Missing Melbourne mother Elisa Curry (pictured) was last seen by a neighbour on Saturday
A same-sex marriage twist has been revealed in the disappearance of Melbourne mother Elisa Curry, who vanished from her $1 million holiday home on Saturday night.
The 43-year-old mother-of-three was last seen by a neighbour at 10pm at the family’s holiday home in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, on Saturday.
Mrs Curry reportedly sent text messages expressing her views on the same-sex marriage debate in the final hours before she vanished.
She reportedly contacted a newspaper at 2.21pm on Saturday to weigh in on the same-sex marriage debate, saying: ‘I love and respect gay people and they deserve better than this’.
‘You should know what you are voting for before you cast your vote,’ Mrs Curry said in a Letter to the Editor of the Herald Sun.
‘Thank you John Howard for being forthright and honest in what has been a vicious campaign largely run by extremists.’
The 43-year-old mother-of-three was initially thought to have disappeared around 10pm on Saturday after watching the AFL Grand Final with neighbours at her $1 million holiday home (pictured) in Aireys Inlet
Mrs Curry, a former economist from Surrey Hills, in Melbourne’s inner-east, went on to watch the AFL Grand Final with her neighbours on Saturday night.
One of her neighbours told the police she was with Mrs Curry at her holiday home when she started to get ready for bed about 10pm.
When Mrs Curry’s husband, who was at the AFL game with the couple’s children, arrived at the house the following morning, she was not there.
The police search for the mother-of-three and former economist will enter its fifth day on Thursday.
Mrs Curry reportedly contacted a newspaper at 2.21pm on Saturday to weigh in on the same-sex marriage debate
Elisa’s husband David (pictured) spoke to the media on Monday and made an emotional plea to his wife to come home
Police initially believed she went missing after going on a jog with the family’s black labrador.
Police thought the labrador was with Mrs Curry before it was found in a distressed state, but uninjured, in a neighbouring yard.
Victoria Police Inspector Peter Seel said officers were now unsure if Mrs Curry went on a run at all.
Inspector Seel said police had not ruled out foul play.
As the search continued on Wednesday, police searched car parks, cliff and coastal trails.
But investigators now believe it’s possible she left the house early on Sunday morning for her habitual run – and may have become lost
Inspector Peter Seel said police had yet to determine which direction Ms Curry went after leaving the home.
‘It could have been toward the seaside to Aireys Inlet or bush tracks. She was known to run a fair bit to Lorne (20km away) and back,’ he told 3AW radio
‘It is possible that it could be dragged out. It depends on where they fell… if it was into rocks, the body could be caught within rocks under water.’
Despite the search for the 43-year-old entering its fifth day, Insp. Steel said he remained ‘hopeful she is alive’.
‘We’re looking for a live person at the moment. Obviously, yes, as time goes on the less likely it is that she’s alive.’
‘I, my kids, we just want her to come home,’ Mr Curry (pictured) in his address to the media
Police said that although they don’t believe the mother of three children, aged between seven and 12, was met with foul play, but they had not ruled it out.
‘It’s all very much dependent on the circumstances. We are looking at either a missing person or foul play,’ Inspector Seel said.
‘We are not discounting… that she may have gone down to the beach and something has happened down there.’
Inspector Seel said whether her body could be found depended on what happened to her ‘and whether she’s disoriented, lost or injured’.
‘She could have gone for a run and injured herself, she could have become disorientated and lost, there could be suspicious circumstances,’ he said of Ms Curry, who is an avid runner and competed in marathons.
The search on Wednesday focused on both inland and coastal areas and police divers combed the ocean for a body, Insp. Seel said.
Mr Curry and the couple’s three children, all aged between seven and 12, have now returned to their family home (pictured) at Surrey Hills, in Melbourne’s inner-eastern suburbs
Mrs Curry’s family home in Surrey Hills in Melbourne’s inner eastern suburbs (pictured)
Inspector Seel said her husband David Curry, and their children, were ‘distressed and worried’ about her fate.
‘They don’t know what’s happened and we can’t give them the answers at the moment, which is sad,’ he said.
Her husband David Curry broke his silence on Tuesday morning pleading with the public to phone police if they had seen his wife.
‘I, my kids, we just want her to come home,’ he said, before speaking directly to his wife in the hope she was still alive.
The labrador, pictured, which went missing at the same time as Ms Curry has been found
‘Elisa, if you are out there, can you please contact us.’
Police also increased the search area on Tuesday – hoping to find the missing woman.
Anyone with information about Ms Curry’s disappearance is urged to call Crime Stoppers.
Investigators believe Ms Curry may have gone for a run on Aireys St and become disorientated