Grim discovery in search for missing grandmother after her decomposing body is found in a tank on rural NSW property
Yvonne Whear, a 73-year-old grandmother who disappeared from northern New South Wales in February, has been identified as the woman found in a livestock treatment tank on a rural property. Police are investigating her death as a homicide, after months of searching for her and her vehicle.
Whear was last seen on CCTV in Murwillumbah on 19 February, buying orange juice and adding credit to her phone before driving towards her hobby farm near Dungay. Her phone’s final signal was detected the next morning; in September, her gold Ford Escape was found submerged in the Rous River. She was involved in a long-running farm lease dispute and was due to attend a tribunal hearing, but investigators have not said whether it is connected to her death.
- Yvonne Whear’s body was identified months after she went missing.
- Police are investigating her death as a homicide.
- Her car was found submerged in the Rous River in September.
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Yvonne Whear was a 73-year-old grandmother who disappeared from northern New South Wales in February. Her body has been identified after being found on a rural property in a livestock treatment tank, with police now treating her death as a homicide.
Whear was last seen on 19 February in Murwillumbah, where she had bought orange juice and topped up her phone credit before heading to her hobby farm near Dungay. Her vehicle, a gold Ford Escape, was found submerged in the Rous River in September, though her own whereabouts were unknown until the recent discovery.
At the time of her disappearance, Whear was involved in a long-running dispute over the lease of her farm and was due to attend a tribunal hearing. Investigators have not yet commented on whether this dispute is connected to her death, with the inquiry still ongoing.