‘Gone to Brazil’: The chilling note Catherine was left before her daughter disappeared with a doomsday cult

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When Catherine McDougall visited her daughter for the last time, she knew something was wrong.

In 2007, Chantelle McDougall, 27, and her six-year-old daughter Leela were living in an isolated farmhouse in Nannup, a three-hour drive south of Perth, with self-styled spiritual leader Simon Kadwell.

During her visit, Catherine sensed the couple were planning something because a passport arrived in the mail for Leela, although Chantelle hadn’t mentioned travel plans.

“On the day I left, I burst into tears,” Catherine, 72, tells Woman’s Day.

“In my gut, I knew something was going on.”

Weeks later, her suspicion was confirmed when Chantelle and Leela, along with 45-year-old Kadwell, who ran an online sect, and their friend, Tony Popic, 40, disappeared.

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