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A Melbourne mother who has been missing for almost a week discussed a “personal matter” with a neighbour, before vanishing from her beachside holiday home on Victoria’s Surf Coast.
Authorities will today continue the search for Elisa Curry, from Surrey Hills in Melbourne’s east, after scouring the rugged coastline, bushland and nearby properties for signs of the 43-year-old, who has not been seen or heard from since Saturday.
The last person to see Ms Curry was a female neighbour, who, together with her husband, had been at Ms Curry’s house for part of the evening celebrating the Richmond Tigers’ AFL grand final win. According to police, the couple went home but the female neighbour later returned to Ms Curry’s house alone to talk over a “personal matter”.
She has told investigators that she left about 10pm, and saw Ms Curry get into bed.
Police have not disclosed the nature of the personal matter but said it was a “small part of a bigger investigation”.
“There was another lady, a friend of hers, who had been with her and watched the football together. The neighbours are a different group,” Inspector Peter Seel said yesterday.
“They both left, then the female neighbour came back.”
A document released by Victoria Police last night said Ms Curry suffered from depression and was reported to be an alcoholic.
Inspector Seel said the case was proving different to a typical missing person investigation in that there were virtually no clues. “Normally you might have a direction of travel, or a car left somewhere, or a phone pings, or things (are) not at home,” he said.
“The difficulty here is we haven’t had any of that. We don’t know what she was wearing, we don’t know the time, what her state of mind was.
“It was difficult to gather that together and know what’s happened. It’s different in that sense; there is nothing we can use at the moment to know what’s happened.”
Police know Ms Curry, a marathoner runner, had been in contact with her husband David on Saturday night via text message as they discussed the AFL result, and she also sent a SMS to The Herald Sun newspaper on the topic of same-sex marriage at 2.21pm. Her mobile phone, which is still missing, was last “pinged” at the Aireys Inlet home at 10.30pm but was then switched off.
Police refused to comment yesterday on Ms Curry’s state of mind in the weeks leading up to her disappearance, but said neighbours believe she wasn’t in any distress and was “upbeat” about Richmond’s win.
She was initially thought to have become lost or injured after going for a run late on Saturday or early on Sunday morning, with the search focused on parks, cliffs and the remote coastal trails the keen marathoner was known to frequent. However, police have conceded they were uncertain whether she went for a run at all, and are exploring it as only one of several lines of inquiry.
