Photos may solve 50 year mystery

The wife of a man who disappeared near Rotorua more than 50 years ago hopes new information may lead to a breakthrough in the case so she can get closure before she dies.
Inland Revenue inquiry officer Pat Fisk was 37 when he disappeared in 1956 while on a routine assignment to the Murupara area.
The mystery of his disappearance has never been solved, and his body has never been found.
Pat's wife Maureen Thomas hopes newly found aerial photographs will provide new evidence, and inspire someone to come forward.
Rotorua police Detective Sergeant John Wilson said the case was an ongoing investigation which police were still taking seriously.
He said any new information they received was followed up and he was happy to investigate any credible information.
The last fresh information they received was following an episode of The Missing last year, which featured a segment on the Fisk case.
Mr Wilson did an indepth follow-up with witnesses after the show but police had not come to any conclusions about the case.
The newly found images, sourced from New Zealand Aerial Mapping, show a shot of the Pekepeke Quarry, where Pat was last seen. The pictures were taken just four months after his disappearance.
Daughter Caroline Fisk believed the photos would allow police to check the validity of witness statements, even after all this time.
The images show buildings in the area, and Caroline believes they will help reveal the visibility of landmarks from certain points in the area. This could prove if a witness was lying or telling the truth about what they saw from a certain spot.
If new information comes to light, the family are prepared to pay for ground-penetrating radar to search areas of the quarry to look for Pat's body.
An aerial shot of the Te Whaiti area shows areas where Pat's body could have been hidden - but also shows what a huge task it would be to find it.
Mrs Thomas said she hoped someone with knowledge of Pat's disappearance might want to clear their conscience before they died, or might have made a deathbed confession.
"Somebody must have known what did happen. After all this time, maybe they think it's safe to come forward."
But the 86-year-old knows that the odds of finding the truth, 54 years later, are slim.
"I think it's not very likely that we will find what happened, but we want to keep on trying."
The Whangaparaoa woman said she would never give up on finding the truth about what happened to Pat.
"It's something I've never been able to stop thinking about."
Mrs Thomas, who remarried many years after her first husband's disappearance, has always believed that Pat was murdered. "The whole family and I feel sure that he met with foul play because of the work he was doing.
"I feel [the truth] would validate Pat. At the time, the speculation of what happened was so awful. We know he didn't leave us. Pat was a lovely man, and a good father and husband."
Pat's youngest daughter Trisha Fisk never met her father - her mother was three-months pregnant with her when he disappeared.
Trisha, one of Pat's five children, hopes the truth comes out before it is too late.
"Before mum dies, we would like to find him and get closure for her.
"Everyone has got on with their lives, but it's always been there. It's come up more and more as she's got older."