FEARS for the welfare of missing pregnant woman Krystal Fraser and her child have escalated amid beliefs she may have gone underground.

Twenty-three year old Krystal, who has the mental capacity of a teenager, disappeared on Saturday, June 20, one day before she was due to give birth.

Senior Constable Jason Brady, who works in Krystal’s home town of Pyramid Hill, said that everything possible was being done to locate her.

“I’m as concerned as much as anyone.

“We’ve got an intellectually disabled woman, who is post term, with no medical assistance.

“The whole investigation raises alarm bells for me.”  Senior Constable Brady said that police and Pyramid Hill residents believed that Krystal may be scared to come forward.

He said that while it was believed that she was hiding out in the Bendigo area, other explanations for her disappearance could not be discounted.

“If anyone knows where she is we are urging them to come forward and at least let officials know she is safe,” Senior Constable Brady said.

Sue Lacey is one of many Pyramid Hill residents who has barely slept since Krystal went missing, and is among many people to have spent hours searching the streets of Bendigo for the vulnerable young woman.

Mrs Lacey is also one of more than 500 members of the FaceBook group Help us find Krystal Fraser.

“I’ve known her since she was 10 . . . I took her to the doctor in Boort when she found out that she was pregnant,” Mrs Lacey said.

“I believe that she’s gone underground now.

“And that would be killing her.

“She comes into IGA about 40 times a day, she’s the friendliest person you could ever meet.” Krystal has not used her mobile phone or accessed her bank accounts since her disappearance.

“People have asked me if she would have planned this, and been saving but she couldn’t save money.

“I don’t believe this was planned.”Krystal was sighted at Bendigo Marketplace on Sunday, June 21, and again near the Bendigo Post Office on Wednesday, June 24.

She was at Bendigo Hospital’s maternity accommodation section in Stuart Street on Saturday, June 20, when she said that she was going to go home.

She left the premises, but has not returned to the Pyramid Hill flat she lives in alone since.

Senior Constable Brady said that anyone who sees Krystal should engage in conversation with her, stay with her and ring 000 and ask for an ambulance and the police.

Any other information can be reported to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

IT’S been more than three weeks since pregnant woman Krystal Fraser went missing, but police still hope she is all right.

Ms Fraser, 24, from Pyramid Hill, has been missing since June 20.

She was due to give birth to a baby boy the next day.

Leading Senior Constable Jason Brady said Ms Fraser, who has the mental capacity of a teenager, had not used her bank accounts or her mobile phones since disappearing.

“I think she’s still alive,” he said.

“She’s relatively streetwise and I’ve just got a gut feeling.

“However, we can’t discount anything.

“If anyone knows where she is, we are urging them to come forward and at least let officials know she is safe.”

Pyramid Hill resident Sue Lacey, who is an acquaintance of Ms Fraser, said she was growing more concerned about her welfare.

POLICE have launched a national media campaign for a missing intellectually disabled woman who was due to give birth four weeks ago.

Police believe there is the chance 24-year-old Krystal Fraser is now interstate, being harboured by friends.

Yesterday marked the one-month anniversary of her disappearance.

She was last seen in the maternity accommodation section at Bendigo Hospital on June 20 about 6.30pm.

She was due to give birth to her first child, a son the family says she wanted to name Ryan, the following day.

Compounding issues for police and her family is Krystal’s intellectual impairment.

Senior Constable Jason Brady said Krystal’s bank accounts had not been touched since she vanished.

"As time goes on, and the longer things go on, you have to keep your mind open as to what might occur," he said.

Senior Constable Brady believes Krystal may have fled interstate as she had concerns the state would take her son after his birth.

Krystal’s paternal grandmother Helen Fraser spoke to The Advertiser of her worries.

IT has been seven weeks since Krystal Fraser caught a train from Bendigo to Pyramid Hill.

Heavily pregnant, she is believed to have walked to her unit in Kelly Street before heading to Albert Street about 9.30pm.

It is the last confirmed sighting police have of the 24-year-old.

Tomorrow marks 50 days since Krystal disappeared.

When she vanished she was just one day shy of her due date for a son her family says she hoped to name Ryan.

She has not used the internet, contacted family or friends, accessed bank accounts or used her mobile phone since she went missing.

Previous reports of sightings at the Bendigo Marketplace have proven inaccurate, and a three-hour ground search of Pyramid Hill involving 40 volunteers two weeks ago found nothing.

The Police Air Wing took to the skies yesterday with hopes something would be found to determine Krystal’s whereabouts, but the search yielded little.

POLICE fear that an intellectually disabled woman who went missing days before she was due to give birth has been murdered.

Pyramid Hill woman Krystal Fraser has been missing for almost four months and her disappearance is now being investigated by homicide detectives.

Ms Fraser, 24, was last seen leaving a house in Albert Street, Pyramid Hill, about 9.30pm on June 20.

Shortly before midnight, she received a call on her mobile phone from a public phone booth outside the Leitchville Post Office.

The person who made this call is the focus of police inquiries into Ms Fraser’s murder.

Homicide squad detectives and as many as 40 volunteers searched a property about 10 kilometres east of Pyramid Hill yesterday after receiving two tip-offs about the location of Ms Fraser’s body.

Homicide squad Detective Sergeant Wayne Woltsche said police appealed for anybody with information about Ms Fraser to come forward.

The father of Ms Fraser’s child is unknown, but it is believed she was expecting a boy.

“We’ve got extremely grave concerns for her and it is our belief Krystal Fraser has met with foul play and has in fact been murdered,” Detective Sergeant Woltsche said.

“Our inquiries have led us all around the area, including areas of Pyramid Hill, Gunbower, Leitchville, Cohuna and Swan Hill.

“Inquiries we have conducted to this stage have not provided us with any information or evidence of Krystal Fraser’s whereabouts.”

Detective Sergeant Woltsche said the homicide squad had become involved in Ms Fraser’s disappearance although no new evidence had been uncovered.

“What we’ve established from our investigation is that Krystal Fraser was a person of habit,” he said.

“She was very attached to her mobile phone and used it extensively, making numerous text messages, phone calls and accessing the internet via her mobile phone.

“She was also very compulsive with her money, in that she would withdraw it as soon as she was paid.

“Her bank account remains untouched. Further to that, her phone has not been used since (June 20).

“Her family have celebrated a number of birthdays, Krystal herself celebrating a birthday, her sister had a 21st last week, she’s not been heard from, she has not attempted to make contact with any family member, which is highly out of character for Krystal.”

Detective Sergeant Woltsche said police were no longer investigating the man who Ms Fraser visited in Albert Street on the night of her disappearance.