Shyanne-Lee Tatnell: Chris Jordan from Scottsdale charged with murdering the Tasmanian teenager

A farmer accused of killing lacking Tasmanian teenager Shyanne-Lee Tattnell allegedly murdered her at his property the night time she vanished earlier than dumping her physique in bushland.

Scottsdale farmer Chris Jordan, 36, was charged over the 14-year-old’s loss of life on Thursday, virtually three months after she mysteriously vanished from Launceston. 

{The teenager} left a youth residence about 8.30pm on April 30 to go to a pal, however by no means returned. 

On Wednesday, human stays believed to be Ms Tatnell’s had been situated some 50km away, close to Nabowla within the state’s northeast. 

Jordan wore a blue parka as he fronted Launceston Magistrates Courtroom on Friday, after spending the night time in custody. 

No pleas had been entered and the case was adjourned. He was remanded in custody to reappear by way of video hyperlink on 16 August.

Shyanne-Lee was final seen strolling a road in japanese Launceston when haunting CCTV footage caught her disappearing into the black of night time on a lonely highway.

In response to court docket paperwork, police will allege Jordan got here throughout Shyanne-Lee someday thereafter and took {the teenager} again to his home in Scottsdale, a 64.5km drive northeast. 

The journey between Launceston is alongside a poorly lit nation highway which largely passes by means of rural land and forest. 

Later that night time, Jordan allegedly killed Shyanne-Lee at his residence earlier than later dumping her physique 24km away alongside a distant bushland observe in Nabowla. 

Police spent months looking for Shyanne-Lee till a tip-off from the general public final week led them search alongside Bridport Again Highway, the place the human stays -believed to be hers – had been found on Wednesday. 

The discover triggered an enormous air and floor search, with investigators sealing off Jordan’s rural property in Scottsdale. 

Jordan was arrested in Launceston on Thursday afternoon – simply hours after police started scouring his property with a cadaver canine.

Information of Jordan’s arrest has rocked the small tight-knit neighborhood, which is residence to only over 2300 residents. 

Locals can not imagine their neighbour may very well be on the centre of such critical allegations.  

In February 2021, Jordan donated his hair to charity organisation Wigs for Youngsters, which helps youngsters with most cancers. 

Pictures posted on-line by a neighborhood hairdresser present Jordan proudly holding his locks as he sat within the salon with a newly shaved head. 

A neighbour advised Day by day Mail Australia he was shocked by the ‘terrible’ information as his encounters with Jordan had at all times been nice.

‘Knocked my bum flat once I heard,’ he stated. ‘I obtained on with him, by no means had an issue with him.’

The person stated Jordan has a younger son that he shares together with his ex-wife. He stated after the couple broke up, Jordan had had a number of relationships.

Jordan has had a ‘fairly tough life’, the neighbour stated, together with being electrocuted 20 years in the past whereas engaged on a farm.

‘I feel that’s when his issues began. All of it went downhill from there,’ the person stated.

‘They [him and his wife] had been having issues with claiming insurance coverage and he was out of labor for a very long time. Then he was in a automotive accident.’

In recent times, Jordan had an agricultural job working with sheep. He stated the pair had been on pleasant phrases and he would typically go to Jordan at his sprawling property, which was guarded by three canine. 

The person stated the final time he noticed Jordan was on Wednesday, when law enforcement officials had been on the property.  

‘He [Jordan] was there together with his dad and mom. The officers advised him he needed to go away the property for 4 days. They wouldn’t let him feed the horses,’ the person stated. 

‘Him and his mum wished to go within the shed to get hay, however the officers stated they couldn’t. They managed to speak them (the officers) round.’

Police may very well be seen on Thursday bagging proof gathered from the expansive property – together with a big axe. 

Shyanne-Lee’s mom reacts to physique discover 

Moments earlier than police introduced an arrest had been made, Shyanne-Lee’s mom Bobbi-Lee Ketchell uploaded a photograph of her daughter on social media – smiling in her faculty uniform with a medal round her neck.

The caption learn: ‘My child lady I really like you a lot.’ 

Her grandmother wrote a submit after the arrest, saying that her ‘mom’s coronary heart’s ripped out’.

‘Bobbi-Lee must be organising Shyanne’s fifteenth birthday not her funeral, however sit and hear whereas her sons [age] 16, 10 and 4 have their uncle inform them as greatest he can how their sister won’t ever be residence,’ she wrote. 

Northern Tasmanian Police Commander Kate Chambers wouldn’t affirm the situation of the stays throughout a press convention on Thursday afternoon.

‘I am not going to speak in regards to the situation of the stays,’ she stated.

‘Shyanne-Lee’s household have to be having a really traumatic time in the meanwhile and I simply need to lengthen my condolences to them.’

Commander Chambers wouldn’t say whether or not the 36-year-old had been an individual of curiosity all through the investigation, or whether or not he was identified to police.

The commander was additionally requested about earlier reviews claiming Shyanne-Lee feared she was being adopted every week earlier than she disappeared.

‘Each single piece of data that was both supplied to us or created by us when it comes to by means of investigative methods has been investigated,’ she stated.

Earlier on Thursday, Day by day Mail Australia witnessed detectives poring over the 36-year-old’s property – inspecting a transport container dumped on the property and draining a dam.

Two police divers had been seen inspecting the contents of a dam on the property, with work begun to pump water from a creek on the property.  

Logged timber, rusty motor autos, tin sheds, and outdated transport containers had been littered throughout the block of land, about 3km out of city, which has been declared against the law scene. 

Cows grazed in a entrance paddock subsequent as officers searched the grounds with two canine – one for cadavers, one other for medication. 

One canine was seen excitedly working by means of a paddock as officers took it all the way down to a stream that runs alongside the perimeter of the property.

Forensic tents had been erected over a ute parked close to the home whereas officers unloaded tools from their close by automobiles. 

The grim breakthrough comes simply days after it appeared all leads had dried up for detectives looking for {the teenager}.

Police spent weeks making an attempt to trace down all of the automobiles seen driving previous Shyanne-Lee in CCTV footage from Launceston’s Henry Avenue Bridge, within the hunt for clues.

However on June 30, police admitted they’d lastly managed to search out the driving force of the final automotive, a silver Honda Accord, with out it resulting in any new developments.

This week although police had been tipped off with very important new data that triggered the most important floor search in north Tasmanian historical past.

‘It is because of the investigation, the inquiries we have made and data we have obtained from the general public,’ Detective Inspector Andrew Hanson revealed.

‘We’re performing on that data in that particular space.’

On Wednesday afternoon, a search group of 160 law enforcement officials, SES volunteers and a cadaver canine discovered the human stays.

Shyanne-Lee – who would have been 15 on August 8 – vanished after she left the house of her mom Bobbi-Lee Ketchell in Burnie, north-west Tasmania, after a collection of rows.

She moved in together with her grandmother who lived close by however later left there to remain at a youth centre in Launceston and had been there for 2 weeks earlier than she vanished.

She was final seen on the Henry St Bridge over the North Esk River the place the search has been targeted earlier than this week’s tip off noticed it swap 50km east to Nabowla.

Shyanne-Lee’s mom Bobbi-Lee Ketchell greeted the information of the grim discovery of the human stays with a collection of damaged hearts in a submit on Fb.

It got here simply 48 hours after she had lashed out at on-line trolls attacking her for not doing sufficient to search out her lacking daughter.

‘Folks nowadays are so merciless and fast to guage harmless human beings!’ she posted on Tuesday. ‘Like myself proper now…’

She stated critics had accused her of giving up on her daughter and never caring sufficient. 

‘Stuff all you judgemental beings!’ she hit again. ‘Dwell in the future in my footwear then fortunately decide – till then, shut your mouth.

‘You could have one thing to say about me and my state of affairs say to my face!’

She stated she nonetheless had hope of discovering her daughter alive and backed the police investigation.

‘Simply because my daughter  is not headline information or on the media doesn’t imply she is forgotten about or now we have gave up on her.

‘[Detectives] are persevering with to do all they will and extra that you just the general public don’t have to know, or my household and I have to share! 

‘Shyanne’s case continues to be a precedence 24/7. We are going to discover my child lady. No-one can really feel my ache and perceive how a lot I miss my daughter…each day is a battle.

‘However I’m nonetheless a combating, grieving mom that’s doing all I can for all my youngsters, being robust on this state of affairs is difficult however I’ll by no means surrender!’