Oracle computer salesman Gary Tweddle’s anxious misadventure from its sales ultimatum conference in the Blue Mountains

AUTHOR’S NOTICE TO READERS: This long article has since 1st June 2025, been converted into a ‘web-book’ and re-entitled ‘Missing Gary Tweddle‘ having multiple 29 web-pages, or ‘PARTS’ of this book on this same website. Each of the 29 parts of the book are interconnected in sequence as per the Table of Contents (PART 11), with hyperlinks at the bottom […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 3 – TITLE PAGE

  First published by Nature Trail in May 2025. 5 Kundibar Street, Katoomba, NSW 2780. Australia. >https://naturetrail.com.au/ All concepts, text, images, design, publishing, web-book, non-printing, non-binding, the lot – by Steven John Ridd. The paper on this book is not by any contrived Forest Stewardship Council standards. No paper used. No tree has been felled in our publishing process. >Back […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 8 – DISCLAIMER

  The contents and information presented in this web-book are offered as a general information source only.  Commentary is added as the opinion of the author. The genre of this book is a form of ‘creative non-fiction’ that sources reported information, applies ground-truthing, research and causal inference analysis to try to better comprehend this true story. While the Nature Trail […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 9 – DEDICATION

  We dedicate this book to all visitors to the Blue Mountains.  May they enjoy their trip here, be careful and stay safe. We also dedicate this book to those lost and missing in the Blue Mountains. This book is particularly dedicated to the 200-odd unsung rescue service paid workers of the NSW Government (Police Rescue, Police Officers, Air Ambulance […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 10 – ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  The idea for writing this web-book evolved from writing an article for Nature Trail’s community blog ‘Mountains Drums’ under the category of ‘Deaths in the Mountains’. The particularly bizarre circumstances and tragic outcome of this true story of the Blue Mountains captured the intrigue of many locals and the media at the time back in 2013.  So there was […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 11 – TABLE OF CONTENTS

Front Cover Back Page Blurb Title Page Copyright Epigraph Frontispiece Foreword Disclaimer Dedication Acknowledgements Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Gary Tweddle Chapter  1:  A limited backstory Chapter  2:  Oracle’s 2013 sales conference Chapter  3:  Gary’s state of mind? Chapter  4:  Blue Mountains massive search Chapter  5:  Critique about the search Chapter  6:  Our own ‘ground-truthing’ Chapter  7:  Discovery later by […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 12 – PREFACE

  This is the wild environment associated with this topic we’re talking about here: View of Sublime Point Leura toward the Jamison Valley below.  [SOURCE:  ^https://www.truebluemountains.com.au/] It was in the days immediately after Gary Tweddle, apparently some young male corporate IT sales executive, had been last seen at 12:15 am (just after midnight) on Wednesday 17th July 2013 as reported […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 13 – INTRODUCTION: GARY TWEDDLE

  2. Introduction Mr Gary Tweddle’s unexplained disappearance in the winter of 2013 sparked the largest search for a missing person in Blue Mountains history…well at least to date at the time. Hereon, this author through this article, since web-book, chooses to refer to Mr Gary Lloyd Tweddle, more familiarly just be his first name ‘Gary’.  Few these days ever use […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 17 – CHAPTER 4: BLUE MOUNTAINS MASSIVE SEARCH

  The next morning daylight of Wednesday 17th July 2013, an immediate and extensive search was officially sprung into operation.   This was ultimately co-ordinated by local Blue Mountains Police Rescue (nearby Katoomba-based) with the assistance of volunteers from the NSW State Emergency Service, Rural Fire service volunteers and experienced local bushwalking clubs’ members familiar with the area. NSW Police Senior […]

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Missing Gary Tweddle Book Part 25 – CHAPTER 12: SYDNEY: WORLD’S COCAINE CAPITAL?

  (CONTENT TBA)   Australia’s Cocaine Crisis:  According to our wastewater, 5,675kg of cocaine was consumed in 2020, with much of the trafficked narcotics is coming in through our sea ports. Australia’s cocaine crisis June 16, 2021 NewsDNA https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/australias-cocaine-crisis/video/ccb38d4dda94c2259935352de71e405b * Australia the highest per capita cocaine user in the world Natalie Brown June 20, 2021 https://www.news.com.au/national/australia-the-highest-per-capita-cocaine-user-in-the-world/news-story/c91869d4e2b2adeef266917d82f705e0   * Cocaine is […]

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