Mark Jansen was 31 when he was last seen getting into a car with three strangers on Pultney Street in Dandenong at around 5pm on Saturday November 12, 1994.

Pasture skeletal remains discovered after a bushfire at Marysville in the Yarra Valley on March 13, 2014 were later confirmed by DNA testing to belong to Mr Jansen.

No other bodies have been found by police, who are still trying to track down the two men and woman who were inside the car Mr Jansen was seen getting into.

His eldest daughter Lichelle said in a statement Tuesday — exactly three decades after her father’s disappearance — that she would continue to fight for justice.

“Dad, your loss broke something in me that I don’t think will ever heal. I was just a child when you passed away, but the pain of not having you by my side followed me every day. the days since. You were my father – my protector, my hero – and someone took you away in the most brutal way,” she said.

“We now know that you are gone, but what happened to you still haunts us. Finding your body was devastating, but not knowing who did it, or why, is unbearable. Whoever took you is still there, and he should do it.” This is not the case. You didn’t deserve this.

“I’m pleading with anyone who knows anything to come forward. No information is too small – it could be the key to getting justice for my father. Imagine if this was your family, your father, your pain. If he please, don’t do it. “I’m not staying silent.

“Dad, I hope you know how much you were loved, and still are. I will never stop fighting for you – for the truth, for justice, and for the peace you deserve. The one who you did this must be held accountable. I promise.

Mr Jansen was co-owner of a fresh fish store at the Fruit City Complex in Dandenong, in Melbourne’s south-east, at the time of his disappearance.

He was last seen getting into a yellow 1981-1985 Holden Gemini sedan in a parking lot at the rear of the complex, with the three unidentified individuals inside the car.

The vehicle had an unknown registration and was reported to be in poor condition with missing hubcaps.

Mr Jansen’s business partner then went to the car park to give him money. He was never seen again despite indications that he was potentially traveling to Adelaide for the Grand Prix.

It was only when an excavator was deployed to rehabilitate bushland in a remote area of ​​the Big River State Forest on Morris Road in Marysville after a fire that Mr Jansen’s skeletal remains were discovered, 20 years later his disappearance.

Police believe he was the victim of foul play, but the exact circumstances of his disappearance remain a mystery.

A few months before his disappearance, Mr Jansen had been declared bankrupt and had money for several people.

Police also believe Mr Jansen may have had “minor involvement in addictive drug trafficking before his disappearance”.

He lived in a caravan in Dandenong before his disappearance and shared two daughters with his ex-wife.

“There will certainly be people who know what happened to Mark and who is responsible, and we are calling on those people to come forward and speak to the police,” said Detective Inspector Dave Dunstan, of the squad. missing people.

“It’s been thirty years, but it’s absolutely not too late to do the right thing. Any new information provided to police will be fully investigated. Mark’s family deserves answers.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.