Found Deceased AUS - Tayla Spies,29, white 2017 dual cab Toyota Hilux I’d also missing. Left a hotel in Daley & travelled west to Surat, Queensland, 2 Feb 25

[Rocket333]

If she takes the roma-condy road, she would head towards yuleba creek, which is approximately 50km south of yuleba, a town which is on the warrego hwy. I attached some pictures above. Attached is a map of the area, hopefully this explains as the media have it messed up.

The second map shows the way she could have gone to surat. Given the video footage from condy roadhouse, she went via the condy hwy as from that servo you head left and over the bridge, which means she most likely went by the red line.

That makes sense, as the red line route you provided above (Dalby to Condy, Yuleba-Surat Road to Carnarvon Hwy, turn south to Surat, and then back north to Roma) cuts at least 30 minutes off a long drive.

 

[truthfinder2019]

This msn shows a route

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/dalby/police-courts/28yearold-woman-missing-from-the-roma-and-dalby-area/news-story/b20af7abfa4b6e102f1cdd80ce55a6bc

 

[Rocket333]

I haven't kept up with the case very well, so apologies if I'm rehashing old stuff, but I have questions.

• Do we know what business she was in town for yet? Was she still doing event planning? Her business Instagram page hasn't had a post in 2 years. Was there an event on that weekend that may have required her services? It's a town of over 12,000 people, so I imagine there would have been. Engagement parties, weddings, 21st etc. The Windsor Hotel does have a function room. Do we know why she didn't travel with her partner, either the Friday night or the Saturday morning?
• Do we know what time the boyfriend left the hotel? What was his demeanor? Did they kiss or say goodbye before leaving each other? 8am is early to leave on a Sunday, was there a reason for this? It's only about 3 hours travel time, did she/they have lunch plans back in Roma?
• Do we know why she went the longer way, via Surat? There was mention of stopping to see friends, has this been elaborated on? Were they in Surat? Did she see them? How long for, and what was her demeanor? What was she wearing then? Why did she change? Did she have a meeting of some sort planned, and if so, what type that would require changing clothes a few hours into the day, and the same style she was already wearing?
• Did she stop at any place apart from for fuel? Didn't her boyfriend say he met her somewhere on the side of the road? If so, when? Why did they stop? Did he expect her to come straight home and be home at a similar time? If so, why did he not contact police earlier? If he knew she'd be longer, why have we not learnt why, and what times she was expected at certain places?
• Is he the father of all her kids? Are there any other baby daddy's in the picture?
• Any mention of what was in the heavy bag she was carrying? Was that all her luggage? What luggage did her partner have?

@mishy66 has answered some of these over the past 5 pages of the thread. I don’t believe Tayla had any kids with her current bf (TN), and a previous partner (kids father?) is in prison.

She was there (Dalby) for Thursday and TN (boyfriend) arrived on the Friday Night. Tayla and her family lived there (Dalby) previously. Her sister has said she was there to see friends

TN arrived into Dalby on the Friday - Tayla arrived on the Thursday for the weekend.
The last time they met up was Sunday afternoon. He called the police on Monday.

I believe the friends were her partners friends

Her and her family use to live in the town (Dalby). This bag was stuff from storage her sister has mentioned.

100% agree with you. Vehicle hidden and TS maybe also hidden. I do have a theory but as yet police havent mentioned so keeping that theory closed for the minute. I do believe TN knows why she went in the other direction that day and he wouldn't be saying to the police. But hopefully the police will be barrelling down that avenue by now

There would be so much that the public has not been told

The change of clothes came about because apparently a photo of Tayla was sent from her phone to her sisters phone on snapchat - this was discussed very early on

FACT - The car rego ceased March 16 so it's now unregistered

FACT - Tayla was in Dalby because she had just picked up that car from an employee. It is her work vehicle.

FACT - She arrives into Dalby Thursday

FACT -TN arrives Friday Night

FACT - They stay at the Dalby Hotel and both leave in their separate cars.

FACT - Sunday afternoon she has changed clothing and her handbag for some reason - reason yet to be made public.

I did read an early comment that they had been visiting friends of his on the Sunday.

Could this be the reason she had changed her clothing? Before visiting them?
Or did she have a job interview as a station hand on a property ? She was looking for more work. So many possibilities as to why she changed clothing.


FACT - Her phone last pinged East of Surat Sunday afternoon of Feb 2nd and hasn't been used since.

HER MOBILE PHONE LAST PINGED GOING TOWARD ROMA – POLICE SAY THIS IS INCONSISTENT TO HER TRAVELING TOWARD NSW = HER MOBILE PHONE (TELECOMMUNICATIONS DATA) PUTS HER NORTH TOWARD ROMA , THIS IS ONE HOUR AFTER HER VEHICLE WAS SEEN IN SURAT ( so it is now 12.15PM)

The last official sighting of her is a witness who spotted her passing the Cobb & Co Changing Station in Surat, 80km west of Roma in rural Queensland, around 11am.


SOMEWHERE between around 11 am of the last sighting to 12:15pm of the phone ping - Tayla and her CAR, goes off grid. Her car has not been sighted. Every area has been searched for this car, using man power, boats and drones. NO CAR. The car has to have been hidden somewhere.


A relative of the current partner was saying how distressed he is, "absolutely heartbroken"

FACT - the current partner on the dating app Tinder during the time Tayla went missing and posted up something for sale on marketplace ( which has now been taken down) , 2 days after Tayla went missing.
Posted image of himself and his mate both smiling on March 3 , with the caption "in Mexico City Mexico"

Sounds heartbroken for sure

FACT - Partner reports her missing on the Monday

FACT - Her previous partner, to this current one, was a long time criminal - theft / drugs / DV
Now back in prison

 

[HoneyBunOne]

@mishy66 has answered some of these over the past 5 pages of the thread. I don’t believe Tayla had any kids with her current bf (TN), and a previous partner (kids father?) is in prison.

Thanks, I'll have to find time to go over it all, but I think I still have unanswered questions from above, and perhaps even more.

 

[Rocket333]

Thanks, I'll have to find time to go over it all, but I think I still have unanswered questions from above, and perhaps even more.

All that’s publicly known is pretty much on this thread. It’s not much but this case doesn’t have a big profile, much attention, or police appeals and updates. Makes me wonder if the police are well and truly onto it and don’t need to rely on any extra help from the public.
Idk JMO

 

[mishy66]

Apologies but I am not convinced, there is no cut at that moment, as the plants nearby are moving with the wind and there isn’t the slitest jump in motion when you zoom in. Rather you do see a cut just after when she walks away to pay and returning to her car. I can accept better the explanation of the high flow pump, even though I find it hard to understand even under high pressure how anyone can fill in such a tank in 5/6 secs only.
Anyone with a HD screen to read the data on the pump?
For me this is an important clue

The family have seen the full footage and confirmed she filled up

 

[BreakingNews]

All that’s publicly known is pretty much on this thread. It’s not much but this case doesn’t have a big profile, much attention, or police appeals and updates. Makes me wonder if the police are well and truly onto it and don’t need to rely on any extra help from the public.
Idk JMO

I think it was on A Current Affair, a national show. But I agree this should remain in the public eye.

 

[Rocket333]

When leaving Surat Tayla may have driven to to the toilet block at the Recreation Grounds on Ivan Street. She may have changed her shirt there before driving towards Roma.
If she was wearing a white shirt when the bf last saw her, and when north of Surat, she’s changed shirts somewhere. Women would opt for the closest public bathroom or toilet block. Maybe this was why she turned left out of Surat.

 

[chief quimby]

Good idea, and she may have changed clothes for a very simple reason, like was drinking cofee on the way and spilt it...!

 

[chief quimby]

I wonder why they never showed the photo of her in the white shirt that was sent to her family on the news etc

 

[HoneyBunOne]

I wonder why they never showed the photo of her in the white shirt that was sent to her family on the news etc

Agreed. I wonder a lot of things about this case, many of them around the boyfriend.

 

[BreakingNews]

Good idea, and she may have changed clothes for a very simple reason, like was drinking cofee on the way and spilt it...!

But didn't she change handbags as wel

 

[HoneyBunOne]

But didn't she change handbags as wel

Allegedly, which makes zero sense to me as a woman. Unless it was a bigger bag, to hold maybe a resume, or portfolio as there was talk of her looking for work. However, she was still dressed very casually, regardless of which shirt she was wearing. Now I know she probably wouldn't be dressing for an interview like she might if it was a job as a lawyer in a capital city, but I still think the shorts she was wearing were not interview worthy, nor the thongs (flip flops for you non-Aussies). Or have I missed where she changed bottoms and shoes as well as tops and handbags?

If she sent a snapchat to her sister of her wearing the clothes she changed into later in the day, I don't know why we haven't been more informed of those. Granted, there is no photo (if the snapchat was deleted with 24 hours) of her wearing that, but a better description, including of the bag, would help. Maybe there was a change of hair style, maybe the addition of make up, change of shoes, etc as well.

 

[chief quimby]

Could the bag she had at the servo in condy be a mimco hand bag?? I know nothing about hand bags, but in the video it looks like this one, so perhaps it's the way the media wrote it that makes it sound like she changed bags, when all she did was change her clothes??

 

[Rocket333]

Why did Tayla go to the Surat township?

She was filmed driving past the Cobb & Co Changing Station in her boss’s ute.

There’s no known footage of her in a cafe, shop or servo in Surat.

She allegedly afterwards met her partner and his friends 30kms north of Surat.

So why did she detour beforehand south to Surat?

Was it simply to find a loo and change into something cooler or smarter or a work shirt before continuing north to meet her partner and his friends?

 

[chief quimby]

Why did Tayla go to the Surat township?

She was filmed driving past the Cobb & Co Changing Station in her boss’s ute.

There’s no known footage of her in a cafe, shop or servo in Surat.

She allegedly afterwards met her partner and his friends 30kms north of Surat.

So why did she detour beforehand south to Surat?

Was it simply to find a loo and change into something cooler or smarter or a work shirt before continuing north to meet her partner and his friends?

To be honest, her travel times really don't match her meeting with friends... she basically drives straight from condamine to surat, with maybe 15 minutes to spare, depending on the way she went... then on time from surat to the condamine turn-off, then her phone pings 50 minutes after she left surat in a NE direction, timing for a 10 minute conversation with someone, then her phone (not necessarily her) possibly reaches the service hill assuming she took the roma condamine road (where everyone pulls up to make phone calls) there's not much time for socialising, in my opinion anyways...

 

[Rocket333]

To be honest, her travel times really don't match her meeting with friends... she basically drives straight from condamine to surat, with maybe 15 minutes to spare, depending on the way she went... then on time from surat to the condamine turn-off, then her phone pings 50 minutes after she left surat in a NE direction, timing for a 10 minute conversation with someone, then her phone (not necessarily her) possibly reaches the service hill assuming she took the roma condamine road (where everyone pulls up to make phone calls) there's not much time for socialising, in my opinion anyways...

I think the meet up was with her partner and his friends 30k’s north of Surat, not in Surat itself.
I’m wondering if she deviated 9ks south to Surat solely to pop into a toilet or change room.

 

[HoneyBunOne]

I think the meet up was with her partner and his friends 30k’s north of Surat, not in Surat itself.
I’m wondering if she deviated 9ks south to Surat solely to pop into a toilet or change room.

Where did you hear about the meet up? What town, if any, is 30km North of Surat?

 

[Mystieone]

Police are seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a 28-year-old woman missing from the Roma and Dalby areas since February 2, 2025.

Tayla Spies (pictured below) was last seen travelling along the Carnarvon Highway, just south of the Condamine turnoff heading towards Roma between the hours of 10am and 1pm, on Sunday afternoon February 2.

The vehicle she was travelling in (pictured below) is a white 2017 dual cab Toyota Hilux with a distinctive black bumper bar and blacked out wheels with Queensland registration 559 GJ7.

Police and family hold serious concerns for her welfare.

Tayla is described as Caucasian, with brown shoulder length hair, blue eyes, slim build and approximately 170cms tall.

She is known to frequently travel between Roma and Dalby.

She was last seen wearing a fluorescent pink long sleeve shirt and light-coloured shorts (pictured below).

Police are appealing to anyone with information about her whereabouts, to immediately come forward.

Missing woman, Dalby/Roma - Queensland Police News

Police are seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a 28-year-old woman missing from the Roma and Dalby areas since February 2, 2025. Tayla Spies

mypolice.qld.gov.au

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Police are seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a 28-year-old woman missing from the Roma and Dalby areas since February 2, 2025.

Tayla Spies (pictured below) was last seen travelling along the Carnarvon Highway, just south of the Condamine turnoff heading towards Roma between the hours of 10am and 1pm, on Sunday afternoon February 2.

The vehicle she was travelling in (pictured below) is a white 2017 dual cab Toyota Hilux with a distinctive black bumper bar and blacked out wheels with Queensland registration 559 GJ7.

Police and family hold serious concerns for her welfare.

Tayla is described as Caucasian, with brown shoulder length hair, blue eyes, slim build and approximately 170cms tall.

She is known to frequently travel between Roma and Dalby.

She was last seen wearing a fluorescent pink long sleeve shirt and light-coloured shorts (pictured below).

Police are appealing to anyone with information about her whereabouts, to immediately come forward.

Missing woman, Dalby/Roma - Queensland Police News

Police are seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a 28-year-old woman missing from the Roma and Dalby areas since February 2, 2025. Tayla Spies

mypolice.qld.gov.au

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I have a few questions in relation to some of the news reports. No accusations just things that don’t make sense to myself.

ACA states Tayla met with friends at Surat. She then met with her boyfriend after the meeting with friends.

Tayla was seen leaving town, was her partner in the vicinity? I understand they wouldn’t show his car on camera, but in trips I’ve done seperate from my partner but together we generally stay close by. We stop together to have coffee. Try to stay in visual contact kind of thing, thru Sydney can be challenging but on roads like this it would be quite easy.

Which way did the partner go home if he was travelling with her in another car, was he in front or behind or a totally different route.

The friends she met, was there a reason she met with them and the partner seperate?

In the meet up after the friends, and the last time she was seen, which was by her partner and on camera leaving town. Was he still travelling and was he behind her or was he visiting friends also that he may know in the area.

The direction it says she travelled was away from Roma, but the phone ping puts her phone in a 30 k radius of the route she would have been travelling to Roma, so even tho she went a different way, it looks to be headed towards Roma. Which means Tayla and or her phone could have been in a different car?

Why the delay with contact to report Tayla Missing, it says she was going home to see her kids and family after a weekend away, she was last seen by her partner prior to the video of her leaving town. If he went straight home, why was there no reports made until the next day? Myself I would be frantic if I knew my partner was supposed to be home around a time and it was a big delay.

Why hasn’t the partner been in any media report about Tayla. I’ve seen her sister make pleas but the partner hasn’t made one appearance I don’t think but has posted things about her missing. I know they wouldn’t tell the community of any contacts or history, but all these unanswered questions leave me guessing.

Plus the fact, where is the car?

 

[chief quimby]

I think the meet up was with her partner and his friends 30k’s north of Surat, not in Surat itself.
I’m wondering if she deviated 9ks south to Surat solely to pop into a toilet or change room.

Oh, ok, I thought she was meant to be meeting them in Surat... how strange, there's nothing other than pull off bays 30km north so strange...