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Every day over 28 people are reported missing to NSW Police* which amounts to over 8,000 persons per year. T
here are currently over 500 long-term missing persons for this state.

Indicates missing child under the age of 18

MISSING PERSONS
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CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISAPPEARANCE

DOB: 06/05/1959

A 20 year old female last seen leaving Kempsey with her backpacking partner Allan Fox to hitchhike to Upper Burringbar near Byron Bay on 12 January 1979. Police believe the couple died in suspicious circumstances.

A 2005 Coronial Inquest into the disappearance of Anneke resulted in an open finding as to the date, time and cause of death.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW POLICE - 2005 

DOB: 04/05/1978

A 5 year old girl who was abducted from her bedroom at her home in Narooma on 16 February 1984. Her 8 year old brother was in the bedroom at the time of her disappearance.

Click on the link to read information on the 2003 Coronial Inquest into the disappearance of Renee.
Lazaros ANASTASSIADIS DOB: 1967

A 30 year old male last seen at 7 pm on February 22 1998. His vehicle was found locked and parked on Old South Head Road, Watsons Bay. Grave fears are held for his safety and welfare.
Ronald ANDERSON DOB: 1933
A 73 year old Melbourne male last seen rowing ashore in a dinghy from his yacht at Shoal Bay in the NSW Hunter region on the 14 (20?) July 2007.
Debbie Marie ASHBY DOB: 1971
A 16 year old Leumeah girl who left home on 11 October 1987. A Coronial Inquest was held into the disappearance and death of Debbie Ashby in 2007.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW POLICE - DECEMBER 2007 
Steven ATKINSON DOB: 1973
A 34 year old male last seen by a taxi driver who took him from Orange to the Nangar National Park near Eugowra on Friday 24 August 2007.
DOB: 1960

A 20 year old female nurse who vanished along with her friend Gillian Jamieson (also a 20 year old nurse) from the Tollgate Hotel Parramatta after speaking to a man on July 12 1980. The man who was described as having a moustache and wearing a black cowbay hat is suspected to be Ivan Milat.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW POLICE - NOVEMBER 2005

Elizabeth Glennette BARLOW
(aka Glennette BARLOW or Elizabeth MCMAHON)

DOB: 1956
A 39 year old Aboriginal woman originally from Queensland who was last seen in Sydney 1995. She was living in Redfern at the time of her disappearance and has not contacted her family since this time.
 

John Fredrick BENNETT

DOB: 1940

A 24 year old man who was last seen on 6 April 1964 whilst in service of the Australian Navy.

FURTHER INFORMATION REQUESTED ON THIS LISTING

Ashley BINDON DOB: 1980
A 25 year old male last seen at lunchtime at Rose Bay on 26 February 2005. The night before his disappearance he was with a group of unknown young people. Ashley was a talented film, stage and TV actor and had made TV guest appearances in Murder Call and Police Rescue.

Barbara Carol BROWN

DOB: 30/04/1955
A 23 year old female immigrant from the USA who was last seen in Beecroft on 17 May 1978.

FURTHER INFORMATION REQUESTED ON THIS LISTING

DOB: 02/05/1940
A 48 year old Barrack Heights woman who left her home with the intention of going on a walk and never returned on 7 August 1988.
Qing Yue CHEN DOB: 1960
A 40 year old Asian man last seen at Dulwich Hill on 24 October 2000. On the 27 October his white Toyota Corona - Registration no. OQK-602 was located at the Star City Casino car park.

Narelle Mary COX
DOB: 19/03/1956
A 21 year old woman who was last seen at Grafton on 20 July 1977. She is believed to have been a backpacker at the time of her disappearance.
Brendan CRINIS DOB: 1983
A 19 year old man who was last seen in Tarrawanna after leaving his house in the Woollongong area on 9 September 2002. Numerous reported sightings have been made of Brendan since, resulting in the 2008 inquest into his disappearance to be suspended. Click on link to read more.

DOB: 23/08/1972

A 21 year old Melbourne man who left his family home in 1992 to work his way around Australia. He made a phone call to his family on the 20 April 1994 from Armidale NSW but has not been seen or heard from since.

Please click on the link to view Stacy's comprehensive listing.

June Shirley DOYLE DOB: 1936
A 50 year old woman who was last seen leaving her home in Waitara on the evening of Friday 3 January 1986.
Ian Charles DRAPER DOB: 1964
A 37 year old man last seen leaving his workplace, the Mt Pritchard Community Club in a white Ford Falcon on 3 August 2001.
DOB: 20/02/2004

A 19 month old female baby who was last seen by her parents when she was put to bed at 2am on Thursday 10 November 2005. At around 8am the next morning her abduction was discovered. Rahma has 4 sisters and 3 brothers who were in the family home at the time of her abduction.

Click here to read Rahma's listing on Wikipedia.

NO REWARD OFFERED BY NSW GOVERNMENT OR POLICE
 
$20,000 REWARD OFFERED BY NEW IDEA MAGAZINE - MAY 2007
Phillipe FORTIN DOB: 1979
A 23 year old man who was last seen in Liverpool by his family on the 21 August 2002.
Alan Martin FOX

DOB: 17/09/1957

A 21 year old male last seen leaving Kempsey with his backpacking partner Anneke Adriaansen to hitchhike to Upper Burringbar near Byron Bay on 12 January 1979. Police believe the couple died in suspicious circumstances.

A 2005 Coronial Inquest into the disappearance of Alan resulted in an open finding as to the date, time and cause of death.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW POLICE - 2005 

Patrick GALLATY DOB: 1957
A 44 year old man from the Minto area who was last seen at Campbelltown Hospital at 2 pm on 24 August 2001.


Jill Leslie GAMBLIN

DOB: 04/11/1949
A 30 year old Bellevue Hill woman originally from England, who was last leaving the old Paris Theatre on the corner of Wentworth and Liverpool at 10.15pm on 2 December 1979 after seeing the show 'The Boy's Own Macbeth". A Coronial inquest in November 2007 concluded that no suspects were found in her disappearance and death.

Please click on the link to read more about the disappearance of Jill Gambin.
Saverio GANINO DOB: 1961
A 39 year old man who was last seen by his wife when he dropped her at a bus stop at Unanderra on the Princes Highway on 22 March 2000. His grey Mitsubishi was later located that evening outside gates at Mount Kembla.
Habtom GHILAGABER DOB: 25/01/1965
A 30 year old African student man of Middle Eastern appearance who lived in Kensington NSW was last seen at the University of NSW on 20 September 1995.
Asif HADI DOB: 01/12/1982
A 22 year old male student from Bangladesh studying at the University of NSW, who has not been seen by his flatmates since 10 February 2004. He was known to have withdrawn money the same day in the Armidale area after catching a train there.

Derrick Raymond HART
DOB: 06/05/1924
A 62 year old man who was last seen leaving his residence to attend Wollongong Local Court at 10.15am on 2 January 1987. He never arrived at court.
Rose Rain HOWELL DOB: 20/04/1984
A 17 year old female of Aboriginal appearance who was last seen in Bellingen on 11 April 2003. Reports indicate she may have been hitchkiking on the Pacific Highway near Coffs Harbour.
Leonie Astra HUTCHINSON DOB: 2000
A 18 month old female toddler from Scone who was last seen by a doctor in October 2001 for an immunisation shot. Locals reported seeing Leonie with her mother over the following few months but police did not discover that Leonie was missing until January 2004. The disappearance is shortly set to proceed before the NSW Coroner.
DOB: 1960
A 20 year old female nurse who vanished along with her friend Deborah Balkan (also a 20 year old nurse) from the Tollgate Hotel Parramatta after speaking to a man on July 12 1980. The man who was described as having a moustache and wearing a black cowbay hat is suspected to be Ivan Milat.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW POLICE - NOVEMBER 2005

DOB: 10/12/1978
A 10 year old girl who was abducted whilst playing with a group of friends in the playground attached to the unit complex of 454 Illawarra Road Marrickville on 22 December 1988.

NO REWARD OFFERED BY NSW GOVERNMENT OR POLICE

DOB: 25/03/1977
A 9 year old Bondi girl who was abducted after she returned home from school at 4.15pm on 19 August 1986. A number of sightings of Samantha were made between 4.30pm and 6.45 pm in Bondi Road in the area bounded between Imperial Avenue and Wellington Street.

Michael Anthony Guider a convicted pedophile was later charged with Samantha's murder but her body has not been located.

NO REWARD OFFERED BY NSW GOVERNMENT OR POLICE

DOB: 1973
A 32 year old man last seen at the City Crown Hotel, Surry Hills on 21 July 2005. At the time of his disappearance Simon had his silver Gary Fisher bike with him.

A coronial inquest held in July 2008 failed to determine whether Simon was alive or deceased.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW STATE GOVERNMENT - MARCH 2009 


Gordana KOTEVSKI

DOB: 29/12/1977
A 16 year old girl of Mediterranean appearance who is believed to have been abducted outside her aunt's house at Charlestown at about 8.45 p.m. on 24 November 1994. Later that evening relatives found a torn shopping bag that she had been carrying and her wallet outside the house. Witnesses have revealed that the vehicle was a white Hi-Lux four-wheel drive but of unknown registration. The driver was not seen.

A REWARD OF UP TO $100 000 MAY BE PAYABLE FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO AN ARREST IN RELATION TO GORDANA'S DISAPPEARANCE.

Tegan LANE

DOB: 12/09/1996
A 2 day old baby girl who vanished after leaving Auburn hospital with her mother Keli Lane on the 14 September 1996. Tegan's birth was not registered and her mother has been unable to provide a satisfactory answer as to the child's whereabouts.

Richard Michael LEAPE

DOB: 1956
A 37 year old man who left his Bondi unit leaving most of his possessions behind, and last made contact with his family in April 1993.

Matthew 'Matt' LEVESON

DOB: 1986
A 20 year old man who was last seen in Cronulla on 23 September 2007. Several days later his green 1999 Toyota Corolla Seca hatchback was found parked outside public toilets at Waratah Park Reserve in nearby Sutherland.

In August 2008, Michael Atkins was charged with Matthew's murder and information is being sought on the location of Matthew's body.

Ariel LIVESEY
DOB: 1973
A 31 year old woman who was last seen in Katoomba on 24 October 2004.
FURTHER INFORMATION REQUESTED ON THIS LISTING
DOB: 12/10/1914
A 58 year old woman who walked out of the Edith Cavill Nursing Home at Burwood where she was a patient in December 1972. She has not been sighted since.
DOB: 12/08/1954
A 32 year old Campaspie woman who was last seen leaving her residence buy cigarettes at the Belfield Hotel at 10.30am on 1st January (New Years Day) 1987. Bernadette has a medical condition which requires ongoing medication.

 DOB: 13/09/1933
A 43 year old Griffith man, Liberal candidate and anti-drugs campaigner who vanished from a hotel car park in the evening of 15 July 1977. Bloodstains were later found next to his locked van in the car park. Presumed murdered, Donald's body has never been found.

Please click on the link for Donald's listing on Wikipedia.
Kylie Forrest McKAY DOB: 1967
A 35 year old mother of 2 from Green Point who last contacted her husband via text message about 9.45am on Tuesday 25 June 2002 advising she would collect their children from primary school and playschool later that day. She failed to collect her children and has not been seen since.
Neil Sydney McKENZIE DOB: 1972
A 34 year old man who was last seen at his Redfern place of work at at 3.20pm Tuesday 2 May 2006. The following day his vehicle was located abandoned with no fuel on the Putty Road at Singleton.

Lynette MELBIN
DOB: 03/03/1957
A 15 year old Kingswood girl (and twin) who told her mother whilst they were out shopping she was going home to get changed before heading to her boyfriend's place. She never arrived at her boyfriend's place and was last seen waiting at a bus stop at Penrith Plaza on 5 June 1972.


 
Mark MELVILLE DOB: N/A
A 38 year old man who was last seen at Hornsby Railway Station in September 1990. His belongings were later found on a bush track at Mt Kurringai.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW STATE GOVERNMENT - AUGUST 2007 
Peter MESSARITI

DOB: N/A
Male who was last seen at Bombala (approx 2 hours south of Canberra) on the 15 November 1998.

Michelle Marie MILLS DOB: 23/07/1961
A 39 year old Mudgee woman who last spoke to her family on 12 August 2000.

$100 000 REWARD OFFERED BY NSW STATE GOVERNMENT - APRIL 2007
Stephen MITCHELL DOB: 1971
A 35 year old man who was last seen leaving the home of another family member in Beverly Hills on 20 March 2007. He was suffering depression at the time of his disappearance.
Elaine MORGAN DOB: 1959
A 48 year old Turramurra mother of two who was last seen dropping her daughter off at a dance academy on Mona Vale Road St Ives about 4pm on Tuesday 17 April. The following day her white Subaru Forrester four-wheel-drive was discovered in the carpark at the North Head lookout.
Leslie Raymond MORRISON DOB: 1939
A 68 year old man who was last seen in the Kanwal area on the 29 May 2007. There are concerns for his health and welfare.

Bianca Renne NELSON
DOB: 27/05/1977
A 14 year old girl last seen running away from her Regents Park home after her bedroom window was discovered open on 2 May 1991.
DOB: 23/05/1980
A 24 year old woman who was last seen in Dubbo on 4 January 2005. Lateesha had left her four children with her mother prior to her disappearance. Police hold grave fears for her safety and welfare.

Plea:

Teesha You may be out of sight, We may be worlds apart, But you're always in our thoughts, And forever in our hearts.

Born Lateesha Jane Peet on the 23 May 1980 at Dubbo and was known to friends as Lateesha Nolan or Teesha. Please people you can help us find out what happen to our daughter by joining her cause on face book called Help Find Out What Happened To Lateesha Nolan Missing From Dubbo Australia 4/01/2005

Please take a look by going to this link
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/202473/18672434?m

Bernard Vincent REARDON DOB: 24/02/1965
A 24 year old Kensington man who was last seen by his flatmates about midday on 18 January 1989. Bernard told his flatmates he was going to see a doctor at Maroubra instead of going to work that day but never made it to the doctor's surgery.
DOB: 16/09/1961
A 14 year old Hillsdale girl who did not return home after attending Matraville High School on 7 April 1975.
Jun REN DOB: Unknown
A Chinese national who moved to Sydney in February 1990 and was married in Decemeber that same year. She was last seen by her husband in Kemps Creek May 1991.
Stephen James ROACH DOB: 20/11/1917
A 75 year old pensioner last seen trying to withdraw money from the Commonwealth Bank at Ingleburn after leaving his home in Cumberland Road on 10 November 1993. He was driving a lime green 1978 Datsun 180D with a black vinyl roof - Registration No. HPM-054 - which has not been located. Stephen has Alzheimers disease.

DOB: 27/02/1965
An 14 year old girl who was last sighted walking towards her home along Lake Road Swansea after attending a school dance on the 21 April 1979.

Please click on the link to read about the 2002 Coronial Inquests into the disappearance of Amanda Robinson, Leanne Goodall and Robyn Hickie.
James ROTHFIELD DOB: 1965
An 31 year old man last seen at Hornsby on 12 July 1996. He failed to keep a scheduled appointment at 10 am that day.
Richard SAJKO DOB: 1973
A 22 year old man last seen wearing his Avis employee's uniform at Mascot on 14 May 1995.
Kylee Ann SCHAFFER DOB: 1985
A 19 year old female last seen walking off into dense bushland after attending a party with friends at Wilsons Rd Willawarrin on 11 September 2004.
Muhammed SCHAFIQUE DOB: 1959
A 50 year old male last seen in Rhodes, Sydney 18 September 2008.

build = medium
height = 170
haircolour = black
hairstyle = short
eyecolour = brown
complexion = dark
distinguishingfeatures = wears glasses


Plea: I am his daughter and since his disappearance i have been living alone and the police are unable to locate my father.
Koji SHIRAISHI DOB: 1971
An Asian man last seen at Darlinghurst on 28(29?) August 1995 after returning from a 2 week holiday in Japan. He failed to start work as a chef a few days later at the Yakuta Japanese Restaurant in Surrey Hills.
Ian Norman STANTON DOB: 1980
An 23 year old man last seen by his family at Bundanoon in the Southern Highlands of NSW on the 9 May 2003.
   
Charles Greyson SUDDUTH DOB: 16/09/1935
A 69 year old American man who flew from the USA to Australia arriving at Sydney Airport on 5 March 2004. He has not made contact with family or friends since his arrival.
Janine VAUGHAN DOB: 1970
A 31 year old Bathurst woman last seen entering a salmon coloured Hyundai or a a bright red coloured 4 door medium size sedan similar to a Mitsubishi Magna around 4am on Friday 7 December 2001.
James Benjamin WEST DOB: 1970
A 35 year old man last seen at his home in Blackheath around 11 am on 27 August 2006.
Gerald George WHITEFOOT

DOB: 08/07/1933
A 43 year old man who went missing from Liverpool on 9 december 1977. Prior to his disappearance Gerald worked in the glass companies and also in clubs as a steward.

build = medium
height = 5ft 5ins
haircolour = black
hairstyle = short
eyecolour = hazel
complexion = olive
distinguishing features = tatoos of a bird, true love, mum, snake around a sword on arms


Plea:
Gerald was married to me for 20 years and has 7 children. He was reported missing to the police station at Liverpool NSW in 1977 and has made no further contact with any member of his family for 31 years. No closure, dates never escape you, memories are hard to bare.

Gerald's wife

James Douglas WHYTE

DOB: 1972
A 31 year old man who vanished whilst driving his truck from Adelaide back to Queensland. He was last seen at Collarenebri NSW around 9.15am on 15 November 2003 and his truck was located on rural property in Collymongle cotton station NSW (east of Collarenebri) the following day.


 
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