Sylvia
PAJUCZOK
Police
say a white van was seen parked in this spot. (NSW
Police)
Appeal for information
on missing woman -
Sylvia Pajuczok
Monday, 05 Jan 2009
05:24am
NSW Police are renewing
an appeal for
information following
the disappearance of an
Eden grandmother who has
not been seen since
Christmas Eve.
Police say 53-year-old
Sylvia Pajuczok was
visiting family at the
small rural community of
Rockton, just north of
the Victorian border,
and was last seen on
Christmas Eve by a
friend.
Her green Toyota Tarago
was found on the side of
the Monaro Highway, 10km
south of Bombala, on 27
December 2008.
Ms Pajuczok’s family is
increasingly concerned
by her disappearance as
she has now been missing
for eleven days.
Police seek public help to
locate missing woman – Monaro
Monday, 29 Dec 2008
01:58pm
NSW Police from the Monaro Local Area Command are
seeking the public’s assistance to locate a
53-year-old woman whos disappeared in the State’s
south last week.
Sylvia Pajuczok was last seen on Wednesday 24
December at a home on the Monaro Highway at Bombala.
It’s believed that Sylvia left the home in her van,
a green Toyota Tarago.
The van (pictured above) was located by police on the side of the Monaro Highway around 10km south of Bombala on
Friday 26 December.
A search in the vicinity of where the car was
located involving police and volunteers however did
not locate the woman. Today a second search was held
involving Polair and police, again with no result.
Police and family hold concerns for her welfare as
her disappearance is out of character.
She is described as being of white/European
appearance, around 157cm tall, of slim build with
grey hair just past her shoulders.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is
urged to contact Monaro Police or Crime Stoppers on
1800 333 000.
Police continue search
for missing 53-year-old
woman — Bombala
Wednesday, 14 Jan
2009 10:31am
Investigators from Strike Force Lerra are making a renewed
appeal for public
assistance in an attempt
to locate a woman who
went missing three weeks
ago in the far south of
New South Wales.
Investigators are
continuing their search
today for missing Eden
grandmother Sylvia
Pajuczok and have also
released another photo
in the hope that someone
may have seen her and
know her whereabouts.
Police, along with State
Emergency Service (SES)
volunteers, are
conducting further
searches around the
Bombala and Rockton
areas, including the
Monaro Highway and
Bombala Tip.
Along with the search
operation being
conducted today, police
envisage co-ordinating
additional searches in
the area over the next
few days.
Police have received
significant information
from members of the
public to date. However,
they are seeking further
assistance particularly
from people who may have
spent the Christmas
period in, or travelling
through, the Rockton or
Bombala areas.
The last reported
sighting of the
53-year-old was on
Christmas Eve by a
friend after visiting
family at a small rural
community at Rockton,
north of the Victorian
border.
While police continue to
investigate a number of
suspected sightings,
none have been
identified as being Ms
Pajuczok.
She is described as
being of white/European
appearance,
fair-skinned,
approximately 157cm
tall, with a thin build
and grey hair past her
shoulders.
Monaro Local Area
Commander, Acting
Superintendent Ian Davey,
said, “Fears for the
welfare of Ms Pajuczok
increase with every day
that passes and police
are seeking information
from anyone who may have
details of her
whereabouts or who saw
the green Toyota Tarago
on the side of the
Monaro Highway on
Christmas Eve.”
Members of the public
with information about
Ms Pajuczok’s
disappearance or
whereabouts are urged to
contact Crime Stoppers
on 1800 333 000.
Homicide Squad
detectives join
investigation into
grandmother’s
disappearance - Bombala
Thursday, 22 Jan
2009 02:21pm
Police from Monaro Local
Area Command assisted by
the State Crime
Command’s Homicide Squad
are continuing their
search for missing
grandmother Sylvia
Pajuczok.
Strike Force Lerra was
established to
investigate the
disappearance of Ms
Pajuczok after she went
missing on Christmas
Eve. She was last seen
at Rockton near the
Victorian border.
Ms Pajuczok’s green
Toyota Tarago was found
abandoned on the Monaro
Highway on 27 December
2008 near the
intersection of Mila
Road.
Investigators have this
week continued with
extensive ground
searches in the Rockton
area and a team of
Mounted Police. Police
Rescue Squad officers
will scour the Gulf Road
and Bondi Forest Way
areas today using all
terrain vehicles, with
the assistance of a
police cadaver dog.
Homicide Squad
Detectives are also
involved in the
investigation and have
assisted in interviewing
a number of witnesses.
Detective Inspector
Shane Box, Crime
Manager, Monaro Local
Area Command said, “Its
been nearly a month
since Sylvia’s
disappearance and as
time goes by, the
possibility that she has
met with foul play
increases.
“I continue to urge
anyone who may be able
to supply further
information regarding
Sylvia’s last known
movements to contact
police,” Detective
Inspector Box said.
“Members of the
community who may have
seen or heard something
suspicious over the
Christmas and New Year
periods are encouraged
to come forward. All
information received
will be dealt with in
the strictest
confidence.”
Anyone who can assist
investigators is urged
to contact Queanbeyan
Police Station on (02)
6298 0555 or Crime
Stoppers on 1800 333
000.
Police
to scale down missing woman
search
Posted
Mon Jan
26, 2009 12:44pm AEDT
Police say
they will wind down a search
this week for a woman who has
been missing on the New South
Wales Monaro since Christmas
Eve.
Sylvia Pajuczok, 59, from
Eden on the state's far south
coast, was last seen visiting
relatives at Rockton, south of
Bombala.
Her vehicle was found
abandoned on the Monaro Highway,
near Bombala, on Boxing Day.
Police using dogs and
State Emergency Service
volunteers searched properties
and dense forest area near
Rockton on the weekend.
Police detective Inspector
Shane Box from the Monaro area
command says the search for Ms
Pajuczok is not linked to other
alleged disappearances in the
area over the past two decades.
"It is a stand-alone
investigation," he said.
"There are a number of
rumours that we hear of course,
and in small communities the
word does get around - sometimes
it is the wrong information.
"All I can say is any
information that people wish to
give us, no matter how minute
they think it might be, it maybe
a crucial link in our
investigation."
Final
search for missing grandma
Posted
Wed Jan
28, 2009 2:09pm AEDT
Authorities
have confirmed that they have
received information indicating
that a missing New South Wales
far south coast grandmother is
dead.
Police have been searching
for Sylvia Pajuczok, 59, from
Eden, for more than a month
after she disappeared after
visiting relatives at Rockton,
in the Monaro border country.
Her van was later found
abandoned on Boxing Day near the
Monaro Highway, south of Bombala.
Detective Inspector Shane
Box says police will mount a
final search for Ms Pajuczok's
body in a national park on the
southern Monaro.
"I am not suggesting at
this stage that she has been
murdered, what I am suggesting
is that it is suspicious in its
nature, and by that I mean we
think - as investigators - it is
more than just a missing
person," he said.
"There is something a
little more suspicious, the word
'murder' is yet to be
determined.
"What has made it a
different focus is the different
information we have received and
different lines of inquiries
that I am unable to discuss."
Police believe
grandmother victim of
homicide
Thursday, 05 Feb
2009 04:25pm
Strike Force detectives
believe a missing
grandmother might be the
victim of a homicide and
are renewing their call
for information from the
public.
Monaro Local Area
Command (LAC)
established Strike Force
Lerra to investigate the
suspicious disappearance
of Sylvia Pajuczok after
she went missing on
Christmas Eve last year.
Investigators have been
joined by detectives
from the State Crime
Command’s Homicide Squad
as they continue their
inquiries.
Ms Pajuczok was last
seen at Rockton near the
Victorian border. Her
green Toyota Tarago was
found abandoned on the
Monaro Highway on
Saturday 27 December
2008 near the
intersection of Mila
Road.
Local and Homicide Squad
detectives are piecing
together Ms Pajuczok’s
last known movements,
and are continuing to
interview witnesses and
examine other evidence.
Detective Inspector
Shane Box, Monaro LAC
Crime Manager, said,
“This investigation is
being treated as a
homicide. We are now
focusing our attention
on Ms Pajuczok’s
movements on the days
immediately preceding
Christmas.
“The Monaro Highway is a
well-used main
thoroughfare and in the
lead-up to Christmas
there would have been a
number of people living
on the New South Wales –
Victorian border who
travelled on the
highway.
“I continue to urge
anyone who travelled
along the Monaro Highway
past Rockton on either
22, 23 or 24 December,
and who may have seen
the missing person or
her green Toyota Tarago,
to contact police,”
Detective Inspector Box
said.
“Members of the
community who saw any
suspicious activity or
odd vehicle movements on
the Monaro Highway on
those days prior to
Christmas are also
encouraged to come
forward. All information
received will be dealt
with in the strictest
confidence.”
Anyone who can assist
Strike Force Lerra
investigators is urged
to contact Queanbeyan
Police Station on (02)
6298 0555 or Crime
Stoppers on 1800 333
000.
Emotional appeal by family
of missing woman, feared murdered – Bombala
Tuesday, 29 Dec 2009
01:51pm
The children of missing woman, Sylvia Pajuczok, have
made an emotional, national plea for help to find
their mother on the first anniversary of her
disappearance from Bombala on the NSW south coast.
The 53-year-old mother of three and grandmother of
four vanished on Christmas Eve, 2008.
Ms Pajuczok’s green Toyota Tarago van was found
abandoned by the side of the Monaro Highway, around
10km south of Bombala, three days later.
Detectives from the Monaro Local Area Command fear
she’s been murdered.
She has not contacted anyone, her bank account has
not been accessed and personal belongings like her
glasses, clothes and mobile telephone were left
behind when she disappeared from a friend’s house.
Ms Pajuczok’s adult children, Belinda, Toni and Brad
are pleading with the public to come forward with
any information about their mother’s disappearance.
The movements of a white van, seen parked near the
home she’d been visiting at the time, could prove
crucial to the investigation.
The occupant/occupants of the van may have been
travelling from interstate at the time and
detectives want to talk to the driver to eliminate
them from the investigation.
The vehicle is described as a white van, perhaps a
Toyota HiAce and possibly a camper-style van.
Ms Pajuczok’s children describe her as a kind woman
who doted on her four grandchildren, including her
two-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter, Madison, who
can’t comprehend her grandmother’s disappearance.
Madison’s mother, Belinda Hillier, can’t bring
herself to explain to the heartbroken toddler that
her beloved “grandma’ is thought to have met with
foul play.
“She (Madison) has a song she plays for grandma, she
has a star,” Belinda said,” She looks at grandma in
the sky every night and she cries when there are
clouds because there’s no grandma.
“I tell her grandma’s missing and we can’t find
her.”
The family doesn’t want to endure another Christmas
without knowing what happened.
“Christmas…what a time,” Sylvia’s daughter, Toni
Curtis, said, “We’re sure going to remember that
every year, aren’t we?
“My daughter just graduated (from) high school,
she’s turning 18 in two weeks and she just wanted
grandma to be there, you know.”
Ms Pajuczok’s disappearance is totally out of
character and highly suspicious in nature.
“Sylvia Pajuczok did not just vanish off the face of
the earth, somebody knows what has happened to her,”
Detective Acting Inspector, Tim Pieper, said.
“Please, if you know something, contact police and
help put an end to his heart-wrenching mystery,” the
Acting Monaro Crime Manager added.
Police have released video images and photographs,
including stills of the location where the white van
was last sighted, to the media in a bid to enlist
the public’s support,
Anyone from New South Wales or interstate who can
assist the investigation is urged to contact the
Monaro Local Area Command on (02) 6298 0599 or Crime
Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
“Anonymously or not, we don’t really care,” Sylvia’s
son, Brad Taylor, said, “We don’t really care who
calls up…we just want to find out where mum is.”
Information will be treated with the utmost
confidence.
White van clue in woman's
disappearance
Posted Tue
Dec 29, 2009 2:26pm AEDT -
ABC
Detectives and family members of a woman who went
missing a year ago in southern New South Wales are
again appealing for public assistance to help find
out what happened to her.
Sylvia Pajuczok was 53 when she was last seen on
Christmas Eve in 2008.
The mother-of-three and grandmother-of-four lived in
Eden on the far south coast, but her abandoned van
was found further west on the Monaro Highway, about
10km south of Bombala.
She left her clothes, mobile phone and glasses at a
friend's house and has not touched her bank account.
Detectives fear she has been murdered.
They have released details of a white, possibly
camper-style van, that was seen parked on the Monaro
Highway near a home Ms Pajuczok had been visiting.
Police say the van's movements could prove cruical
to the investigation and detectives want to speak to
the driver.
Detective Sergeant Dave Kay, says they want to
eliminate the van from their investiagtions.
"Anyone who had a white van and they were travelling
the Monaro Highway between Bombala and Cann River on
the 24th dec 2008," he said.
"Or, if you had family who may've been travelling in
that area or anyone who owns a van, may've even lent
it to someone for a holiday or a drive we would like
to speak to them as well."
This morning Ms Pajuczok's adult children, Belinda,
Toni and Brad, released an appeal for infromation
about their mother's disappearance.
Anyone with information has urged to contact the
Monaro Local Area Command on (02) 6298 0599 or Crime
Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Police search
bush for remains of missing woman
January 6th
2010 - ABC
Police are searching
bushland in the south east of New South
Wales looking for the remains of a woman
who has been missing for more than a
year.
Sylvia Pajuczok, 53, vanished from
a friend's home at Rockton near Bombala
on Christmas Eve in 2008.
Her van was found abandoned on the
side of the Monaro Highway, south of
Bombala two days later.
The car was found to have had no
mechanical error, and the mother of
three left behind essential belongings
including her phone, clothes and reading
glasses.
Police and her family believe she
met with foul play.
Following a public appeal for
information last week, police, with the
use of cadaver dogs, are carrying out a
search of the nearby Bondi State Forest
for Ms Pajuczok's remains.
Rural Crime investigators on
horseback have also joined the search.
New search for missing
Eden grandmother
BY DAVID STOCKMAN
POLICE REPORTER -Canberra Times
The effort to find missing Eden grandmother
Sylvia Pajuczok has moved to a detailed search of
forest area near where she was last seen.
Specialist police and cadaver dogs are being used in
the search of Bondi State Forest about 20km
south-west of Bombala with police hopeful of finding
the 53-year-old's remains.
Ms Pajuczok was last seen at a friend's house
in Rockton near the NSW border on Christmas Eve
2008.
Her green Toyota Tarago was found on the
Monaro Highway on December 27 last year about 10km
south of Bombala near the intersection with Mila
Road. A number of personal items including her
mobile phone, glasses and purse were left in the
van.
Her bank accounts have not been touched since
her disappearance nor has she been in contact with
family members.
The search comes just a week after an appeal
for information in the case, with Mrs Pajuczok's
three children hoping to find answers to the
mystery.
Detective Acting Inspector Tim Pieper said
while some calls had come in following the appeal,
the search was part of a continuing effort to bring
Mrs Pajuczok's family answers.
The search began on Monday, with police
scheduled to continue working in the area today.
Detective Pieper said police had not been
impeded by the difficult terrain or recent warm
weather in their search.
Those involved in the remote area search
included rural crime investigators on horseback and
uniformed officers.
A number of items have been found, which will
be forensically examined to determine whether they
are linked with Mrs Pajuczok's disappearance.
Anyone with information should phone Crime
Stoppers on 1800333000
