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Jackson Stacker death: Parents of music-festival loving young man found in a Byron Bay field with a knife in his chest reveal new theory about his mysterious death
The parents of a young festival-goer who was found dead with a hunting knife in his chest and his scalp separated from his body have revealed a new theory behind his death.
The body of Jackson Stacker, 26, was found under a tree 120 metres from the Sleepy Hollow rest stop, 25 minutes north of Byron Bay, on August 25, 2021 with an 18cm hunting knife plunged in his chest.
Even though his scalp and dreadlocks were over 10 metres away police treated the death as suicide.
But in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night, his grief-stricken parents Sandey MacFarlane and Ian Stacker argue that conclusion doesn't 'make sense' and raise the possibility of something much more sinister.
They believe their son got involved with seedy characters on the drug scene in the idyllic coastal town's underbelly.
'Nothing made sense. I spoke to him the last day he was alive and he was fine,' Ms MacFarlane said.
'It just came across to us that there's, there's other possibilities of what could've happened here,' Ian said.
In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night, grief-stricken parents Sandey MacFarlane and Ian Stacker (pictured) argue a police conclusion about their son's death doesn't 'make sense' and raise the possibility of something much more sinister
There is a haunting theory behind how Jackson Stacker (pictured) - whose body was found badly decomposed under a tree on August 25, 2021 - died
'We think that, perhaps he got involved with, at this doof, someone in the drug trade that had left some stuff in his van.
'You know, Jackson left that doof prematurely and left behind a few people that he transported there.
'Just the way that his van was found. It was totally trashed. You know, like, it was like it had been strip-searched.'
Ian and Sandey believe Jackson's ransacked van suggests evidence of foul play.
'Everything was so violent. The van is not just messy, it was destroyed,' Ms MacFarlane added.
If he was in a panic he wouldn't like a confrontation and I think that he was running.'
The van was found at the Sleepy Hollow rest stop, 120 metres from where Jackson's body was discovered.
Jackson had travelled to the idyllic Byron Bay in NSW from Melbourne, living out of a van and partying with friends.
'Everything was so violent. The van is not just messy, it was destroyed,' Ms MacFarlane added (pictured: Jackson's van)
In a message to Sandey, he said he was mingling with 'beautiful' and 'intelligent' people.
But his parents suspect something changed in the final month of his life and he may have been murdered.
'I think he was feeling used by certain people that were borrowing his van,' Sandey said.
Friends told the program he had taken lsd and marijuana ...
Cousin Ishtar Kenny said she had heard of 'things going on in Byron'.
'I've heard of different things going on in Byron in the last few years where all the young people have been very afraid because they've been involved in something,' she said.
'They didn't realise what it was and then they've been threatened or stuff like that. So I know it can happen in that area as well.'
Jackson Stacker had been travelling in his Toyota Hiace van (pictured) since 2020
Mr Stacker's mum, Sandey MacFarlane insists her son did not take his own life, saying there was no history of suicide or poor mental health in their family
Sandey and Ian believe Jackson may have run away from a confrontation and that is why he ended up in the paddock.
Jackson's phone was never found in the initial investigation, but in a remarkable moment, 60 Minutes revealed its producer stumbled across a phone at the scene, within eyesight of where Jackson's body was found, during their own investigation into the story.
It is not yet known to whom the phone belongs.
Jackson had a Samsung phone, his parents said, and a week after he died it rebooted 200km further south near Grafton.
For the next four days it connected with various cell towers, before returning to the Byron area where it stopped pinging on August 2.
In their investigation, the police found Jackson was suffering mood swings and displayed erratic behaviour.
Jackson also smoked marijuana and took LSD, which had affected the young man emotionally.
Jackson had also been hospitalised in the past, treated for drug fuelled psychosis after bad reactions to mind altering substances, 60 Minutes revealed.
Former homicide detective Gary Jubelin has evaluated the case and believes investigators did a thorough job looking into Jackson's death.
'Having worked homicide as long as I did, it's such a difficult area, there's a lot of emotions attached to it,' he said.
'It's not something that you can look at, uh, clinically and separate emotion. There is emotion involved.
'And looking at the steps that the police have taken during the course of this investigation, I think from a very early stage, they were looking at it as a potential homicide.'
A coroner's findings into the manner and cause of Jackson's death is expected in the coming weeks.
Tragic deaths and disappearances in and around Byron Bay
Theo Hayez
Theo, an 18-year-old Belgian backpacker, disappeared after a night out at the Cheeky Monkeys nightclub in May 2019.
He was not reported missing for five days.
In June 2020, Mr Hayez's cousin Lisa revealed that Google data had tracked him walking through thick bushland on the night of his disappearance, and suggested he could not have done so alone.
The strongest theory for Mr Hayez's disappearance remains that the backpacker fell from cliffs and was washed out to sea.
Théo Hayez went missing from Byron Bay on May 31, 2019 and has not been seen since
Thea Liddle
Ms Liddle, 42, was last seen in the Mooball area, between Byron Bay and Tweed Heads, in October 2019.
The former microbiologist had found herself homeless in Byron Bay and led a transient lifestyle before her death.
Police stumbled upon her remains in July 2020 while searching for Mr Hayez.
Ms Liddle, 42, was last seen in the Mooball area, between Byron Bay and Tweed Heads, in October 2019
Erwan Ferrieux and Hugo Palmer
Erwan Ferrieux and his British friend Hugo Palmer, both 20, were reported missing during their holiday of a lifetime in 2019.
Police feared they had drowned in Port Macquarie after their belongings were found in the sand on Shelly Beach.
In June 2019, two human bones washed up - and forensic testing revealed they are most likely Mr Ferrieux's.
Mr Palmer's femur bone was discovered in the sea by a spear fishermen, with DNA tests revealing that it belonged to him.
Hugo Palmer (left) and Erwan Ferrieux (right) went missing while they were on a gap year in Australia