Mystery surrounding Elisa Curry's disappearance deepens as police shift search
The Age
Anna Prytz
45 mins ago (as at 10:45 AEST 5 October 2017)
‘Mystery surrounding the disappearance of Elisa Curry has deepened, as police shift their search for the missing mother from bushland near her family's holiday home to neighbouring properties.
An intensive four-day hunt has yielded no sign of the 43-year-old mother of three and keen marathon runner who was last seen at her family's holiday home in Aireys Inlet, near the Great Ocean Road, on Saturday night.
State Emergency Service, the Country Fire Authority, Parks Victoria and police Airwing personnel spent days searching bushland, beaches and cliffs within a 20-kilometre radius of the Currys' holiday home.
But those search crews were stood down on Wednesday afternoon.
"Unfortunately the best medical advice is that if she is in the bush that the chances of her being alive are very remote," Inspector Peter Seel told Channel Seven.
The search will be turned over to police, who will focus their efforts on a 150-metre radius of the Currys' home on Aireys Street.
Police will spend the day doorknocking the Currys' neighbours in the small holiday town, and checking backyards and sheds.
Inspector Seel said Ms Curry's husband David and three young children, aged seven to 12, were "very distressed”.
There has been no sign of Ms Curry since a neighbour visited her about 10pm on Saturday.
Details of Ms Curry's movements on the day she disappeared are still unclear.
There had been speculation she went for a late night run with the family dog, but Inspector Seel said on Wednesday that was "doubtful".
"Without any real witnesses to tell us she was seen leaving the home [at] whatever time on Sunday morning or the middle of the night, we just don't know," Inspector Seel said.
Ms Curry's husband reported her missing on Sunday morning after arriving home to find his wife, her mobile phone and the family's black labrador gone.
The dog was found by a neighbour distressed and roaming the streets late on Monday afternoon.
Inspector Seel eliminated the theory Ms Curry had taken the family dog for a run and said it more likely the Labrador had escaped.
An Aireys Inlet neighbour said many locals had joined the search.
"You can't help but keep looking," she said.
"She's a mother and a daughter and a wife and a friend."
Anyone who has information or sees Ms Curry is urged to phone triple zero.’
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