Lisa Ann MOY

NSW Police Appeal For Information About Missing 48-Year-Old Woman: Bankstown
15 April 2005

Bankstown Police are appealing for information to locate a missing 48-year-old woman. Lisa Moy was reported missing to Bankstown Police on 3 April by her boyfriend.

Bankstown Detectives, who are leading the investigation, have exhausted all possible lines of inquiry in the search for the sex worker. Police have canvassed areas Miss Moy was known to frequent and people she associated with. Investigators now hold grave fears for her safety as it is extremely out of character for Miss Moy to go without contacting her family and friends for so long. Miss Moy, who is the mother of two adult children, was last seen at a service station at the corner of Stacey Street and Canterbury Road between 1-2am on 3 April. She was wearing knee high black boots and a short black skirt. Her acquaintances were unable to recall what sort of top she was wearing on the night she was last seen. Miss Moy is of skinny build, 175cm tall, with brown hair and green/hazel eyes.

Anyone with information on Miss Moys whereabouts or who might have seen her since 3 April should contact Bankstown Police on 9783 2199 or CrimeStoppers on 1800 333 000.


Search for missing woman - South Nowra
8/08/06

NSW Police will conduct a search of bushland today for a woman believed missing from Bankstown.

At 8am, police began the large scale search as part of Strike Force Freelander, co-ordinated by police from Bankstown Local Area Command.

Police from Bankstown and Shoalhaven Local Area Commands, along with South Region Operation Support Group personnel, Shoalhaven Highway Patrol, Mounted Unit, Polair and Trail Bike Unit personnel will conduct the search.

The Bankstown woman Lisa Moy, believed to be in her 50s, is alleged to have disappeared from Canterbury Road, Bansktown on 3 April, 2005.

Items believed to have belonged to the woman were later discovered by police on Parma Road, Nowra.

Police are urging anyone with information about the whereabouts of the missing person to contact Bankstown Police on 02 9783-2199 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Hunt for missing woman after personal items found
Les Kennedy - SMH
August 9, 2006

A BUSH back road to the HMAS Albatross air base on the South Coast is the focus of an intense search that police hope will provide new clues to the disappearance of a Sydney prostitute.

Personal items belonging to Lisa Ann Moy, who was 48 when she disappeared a year ago, were recently found by a man jogging along Parma Road, a dirt and bitumen track linking the Princes Highway to Braidwood Road to the rear of the naval base at South Nowra.

Almost 100 searchers, including police on horseback and trail bikes, local State Emergency Service and Rural Fire Brigade volunteers, Volunteer Rescue Association personnel and local riding clubs began searching a 200-hectare area of thick bush running along the road on Monday.

The search, which involved a police helicopter and is expected to continue today, is being co-ordinated by Bankstown police investigating the disappearance of Ms Moy, a mother of two adult children.

At the search command post at South Nowra yesterday, Detective Sergeant Tony Karras from Bankstown said that for investigative reasons police could not reveal what items had been found, or exactly when.

However, he said that police dogs trained in locating decomposing human remains have been deployed in the search operation.

Detective Sergeant Karras said Ms Moy, who lived in a Punchbowl unit, was a full-time street prostitute who worked at night in a light industrial area near the intersection of Canterbury Road and Fairford Road.

Because of trouble with roadside clients in past years, women engaging in street prostitution at that location kept watch on other women working the same area, he said.

"She was last seen about 3am on April 3 last year by another worker on the opposite side of the intersection who went off with a client. When she returned her friend was gone," Detective Sergeant Karras said.

He said prostitutes working that strip kept a change of clothes hidden nearby, and when this was located later with a number of other effects, concerns for Ms Moy's safety were raised.

Detective Sergeant Karras said no one had come forward to date to say if they saw Ms Moy later that morning or what type of vehicle she may have got into. When last seen alive she was wearing a black short skirt, white top and fishnet stockings with high heels.

Sex worker find sparks murder fears
August 08, 2006 12:00 - Daily Telegraph

A MISSING Sydney sex worker's possessions have been found in bushland on the New South Wales south coast today.

Dozens of police today searched an area off Parma Road, south of Nowra, where they believe Lisa Moy may have been murdered.
The 52-year-old was last seen on Canterbury Road, Bankstown, in Sydney's south-west, on April 3 last year.

Network Ten reported today that Ms Moy was a sex worker who had worked in the area, and that NSW police had interviewed a client she was with about 2am (AEST) on the day she disappeared.

Detectives would not reveal what items were found in the bush, but said they feared the prostitute had been murdered and her body dumped.

"She went missing on April 3, 2005, and hasn't been heard of since," Detective Sergeant Tony Karras said today.

"Nothing has been touched – no bank records or anything has been touched since then."

About 70 police and SES officers combed the bushland without success today, hoping to find clues to Ms Moy's disappearance.

Police ask anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.


Search resumes for missing sex worker

Wednesday, August 9, 2006. 8:01am (AEST) - ABC

A search will resume this morning on the south coast of New South Wales for clues to the whereabouts of a missing Sydney sex worker.

Over 60 police and emergency services workers have been searching bushland south of Nowra over the past two days.

The search was prompted by the discovery of some personal belongings of 51-year-old Lisa Moy, who has been missing from Bankstown since April last year.

Search coordinator Sergeant Stephen Heggarty from Nowra police says it is a massive operation.

"We're searching probably a couple of hundred hectares, which is one of the largest searches we've done in this area, we've used probably up to over 100 volunteers over the last couple of days, and we're searching the west Nowra area, which incorporates from Yerriyong Road all the way down towards Albatross Road as well," he said.