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Strike Force Zaventem investigates suspicious death of Mark Akers
The Daily Advertiser
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7/3/2025
Strike Force Zaventem is established to investigate the suspicious death of Mark Akers, a Queensland man found dead on the side of the road near Jerilderie, in southern NSW, in June 2025.
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Appealing for some more public information in relation to the death of a male, he was
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located on the side of the Muir Highway, approximately 11 kilometres south of Giroudary, on Tuesday
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the 17th of June, around 12.35pm, we found that gentleman after the information we had
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received from the public.
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I can confirm now that that gentleman's name is Mr Mark Ackers, a 44 year old man from
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Brisbane in Queensland, and the strike force cementer has been established for the
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7th of June, and was believed to be travelling from Brisbane in Queensland through to Melbourne,
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being accompanied by a passenger.
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He was travelling in his black 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser 200 series, and that vehicle
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is a very distinctive vehicle.
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It's totally black with a bull bar, driving lights on the front, and above the windscreen
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there's some pink stickers written across the top of the windscreen.
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And we're appealing today for persons in the community that may have any information surrounding,
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by the sighting that vehicle from the time it entered New South Wales, or having any information
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around that vehicle.
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I can confirm today that we've seized that vehicle and that's being forensically tested.
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It's performing part of our investigation surrounding the circumstances and the death of Mr Ackers.
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The strike force of Ventum so far, through previous appeal that we've had, have received certain information from members of the public,
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which have led us to a number of lines of inquiry.
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Also in relation to the death of Mr Ackers, the initial results of the postmortem have suggested
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that he's been hit by a vehicle, and we're treating his death, as I said previously, as suspicious
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at this stage.
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Again, this is a public appeal for anyone who may have information that may be able to come
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forward and provide us with that information, no matter how small they believe it may be.
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And we're particularly interested in the movements of Mr Ackers from 2.30am on the 16th of June,
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early hours of the 16th of June, where we believe he left a service station on South East Street
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at Derilderie, and then continued south from Derilderie towards Finlay.
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And it's in this particular area that we're focusing our investigation at the moment, and
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we're trying to piece together the circumstances surrounding what happened after Mr Ackers left
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at Derilderie, up until when we were notified by members of the public that there was a
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person on the side of the road, 11km south of Derilderie.
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So that timeframe, and I'll reinforce this, that timeframe is roughly between 2.30am on
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the 16th of June, until we located Mr Ackers deceased at 12.35pm on Tuesday the 17th of June.
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So that requirement was the case last four hours come on Friday.
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So if you're wanting to place an opportunity, you don't feel the opportunity for others to
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see now without their problems and have a job.
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So um, this working was is within 15.30am on a 17th of June's small했는데.
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