Sam SEGAL
Sam SEGAL
NSW Police January 28 2022
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Mountains.
Samuel Segal, 29, was reported missing to police on January 23. He was seen on CCTV footage in Glenbrook on Saturday January 15.
Police and family hold concerns for his welfare. Following investigations, his vehicle - a grey 2021 Toyota Hilux utility- registration EQR26X - was located in the Glenbrook National Park on January 25. Inquiries suggest it has been parked there since January 15.
He is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 170cm and 180cm tall, of slim build with brown hair and brown eyes. He has distinctive tattoos of spider webs on his elbows/knees, a mermaid on his right forearm, a skull on his right wrist and a dragon on his left forearm.
Anyone with information about Samuel's whereabouts is urged to contact Springwood Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Missing NSW dad Samuel Segal sent a final text before he vanished.
Missing NSW dad Samuel Segal sent a final text before he vanished.
“Driving for the next hour or so if you’d like a chat.”
This was the seemingly ordinary text young dad Samuel Segal sent to his sister Ashlea on January 15, news.com.au reported.
About an hour later, she wrote back to ask if he was still driving, to which the 29-year-old responded, “Nope, but can give you a call later today!”
But Samuel never called his sister – in fact after that final text, no one has heard from him.
Samuel was last seen on CCTV cameras at the Glenbrook National Park in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
His car, a 2021 Toyota Hilux with the numberplate EQR26X, was found in the Jellybean Pool car park – but no sign of Samuel has been found.
According to a statement from NSW Police, Samuel was reported missing on 23 January with officers “commencing an investigation into his whereabouts”.
Police searched the area where Samuel’s car was later found, but there was no sign of him.
His bank accounts nor mobile phone have been used since January 15, with Detective Chief Inspector Scott McAlpine revealing that police have ruled out any suspicious activity.
“We never give up searching for a missing person,” he said, adding that a report is being prepared for the coroner.
Disturbingly, he also revealed that this isn’t the first time someone has vanished in the area.
Meanwhile, Samuel’s sister has said that it wasn’t “out of character” for her brother to go exploring.
“Sam is a fun-loving, passionate, and caring person with the biggest heart,” Ashlea shared.
“He is my favourite person in the world and I just can’t imagine what my life might look like without him.”
She added that the family haven’t given up hope that Samuel will be found – and encouraged anyone with information to come forward.
“Samuel is described as being of Caucasian appearance, between 170cm and 180cm tall, of slim build with brown hair and brown eyes. He has distinctive tattoos of spider webs on his elbows/knees, a mermaid on his right forearm, a skull on his right wrist and a dragon on his left forearm,” police added.
“He is known to frequent the Glenbrook, Blackheath and Yellow Rock areas in the Blue Mountains.
“Anyone with information about Samuel’s whereabouts, who may have seen his vehicle, or has dashcam vision from the area, is urged to contact Springwood Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.”
Summer Woolley / 7 News
The disappearance of a young father in the Blue Mountains National Park almost three months ago has baffled investigators and those who know him best.
Arborist and keen-outdoorsman Samuel Segal, 29, was last seen on Saturday, January 15 when he was picked up on CCTV footage at Glenbrook.
Earlier that day, his sister Ashlea had texted him asking if he was free for a phone call as she was going to be alone and driving for the next hour. He replied just over an hour later, asking if she was still free, but she was with friends.
She called him that night, but he never answered. In fact, he hasn’t been seen or heard from since, and neither his bank accounts nor mobile phone have been touched.
“Everything seemed normal,” she told 7NEWS.com.au, “I didn’t suspect anything out of character”.
“Throughout that week I tried to reach out to him again but couldn’t get through. By the next weekend, I was quite worried because he hadn’t gotten back to me at all and then we found out he didn’t turn up to work, and that’s when we really became concerned.”
Ashlea filed a missing persons report on January 23, prompting the Blue Mountains Police Area Command to conduct extensive searches of the area to no avail.
On January 25, his grey 2021 Toyota Hilux - with NSW registration plates EQR-62X– was located in a nearby carpark, however, investigators believe it had been parked at the location since the Saturday he went missing - 10 days before it was found.
Ashlea, who has been travelling between her home in Melbourne and the Blue Mountains, described her brother as a “nature nerd”.
“If he wasn’t out exploring native birds and trees in the bush, he was at home reading about them,” she said.
“I would say it was pretty normal for him to be exploring different parts of the Blue Mountains National Park, but he wasn’t super familiar with Glenbrook itself.”
She said she has been left “distraught” over his disappearance made worse by the lack of information - but she hasn’t given up hope.
“The complicated thing is you could receive a call at any moment of the day, right? You just don’t know,” she said.
“I don’t think I’ve even processed what’s happened because I don’t know how you process it when there are no answers.”
Samuel is described as being between 170cm and 180cm tall, of a slim build with brown hair and brown eyes.
He also has a gold front tooth, and distinctive tattoos of spider webs on his elbows and knees, a mermaid on his right forearm, a skull on his right wrist and a dragon on his left forearm.
Anyone with information about Samuel’s whereabouts, who may have seen his vehicle, or has dashcam vision from the area, is urged to contact Springwood Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or online.