Missing Melbourne mother-of-three Elisa Curry (pictured) is ‘unlikely to be alive’ if she became lost in bush land, police revealed on Thursday
Missing mother-of-three Elisa Curry chatted to a female neighbour about a ‘personal’ matter just moments before she disappeared from her $1 million holiday home, police revealed.
Ms Curry, 43, was last seen on Saturday night at her Aireys Inlet holiday house near the Great Ocean Road, south of Melbourne.
Inspector Peter Steel said the neighbour was at the house with her husband earlier in the evening but she returned alone about 10pm to speak with her.
‘The neighbour and her husband were over there, then they left and then the wife came back and spoke to her. That’s something we’re looking in to,’ he said.
‘She has made a statement (about the nature of the conversation with Mrs Curry) but that’s not something I’m going to go in to.’
The neighbour said she saw Ms Curry getting in to bed as she left – the last time anyone saw her before she vanished.
After an intensive five-day search which has yielded no sign of the missing woman, Inspector Steel said there was a very real possibility Ms Curry was dead.
‘Medical advice and expert advice is that if she’s in the bush, the likelihood of her being alive is remote,’ he said.
‘We just want to double check. We’ve done it once but there might be people we haven’t spoken to, sheds we haven’t checked. It’s just part of the search pattern.’
Mrs Curry was last seen on Saturday night at her Aireys Inlet holiday house (pictured) near the Great Ocean Road, south of Melbourne
After an intensive five-day search (pictured), which has yielded no sign of the missing woman, police Inspector Peter Steel said there was a very real possibility Mrs Curry was dead
Investigators initally believed Ms Curry may have gone for a run late on Saturday night on Aireys St and become disorientated (pictured an officer searches in bushland)
Inspector Steel said if ‘nothing was found’ by late on Thursday, the search would be scaled back.
‘It’s difficult because normally we get a direction of travel, a phone pings. We don’t know what she was wearing, we don’t know what her state of mind was… it’s different in that sense.’
‘If nothing’s found by 4pm we’ll consider scaling the search back.’
A neighbour in the quiet seaside street said it was known among friends in the community that Mrs Curry suffered depression.
‘I went into their house a couple of times and she was just really nice, really normal,’ the neighbour said.
‘Yes, she had depression.’
Inspector Seel said discussions with neighbours about her state of mind on Saturday did not yield anything useful to the investigation.
‘She was quite upbeat about the result of the Grand Final but apart from that, nothing of interest,’ he said.
Ms Curry’s husband David and their children, aged between seven and 12, were in Melbourne on Saturday watching the AFL grand final.
She exchanged several messages with him about the result of the match, but their tone and context didn’t appear to indicate she was upset or distressed.
Police said Mr Curry discovered his wife missing on Sunday morning when he and the children returned to the beach house and she was not there.
It is understood Ms Curry watched the AFL grand final with neighbours in in Aireys St, and celebrated Richmond’s win into the evening.
Inspector Steel said if ‘nothing was found’ by late on Thursday, the search (pictured) would be scaled back
The extensive search has yielded no sign of the missing woman
An officer is seen talking with Mrs Curry’s neighbour
A neighbour in the quiet seaside street said it was known among friends in the community that Mrs Curry suffered depression
It is understood Mrs Curry watched the AFL grand final with neighbours in in Aireys St, and celebrated Richmond’s win into the evening
Mrs Curry 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
It has been revealed the mother-of-three texted a Letter to the Editor to The Herald Sun just hours before she vanished expressing her support for same-sex marriage.
‘I love and respect gay people and they deserve better than this,’ Mrs Curry said in a text message to the newspaper at 2.21pm on Saturday, according to records.
‘You should know what you are voting for before you cast your vote,’ she continued.
‘Thank you John Howard for being forthright and honest in what has been a vicious campaign largely run by extremists.’
Search and rescue teams were sen on Thursday looking for Mrs Curry in nearby bushland
Police pictured searching neighbouring properties
Officers knocked on the doors of Mrs Curry’s neighbours trying to hunt for clues
A police officer climbs through dense bushland (pictured)
Investigators now believe it’s possible she left the house early on Sunday morning for her habitual run – and may have become lost
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)
Another neighbour said Ms Curry, her husband and their three children spent most weekends at the holiday house, about a 90 minute drive from their home in Melbourne.
‘The kids would come into my house and get eggs from my chooks, but they were pretty quiet – it’s a pretty quiet community,’ the neighbour said.
Police initially believed Ms Curry went missing after going on a jog with the family’s black labrador.
Police thought the labrador was with Ms 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 Ms Curry went on a run at all.
Inspector Seel said police had not ruled out foul play.
The labrador, pictured, which went missing at the same time as Ms Curry has been found
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