A mother missing from Airey’s Inlet since the night of the AFL Grand Final spoke to a neighbour about a “personal” matter before disappearing, police have revealed.
Inspector Peter Seel declined to describe the nature of the personal matter at a press conference on Thursday as police continued searching for Elisa Curry.
The 43-year-old disappeared overnight before her husband David and their three children returned the next morning after attending the Grand Final.
Ms Curry had sent a text message to them the night before about the Grand Final result.
Police initially believed Ms Curry might have gone running with the family dog when she disappeared. A neighbour found the black Labrador roaming Airey’s Inlet alone on Monday.
Insp Seel confirmed on Thursday that Ms Curry was with married neighbours on the night she went missing.
“They’ve come over and spoken to her and she said she was going to bed,” he said.
“The neighbour and her husband were over there, they left and then the wife came back.”
Insp Seel said the female returned to Ms Curry’s home, which was when they discussed the undisclosed personal matter.
Her circumstances of her disappearance remained a mystery to police after four days of searching and numerous appeals for public help, he said.
Investigators lacked clues common in other cases, such as her clothing at the time, mobile phone signals and witnesses after she left the house.
“The difficulty here is we haven’t had any of that,” Insp Peter Seel said.
“We don’t know what she was wearing, we don’t know at the time what her state of mind was, so it’s difficult to gather all of that together and know what happened.”
Police this week widened the search to cliffs and waterways around Airey’s Inlet.
The search continued when the Indy went to press late on Thursday.
