Australia Lisa Mott, 12, Collie - Western Australia, 30 October 1980

[wrestlingpigs]

Lisa Mott was last seen at approximately 20.30 on Thursday October 30, 1980. She was waiting in the main street of the West Australian town of Collie where she was to be picked up by a family friend and returned home after a basketball game.

Lisa was last seen speaking to a person in a yellow panel van in Forrest Street.

Despite extensive inquiries by police and family and comprehensive media coverage, there has been no information regarding her whereabouts since then.

In 2000, Western Australian police reopened the case.

A $1,000,000 reward has recently been offered by the WA police for information resulting in the recovery of Lisa or the arrest and conviction of her murderer.

Doe Network File
Justice for Lisa - WA Police
$1m reward offered

 

[Occula]

I just had to put Her face to this thread...Photo from Your W.A. Police link posted.

Yes where is Lisa Mott? I really Hope this reward money brings someone forward with information. EBM Posted halfway through writing...still getting used to posting

 

[DRT]

I thought I would post a link to the case from crimestoppers.

MISSING (SUSPICIOUS) LISA MARIE MOTT – COLLIE WA – $1 MILLION REWARD - Crime Stoppers Western Australia

DESCRIPTION: 12 years of age at time of disappearance. Fair complexion. 152cms (5 feet) tall. Thin build. Light brown hair. Hazel eyes. Was last seen wearing a light blue t-shirt, dark blue towelling shorts with a white trim around the legs and a pair of brown and fawn striped sneakers with white...

www.crimestopperswa.com.au

I had always heard the version of Lisa last seen talking to a person in a yellow panel van.

Crimestoppers is a community organisation that works in conjunction with police allowing people to put in an anonymous tips online or via a telephone tip line.

The Crimestoppers case description doesn't mention the yellow panel van. The timeframe is a little different.

CASE DETAILS:

At 6.45pm on Thursday 30 October 1980, Lisa left her home address to go to the local basketball courts situated on Throssell Street, Collie. At the time she was accompanied by a friend and had her mother’s permission to attend the courts on the understanding that she would get a lift home with the mother of Lisa’s friend. This was only the third time Lisa had been permitted out at night time with all previous occasions; to attend the basketball courts.

Lisa shot some goals at the courts but spent most of her time talking and socialising with several friends. At 8.45pm Lisa and a friend went to a pizza shop opposite the courts and returned to the courts a few minutes later.

At 9pm Lisa decided to walk home, with a friend accompanying her part of the way. They walked along Throssell Street, turning right on to Harvey Street towards the railway crossing. Within this vicinity Lisa’s friend stopped as she had to return to the basketball courts, and watched Lisa cross the railway line to Forrest Street.

This was the last time Lisa was sighted and she has not been seen since. The person or persons responsible for Lisa’s disappearance have not yet been identified.

 

[HopeValleyDevil]

Lisa Mott, last seen talking to someone in a yellow panel van in Forrest st, Collie.

Basketball would have been a weekly thing. Anybody stalking could have predicted her path home each week, or twice.

Another person, Annette Deverell went missing September 1980, seen in a panel van.

Andrew Garforth is a possible, who stalked young girls. Later following a bus and killing a school girl who got off at a bus stop.

Throssell St, Collie

Throssell St · Collie WA 6225, Australia

Collie WA 6225, Australia

maps.app.goo.gl

 

[HopeValleyDevil]

Here are some link details to Andrew Garforth. His final arrest was another state where he stalked a school girl on a bus and abducted her once she departed the bus.

There are claims he committed crimes in WA. Check out his vehicle ownership in WA.

Andrew Garforth | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Murderpedia, the free online encyclopedic dictionary of murderers. The largest database about serial killers, mass murderers and spree killers around the world

murderpedia.org

Murder of Ebony Simpson - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Note the date was 1979 and the area was southern, as is Collie.

Andrew Peter Garforth is also suspected of the unsolved 1979 murder of West Australian teenager Felicia Marie Wilson, 19, of Kwinana, Perth

Garforth had a couple of vehicles.

Mandurah to Collie is only 90 minutes away.

From Mandurah to Collie, Google Maps:

Mandurah to Collie

Unsolved murders of the time occurred in the vicinity with dead bodies in Pinjarra

Annette Deverell - Murder

Ms Deverell was just 19 when she disappeared from outside the Mandurah Post Office on September 13, 1980 after a night out with friends. He...

missingandmurderedaustralia.blogspot.com

 

[DRT]

Here are some link details to Andrew Garforth. His final arrest was another state where he stalked a school girl on a bus and abducted her once she departed the bus.

There are claims he committed crimes in WA. Check out his vehicle ownership in WA.

Andrew Garforth | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Murderpedia, the free online encyclopedic dictionary of murderers. The largest database about serial killers, mass murderers and spree killers around the world

murderpedia.org

Murder of Ebony Simpson - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Note the date was 1979 and the area was southern, as is Collie.


Garforth had a couple of vehicles.

Mandurah to Collie is only 90 minutes away.

From Mandurah to Collie, Google Maps:

Mandurah to Collie

Unsolved murders of the time occurred in the vicinity with dead bodies in Pinjarra

Annette Deverell - Murder

Ms Deverell was just 19 when she disappeared from outside the Mandurah Post Office on September 13, 1980 after a night out with friends. He...

missingandmurderedaustralia.blogspot.com

Andrew Garforth was born August 8, 1963. He would have been 17 in 1980 and 16 in 1979. I think he might be a bit young to be considered.

I would be more inclined to look at David Birnie born 1951 as a possible suspect who had access to a yellow panel van at the time and lived near Collie.

 

[dotr]

May 17 2023

$1 million reward for dozens of unsolved Western Australia murders, missing person cases

www.9news.com.au

Lisa Marine Mott and Sarah Anne McMahon are both long -ime missing persons. (Crime Stoppers)

'Investigators are hoping dozens of decades-old unsolved murders and missing persons cases in Western Australia will be resolved after the government announced $1 million rewards.
There are now 64 open investigations with a $1 million incentive for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the cold case homicides.'
The government hopes the reward will encourage people to come forward with crucial information to help solve the cases.
"These significant rewards give people who have vital information one million reasons to come forward," Police Minister Paul Papalia said.''

2020

Mum hopes $1million reward can solve 40-year-old missing kid mystery

Lisa Marie Mott, 12, disappeared without a trace in the Western Australian town of Collie on October 30, 1980.

www.dailymail.co.uk

''One mum's desperate hope that a $1million reward can finally solve the 40-year-old mystery of her missing daughter - after she disappeared without a trace after a basketball game​

• Lisa Marie Mott, 12, disappeared without a trace in Western Australia in 1980
• Her mother, Marion Flower, 77, is pleading for information with $1million reward
• Lisa had left a basketball court and was waiting to be picked up but vanished
• Ms Flower said she still has hope someone may have some information''

 

[dotr]

Nov 6 2024 rbbm

Cold Case detectives in Collie as part of Lisa Mott disappearance

Cold Case detectives will be stationed at a mobile police facility in Collie today as part of their ongoing investigation into the disappearance of 12-year-old schoolgirl Lisa Mott over 40 years ago.

www.coastlive.com.au

''Cold Case detectives will be stationed at a mobile police facility in Collie today as part of their ongoing investigation into the disappearance of 12-year-old schoolgirl Lisa Mott over 40 years ago.

On October 30, 1980, Lisa had gone to Collie's local basketball courts on Throssell Street with a friend and, about 8.45pm, she went to a nearby pizza shop.

The schoolgirl then started walking home about 9pm and was last seen crossing a railway line to Forrest Street when she vanished.''

 

[DRT]

There has also been a WA Police Podcast on Apple podcasts that you can listen to. The last 2 episodes are about Lisa.

Cold Case Western Australia

True Crime Podcast · 2 Seasons · Updated Weekly

podcasts.apple.com

Also another article

Lisa Mott was last seen getting into a yellow panel van four decades ago. Can she be found?

Lisa Mott was 12 years old when she disappeared from her home in Collie in October 1980. Cold case investigators have returned to the town in the hope of drawing out fresh leads.

www.abc.net.au

 

[TootsieFootsie]

9News - Latest news and headlines from Australia and the world

Latest news and headlines from Australia and the world

www.9news.com.au

An abandoned panel van could hold answers to the disappearance of school girl Lisa Mott in Collie almost 45 years ago.

 

[worldwatcher]

9News - Latest news and headlines from Australia and the world

Latest news and headlines from Australia and the world

www.9news.com.au

An abandoned panel van could hold answers to the disappearance of school girl Lisa Mott in Collie almost 45 years ago.

That sounds interesting, I just read up about the missing of 12 yo, Lisa Mott..

Let's hope, old records of owner registration are still there..

"He said the search would continue for around four hours, with the main goal finding any additional material connected to the van including number plates, roof racks, or other identifying material."

Abandoned panel van could hold clues to teen's disappearance 44 years ago

Did police (att) tracked the tip from a witness who believed that the van, wich she was last seen - to be a Holden model produced between 1970 and 1978??

 

[dotr]

March 29 2025 lengthy article.

‘I still love you to bits’: Mother’s anguish 44 years after her 12yo daughter vanished

The mystery of what happened to 12-year-old Lisa Mott has baffled police for more than four decades and caused untold anguish to her family. But now detectives say they've made a breakthrough.

www.abc.net.au

Lisa Mott was just 12 years old when she went missing from her home town of Collie in 1980. (Supplied: WA Police Media)
"In a video interview with WA Police in 2023 recorded for their Cold Case podcast, Lisa's mother, now called Marion Flower, spoke of the devastating aftermath.

"I went into shock and I ended up in the Collie Hospital in the middle of the night," a frail looking Mrs Flower said.

"I was screaming and I could not stop myself. The night sister put me under a shower and left me there until I calmed down."

''This week police dropped the bombshell news that they were re-investigating a yellow Holden HQ panel van found abandoned in bushland about two kilometres south of Collie in 1996, based on new information they received after setting up a mobile facility in the town late last year.''

''This yellow panel van, dumped in forest near Mumbellup, is at the centre of the renewed cold case investigation into Lisa's disappearance. (ABC South West WA: Jacquie Lynch)

The van was discounted as being relevant to the case when it was initially reported in 1996, and detectives had begun to wonder whether Susan's recollection of Lisa getting into the yellow panel van was accurate.

But in 2004 a man came forward to corroborate Susan's account.''

 

[Occula]

Great to see some news here. Now that I've seen the photo of this dumped Panel Van, I'm left to wonder if sighted Van had side windows or not. In saying that, the side windows are easily covered back up with the panels, You can see the photo where the indent is around the windows, that's where the panels click back on.

DB is a very strong possibility just from what I've read over the Years, Although, I have a couple of POI....One had a Yellow HQ Panel Van, hence My wondering.
I have recent in-laws that live down that way. Not Collie but close, lived there for years. Very soon I'm going to visit them and bring this topic up and others. They managed several pubs in the District, I'm Hoping for Town gossip or any Clue. I Know that I can't bring gossip or clues to the table here...on this platform, but I Will attempt to back-up any info I get and pass it on if relevant...To the Authorities.

IMHO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

MSN

ABC News Australia

Lisa Mott cold case detectives receive more than 190 new reports from public​

 

[dotr]

April 3 2025

Cold case detectives probing 12yo's disappearance receive 190 new tips

WA police receive fresh information from the public off the back of a renewed search for clues on Lisa Mott's disappearance in 1980, but breakthroughs remain elusive.

www.abc.net.au

''In short:​

Detectives are unable rule a yellow panel van from their investigations into missing Collie schoolgirl Lisa Mott, last seen in 1980.

Police have received 190 new reports from the public, off the back of a recent search of bushland where the panel van was found.

What's next?​

Investigations continue and a $1 million reward for information leading to an arrest or conviction in the case remains unclaimed.''

 

[TootsieFootsie]

New clues revealed in Lisa Mott's unsolved WA cold case

It's been 45 years since schoolgirl Lisa Mott disappeared, and police hope new evidence will finally solve the decades-long mystery.

www.newidea.com.au

New Idea

The vanishing of Lisa Mott: New clues emerge in 45-year mystery​