walkers
27:18in tassie or wherever around the mainland to come and help celine's friends and family have been busy
27:24fundraising and organizing a multi-day search for december if you're capable and interested in helping
27:30to cover more area your help would be greatly appreciated the video had maybe 800 000 views
27:38or something within a couple of weeks like it went crazy we received probably more than 200 mails
27:45in the next day after he released the video
27:51unfortunately that started causing a lot of weekend worries coming out and doing solo searches
27:59and the town were concerned that they would have another one to go and search for
28:06i just needed to reassure everybody that it's going to be handled by professionals so everything's going
28:11to be done in a really careful and sensitive manner i just want to thank everyone firstly for coming
28:19i said the only way we can do it is to make sure we vet all the volunteers that are
28:24putting their hands up
28:24and we individually select them based on our criteria we have to assure the police that we're
28:32not going to put people at risk whilst police aren't involved in this search and we're not
28:37coordinating it in any way we're actually providing you know some expert forensic advice is obviously if
28:42you find something three-step photographs with the ruler in next to it we need you obviously to record where
29:09it's not about who gets to find celine it's about everyone banding together and
29:19hopefully we can solve this case and we can get the closure without closure then this mystery just
29:27continues forever
29:33i was a straggler and i just stepped over and i didn't even finish that step and i just looked
29:39down where my boot was going and there was
29:44the prize you okay yeah i was like how is it possible it's incredible for me it was a miracle
29:57hi
29:57a gem
29:58hello
29:59to the censor
30:00so
30:00April
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