Police in fresh appeal to find missing New South Wales woman as national campaign begins
Police are appealing again for information to help find a New South Wales woman last seen four years ago as Missing Persons Week begins.
Elizabeth Forman, aged 75, was last seen on Thursday, October 1, 2020, at a property on Friday Hut Road in Brooklet, about 20km north of Ballina, in the state’s Northern Rivers region.
Police say she was spotted taking a walk there at about 11.40am.
When she was reported missing, officers held serious concerns for Forman’s welfare given her dementia.
A search was launched across the area for three days, but found no sign of her.
At the time, witnesses reported seeing a woman matching her description on Ocean Drive, Alstonville – about 20km southwest of where she was last seen – about 6.30pm on Friday, October 2, 2020.
Police also searched this area but found no signs of Forman.
She is described as being of Caucasian appearance, with a thin build and dyed short blue hair. She was wearing a navy-blue top and black pants at the time of her disappearance.
Her family and police are urging anyone that may have been in the area at the time and saw a woman matching her description to contact police.
Detective Inspector Ritchie Sim, head of of the NSW Police Missing Person Registry, says finding Forman remains a priority for police.
“Elizabeth is one of the many vulnerable missing people our detectives are still looking for across the state,” he said.
“Every day police receive reports that a person living with dementia, or some other form of memory loss, has gone missing and every single one of those missing people become of a priority for us to find.”
Sim also urged people to keep an eye on their loved ones who are vulnerable, check in on them regularly and know the areas they frequent in case they go missing.
Missing Persons Week is an annual national campaign to highlight missing persons and unidentified bodies and human remains cases.
It runs until Saturday, August 3.
Anyone with information about missing persons should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or lodge a confidential online report.
