The family of a New Zealand woman who disappeared in Australia 30 years ago hopes an $A100,000 reward will help jog someone's memory.
Australian police have announced the reward for information relating to the disappearance and presumed murder of Linda Davie.
She was last seen when she visited her boyfriend Stephen Lavender in a Sydney hospital on 6 April 1980.
The 22-year-old failed to visit him the next day, and three days later Mr Lavender received a letter, believed to be from Linda Davie, saying she would be away until the following week.
Mr Lavender told police that this letter and her sudden absence was out of character.
He became even more worried when he was discharged from hospital on 15 April and returned to the home he shared with Linda to find all her belongings were still in the house, police say.
Ms Davie was never seen again.
Her brother, Nigel, is hoping something will come of the reward being offered.
"The fact that 30 years has passed, there might be people out there that can say things now that they probably couldn't say 30 years ago," he says.
News reports in Australia have suggested police have been investigating possible links with the head of the Mr Asia syndicate Terry Clark as well as notorious convicted murderer Ivan Milat.
However another of Ms Davie's brothers, Pete, says his sister didn't wasn't in drug circles and her travel patterns were not those of someone who was transporting drugs.
Police in the state of New South Wales say two men who drove Linda and a friend home from a nightclub the night before the day she was last seen may have information vital to the investigation.
Detective Sergeant Rob George says among the people officers would like to speak to is a witness who came forward in 1980, but who investigators have not been able to locate again.
"She provided some information relating to a sighting of a young female on a flight from Sydney to Auckland on 7 April, and she thought that that person may be Linda Davie," he says
Mr George says police would like to gather as much information as possible before an inquest to be held late this year or early next year.
Linda Davie's disappearance is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of two other women from Sydney.
A similar reward is offered for information on Marion Sandford, last seen in North Sydney in January 1980, while the disappearance of Mary Wallace in September 1983 is also being investigated.
