Rodney Bradbridge was 23 when he disappeared during a camping trip near Mullumbimby. Image NSW Police. Rodney Bradbridge travelled from Sydney to visit family in Byron Bay in 1997. A few days later his mother dropped him ‘out the back’ of Mullumbimby to go camping, and he was never seen again. Rodney’s brother Craig and his father Peter recently attended a pop-up DNA sample collection day at Coffs Harbour. A familial DNA collection pilot program, which aims to assist detectives with ongoing historic missing persons investigations, includes the establishment of two pop-up centres – one at Coffs Harbour and one at Port Macquarie. The aim is to capture samples and other data required for upload to the National Missing Persons Victim System database.