Have you seen Theres'a Urlich, above, who has been missing for two months? If so ring Acting Sergeant Elton Braithwaite at Kaitaia police station on 09 408 6500. Photo / Supplied
Have you seen Theres'a Urlich, above, who has been missing for two months? If so ring Acting Sergeant Elton Braithwaite at Kaitaia police station on 09 408 6500. Photo / Supplied
Cheryl Rush has all but lost hope that her cousin, 45-year-old Kaitaia woman Theres'a Urlich, will be found alive after more than two months since she was last seen.
According to police, Urlich, who lives in Kaitaia, was last seen hitching south from Awanui on February 4, but Rush saidshe had arrived at her home in Kaeo that day.
She had a shower, changed her clothes, had something to eat and left, heading south. That was the last her family saw or heard of her.
It was not like her not to keep in regular contact, she added, and she lived on her benefit week by week, so failing to draw money from her bank account would be a very bad sign.
"I think she's dead," Mrs Rush said. "I think she got into the wrong car."
She had been told that a woman's body had been found in the Ahipara gumfields, but doubted that was true. The police confirmed there had been no such find.
Acting Senior Sergeant Sarah Wihongi said last month that police had completed the usual missing person checks, looked for Urlich in and around Kaitaia, and called for sightings via the Northland Police Facebook page.
That had sparked plenty of concerns about her welfare, but produced no concrete information.
