Jake Jefferson Peters facing charges as cops release CCTV footage of his missing girlfriend Angie Lee Fuller

It’s 6.40pm on a Tuesday night in Alice Springs.

Angie Fuller sits in the driver’s seat of her small red Toyota Corolla, parked beside a petrol bowser at the Shell service station on the edge of town.

The young mother is on her iPhone, which is pressed to her ear, when a man enters the frame.

Jake Jefferson Peters, her new boyfriend, is barefoot. He carries a plastic bag and crosses the concrete with light steps before sliding into the passenger seat.

The clear, full-colour footage is silent and unremarkable.

CCTV shows Mr Peters fastening his seatbelt. Ms Fuller turns the key in the ignition. She wedges the phone between her left shoulder and cheek, places both hands on the steering wheel, and pulls away.

Then the Corolla exits the frame.

For police, this four minute clip — captured on January 9, 2023 — is the last independent sighting of Ms Fuller.

In the hours that followed, the 30-year-old vanished, without a trace, into the arid desert outside of Alice Springs.

Late on the night of January 11, more than 48 hours after that service-station stop, Mr Peters approached the front counter of the Alice Springs Police Station and reported her missing.

By then, the terrain had already begun erasing what little evidence may have existed.

In an extraordinary and carefully considered move, the Northern Territory Police Force has now released the CCTV footage to The Nightly, urging anyone who may have seen Ms Fuller’s red Toyota Corolla or its occupants in the hours that followed to contact investigators.

NT Police have also shared footage of the couple driving into the Alice Springs McDonalds carpark at 6.31pm, before they stopped for fuel.

Police rarely release such material in an active homicide investigation but detectives believe someone with critical information has chosen not to speak.

The footage marks the beginning of a crucial window of time: the 48 hours during which Thai-born Ms Fuller vanished.

An altercation on the Tanami

Ms Fuller’s next – and final – reported sighting was in the early hours of January 10 when her Corolla was involved in an “altercation” on a remote stretch of road, about 15 kilometres west of the Stuart Highway intersection.

Police say their information indicates Ms Fuller was likely driving, with Mr Peters in the front passenger seat, when her Corolla came into contact with another vehicle on Tanami Road.

The occupants of that other vehicle — members of the McCormack family — later told ABC’s 7.30 program they were driving home to their remote Hamilton Downs outstation after a routine trip into Alice Springs when a vehicle approached them from behind at speed with its headlights on high beam.

“It seemed like the car was following us,” Kevin McCormack said.

“Then it started to come up beside [us], and I saw a person put half their body out through the window — he had a cloth, or a t-shirt, wrapped around his face.”

The McCormacks allege the person struck their rear windscreen with an object, shattering the glass.

“I thought it was gunfire,” Mr McCormack said.

Fearing for their lives, the family says they attempted to escape.

In doing so, they “bumped” the other vehicle, causing Ms Fuller’s Corolla to zigzag, leave the roadway and become bogged.

One of the McCormacks’ relatives called Triple Zero as they raced back to the outstation and described what they believed was a dangerous road-rage incident.

After reaching safety, the family returned to the site with a hunting rifle for protection, concerned someone might be injured.

But when they arrived, the Corolla was empty and its occupants were gone.

Police attended the scene after daybreak on January 10. Officers observed footprints but no clear trail.

NT Police have confirmed the McCormacks are not suspects, were not previously known to Ms Fuller or Peters, and are not under investigation.

The unanswered call

A video call to Ms Fuller’s mobile phone on the night she disappeared — allegedly answered by Mr Peters — has also become evidence.

The Nightly previously revealed one of Ms Fuller’s friends attempted to call her a few hours after her last independent sighting.

“I tried calling her and Jake answered the phone,” the man said.

“It was a video call — on Snapchat. It was that night, the night she went missing.”

The Alice Springs man, who also knew Mr Peters, provided statements to homicide detectives. He said Mr Peters was at home when he answered Ms Fuller’s new phone.

He did not see or hear Ms Fuller during the brief exchange and never heard from her again.

Competing versions

In the days after Ms Fuller disappeared, Mr Peters gave various accounts of what had happened.

He told police and others that multiple carloads of armed gangsters chased the couple, ran them off the road and pursued them into the desert while firing at them.

He claimed the couple fled barefoot into the scrub and Ms Fuller became lost.

Police reject that an organised crime gang was involved.

Detectives say they have corroborated an alternative scenario: that Ms Fuller was driving the Corolla, with Mr Peters beside her, when it came into contact with the McCormacks’ vehicle, spun off the road and became bogged.

Police believe that after the Corolla hit a tree and became stuck, its occupants ran off. But what happened after that remains a mystery.

The search

In the weeks that followed, police scoured more than 400 square kilometres of difficult terrain — including scrubland, remote tracks and an abandoned abattoir — searching for any trace of the “friendly” young woman who had “no conflicts with anyone”.

They have since searched other areas too.

Ms Fuller, her mobile phone, her car keys, the jewellery she was wearing — and the answers — remain elusive.

After 15 days, having found no trace of her, the search-and-rescue operation was suspended and homicide detectives took over.

Assistant Commissioner Michael White has previously confirmed Mr Peters is a person of interest. No one has been charged.

The aftermath

In the days after Ms Fuller vanished, Mr Peters recorded and shared multiple videos on social media, detailing his version of events and filming confrontations with police at the search site.

In those recordings, Mr Peters said he tried to keep sight of his girlfriend while fleeing into the bush to evade people he claimed were chasing them.

On January 13, two days after Ms Fuller was reported missing, Loraine Baumgarten and three other women — all friends of Ms Fuller — visited Mr Peters at his home.

They covertly recorded the conversation, in which Mr Peters admitted he had returned to the crash site, tried to access Ms Fuller’s mobile phone and watched police from afar before eventually reporting her missing.

In the recording, Mr Peters denied any involvement.

“You know, I’m about to go to jail for something I f---ing didn’t do,” he said.

“You know, I love that woman … I wanted to start a life with her.”

In the days following Ms Fuller’s disappearance, Mr Peters travelled to south-east Queensland.

In September 2025, Mr Peters was arrested over an alleged armed robbery in Toowoomba. He is in custody ahead of his next court appearance on January 19.

A landscape that swallows answers

The Northern Territory has a long and grim association with unsolved disappearances — vehicles found abandoned, people lost between towns, questions that harden into silence.

The landscape is vast and unforgiving. Heat, desert winds, feral animals and shifting ground strip evidence away. A person can disappear between towns and never be seen again.

Police now accept Ms Fuller may not be where they first searched.

Acting Commander Drew Slape told the ABC last week investigators were widening their focus.

“It’s highly unlikely that Angie Fuller is located within our initial search area,” he said.

“However, given the vastness of the Northern Territory, she could be at any other location.

“What I’d like to see is some information that gives us new search areas … and hopefully find either evidence or the remains of Angie Fuller.”

Anyone with information is urged to contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 quoting #10228143.