WA missing family found with parents dead after car crash in outback

Three children were found alive alongside the bodies of their dead parents in the wreckage of the family car, which went missing on Christmas Day leading to a desperate.  

Jake Day, 28, and Cindy Braddock, 25, were last seen leaving Northam and travelling towards Kondinin a few hours east of Perth in Western Australia at around 1am on Sunday.

After a desperate search the deceased couple and their three kids, all under five-years-old, were found sometime after midday on Tuesday. 

Police have found the couple, Jake day, 28, and Cindy Braddock, 25, (pictured) and their three children who have been missing since Christmas Day

The family’s crashed Land Rover Discovery was located about 10km from Kondinin in WA’s Wheatbelt.

Two of the surviving children had got out of the wrecked vehicle while the infant was inside the car when they were discovered by search teams.

All three children are being treated for non-life threatening injuries and are being flown back to Perth. 

Before the tragedy came to light friends and family of the couple and their children sharing posts with photos and information to raise awareness for the missing family.

‘Has anyone seen Jake Day or Cindy Braddock since Christmas Day,’ Cindy’s sister, Helen Braddock pleaded in a Facebook post.

‘[They] haven’t made it home and haven’t made contact with anybody since.

‘Please contact Northam police or me if you have seen them or car.’

The couple had last been seen at around 1am on Christmas Day, travelling in this maroon Land Rover Discovery wagon from Northam to Kondinin

Helen confirmed on Facebook her mother and aunty as well as Day’s mother had searched roads they likely would have taken.

Her aunty, Sharron Jeffrey, said in a Facebook comment that the couple ‘were fine’ when they left.