Where are Jayo, Scott and Clifford?

National Missing Persons Week happens during the first week of August each year.
During this week, Federal and state Police coordinate a campaign across policing services.
The campaign aims to raise awareness of issues that relate to missing persons, profile long-term missing persons, reduce the number, and the impact, of missing persons in Australia.
As part of 2025 Missing Persons Week, we raise a spotlight to three men, all missing from the region.
Jeremiah ‘Jayo’ Rivers was a talented AFL player, who moved form the Northern Territory to Balranald, to play with the Balranald Roos.
After making friends in town, Jayo, a fellow NT-based footy mate, a local Balranald man and four men from Victoria left Balranald on a hunting trip.
It was Saturday, October 16, 2021, so Covid-19 border restrictions were in place, which the hunting party say was why their stories became confused.
In two vehicles, the group of seven headed to Wilcannia, where one man sought treatment at the hospital in the early hours of October 17.
Jayo was recorded in CCTV in White Cliffs just before 11am the same morning, limping, in bare feet.
It is estimated the group quietly entered Queensland through the isolated Wompah Gate around 4am on October 18, after cutting the lock on the chained border.
The group say they set up camp at Wippo Creek, and the last photograph of Jayo was taken around 8.30am that day.
According to the evidence given by his travelling companions at his 2023 coronial inquest, Jayo walked away from the camp, either chasing a pig, or to look for somewhere to take a swim.
It was Monday.
Wippo Creek is about 40 kilometres from the tiny out back town of Noccundra – population 16.
On Monday evening two of the men drove to Noccundra and purchased meals for the group, but did not report Jayo as missing.
On Tuesday morning, October 19, the two men returned to Noccundra to fuel their vehicle and it was then that they first mentioned Jayo as missing, to local police.
The pair did not share that they were part of a larger group, and the second vehicle departed separately.
Once the alarm was raised, Police launched an extensive land, air, and water search from for eight days, using vehicles, planes, and even a gyrocopter.
As well as the official efforts, Jayo’s family arrived from Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and searched the harsh terrain for months.
In May 2024, Queensland Police restarted a 16-day search north west of Noccundra, based on new but undisclosed information.
Despite all these searches, no trace of Jayo, has ever been found.
In October 2024, Coroner Donald MacKenzie ruled that Jayo was likely dead and probably met with foul play, but his heartbroken family still has no answers.
Victorian man Scott Neven was on a pig hunting trip in October 2002, when he was last seen 40 kilometres from Ivanhoe.
Broken Hill police say the 31-year-old Victorian was in a car with two friends when a fight erupted.
The witnesses told police that Scott got out of the vehicle, crawled under a fence and ran off into the paddock.
He has not been seen since Friday 11, October 2002.
An inquest held in July 2006 by the Deputy State Coroner found that Mr Neven died on or about 12 October 2002.
As no trace of Mr Neven has been found since, the Coroner could not make any findings over the precise place, date, manner or cause of death. The Coroner did rule that Mr Neven met with foul play.
In 2025, the NSW Government offered $100,000 reward for information into the disappearance of Scott Neven, and for information leading to the arrest of Mr Neven's killer.
On Tuesday January 2, 2001, Clifford Parker, left "Hazelwood Station" located on the Sturt Highway near Balranald.
Clifford took with him a small grey and blue backpack and a swag marked "Hazelwood" on it.
It is believed Clifford took his dogs with him, but neither Clifford nor his dogs have been seen since this date.

If you have any information into the disappearance of Jeremiah Rivers, Scott Neven or Clifford Parker please contact Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.
The Riverine Grazier would also like to hear from anyone who knew any of these men, and is open to anonymous contact.
Email krista@thegrazier.com.au.