About me...........

My name is Nicole and I have been running the Register for almost three years.

I'm not an Investigator, I'm not a Journalist, I'm not affiliated with any law enforcement organisation, I don't work for anyone at all.

I am just an ordinary person like you. I truly care about the missing. I would encourage you to care about them too, to read the stories and look at  the photos and try to recall if you have seen any of these people.

Please note I DO NOT investigate any missing persons cases at all. I am neither trained nor licensed to do that. My role is provide information through these pages, and support to the friends and families.

 

I am a holder of a Blue Card issued by the Commission for Young People meaning I am authorized by the Australian Government to work with Children. I had a Police check on my background in order to obtain the card so you can be assured I am a person of integrity & someone you can trust. All information given to me will be passed on to the appropriate department, but if you don't wish to return to your family then NO ONE will force you to. If you have information about a missing person but you don't want to talk to the Police directly I can do that for you.

 

I was once contacted by a Victorian Police Officer, advising me I was causing distress to families who have lost loved ones whose details are still on my website. This was extremely upsetting to me, as it's the exact opposite of what I am trying to achieve with my website. I work very hard, in a 100% voluntary capacity, to reunite familes and all of the families I have spoken to are very supportive of the work I do.


The problem arises because some Police departments refuse to update me on the status of Missing Persons. I constantly request updates from them, and I am either refused or more frequently ignored. I do not want any personal details about the person AT ALL. I am simply asking if their case is still open - if they are still missing - or if they have been located. I can't understand why that basic information is being denied to me, and to YOU when the initial missing persons case was made public by the police in the first place.


When I find out that a person is located, I remove those details from the website as soon as possible so I don't cause further distress to those families. However, I obviously can't remove the details if I don't have the information! It was suggested that I should not have the website at all. This is also upsetting to me, because I know from all the feedback I receive from the families of the missing that what I am doing here is worthwhile. The State that made that suggestion does not have a Missing Persons website AT ALL. The NMPU website does an outstanding job, but it is often months and years before a case is added to that site. The families of the recently missing deserve better than that, their loved ones need to be searched for as soon as they go missing and all I do here is transfer information to a wider audience, and provide those familes an opportunity to make a public appeal, both to the Missing Person themself and also to the public for help in finding them.

If you have a family member who was missing but is now located, PLEASE let me know and I will remove them from the website. As I said, I ask the Police constantly for this information but at the moment only some of the various States are letting me know when someone is located. It causes me personal pain to think I might be causing families further distress, and I will do everything in my power to avoid that. My priority is reuniting families and bringing peace to you.


I wrote to the Victorian Police Commissioner requesting access to information about located and still missing persons. After several months I received their reply, and unfortunately they are refusing to allow me any access whatsoever to information about current and closed missing persons files. I repeat, if I have information on the site that is out of date then I have gone to the highest level of Police to try and prevent that happening, and been refused.

 

Many years ago when I was a teenager I corresponded with the late Anne Marie Mykyta, mother of Juliet Mykyta who was one of the girls murdered in Truro, South Australia in the late 1970's. Anne Marie said the worst part was the "not knowing" what had happened to her beautiful daughter. If I can help one family by finding out where their loved one is, then I'll have done a good thing. This site is dedicated to Juliet Mykyta, (below, left) may you never be forgotten.

                              

Also dedicated to Norah, Ellen and Michael Murphy (above right), who were brutally murdered near Gatton in 1898. Their killer was never found. Somebody, somewhere always knows something.