In 1982, backpacker Tony Jones planned to meet his brother Tim in Mount Isa. But Tony never arrived. He was last seen in the dusty, red-dirt town of Hughenden where, 14 years later, abattoir worker Andy Allbury would boast to police that he'd murdered more than a dozen people. Was Tony one of those victims? Allbury is a dream suspect for the police - and he confessed. But there are loose ends and several other leads, and Tony's family have spent decades acting as amateur detectives, slowly piecing together a picture of police incompetence, opportunistic killers attracted to lonely outposts, and a string of possible further victims. Hughenden is full of secrets, and the fate of Tony Jones is still one of them