THE search for a hitchhiker who went missing more than three decades ago has led homicide detectives to an outback Queensland slaughterhouse.
Tony Jones, who was 20 when he disappeared, last made contact with his Perth-based family on November 3, 1982, to say he planned to hitchhike to Mount Isa from Townsville.
He was reported missing about a week later and has not been seen since.
In what may be a major breakthrough in the case, police on Thursday said they have identified two "significant places of interest" - the slaughterhouse and a hotel in Hughenden, inland from Townsville.
Several people of interest have also been identified but no arrests have been made.
Lead investigator, Townsville Detective Acting Superintendent Cheryl Scanlon, said no forensic excavation work had taken place at the slaughterhouse just outside of the small town, in Queensland's north.
She wouldn't say why the abattoir was a place of interest or if police believed Mr Jones had been killed there.
Over the past few weeks three people have also come forward to say they had seen Mr Jones at the Grand Hotel in Hughenden in November 1982.
The hotel closed about a decade ago.
"It's the biggest piece of collective information certainly in the last decade in this investigation," Det Sup Scanlon said.
"I'm confident as we've ever been that we believe that Tony Jones has been the victim of a homicide.
"Our hope is that somewhere down the track we will have some answers for the family."
Police last month said they now believe Mr Jones was killed in Hughenden.
Previous investigations had focused on Townsville and a campsite at the Cloncurry River.
The high-profile case sparked national missing persons week, which last year marked its 25th year.
A coronial inquest in 2002 could only conclude Mr Jones's death was "at the hand of a person or persons unknown" and police investigations should continue.
At the request of the Jones family in 2010, then state Attorney-General Cameron Dick agreed to reopen the inquest but no date has been set for the hearing.
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