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Mayes,Wendy September 15, 1961; Wellington New Zealand 16 years old
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Cororner revisits 1961 missing girl case
11:48AM Monday January 28, 2008

Wellington coroner Garry Evans plans to revisit the mystery disappearance of an attractive teenager nearly half a century ago.

Mr Evans' office confirmed today an inquest into the baffling case of 16-year-old Wendy Mayes would be held in the next few months but no date has been set.

Wendy Mayes answered an advertisement in a Wellington newspaper on September 15, 1961 for a photographer's model and an interview was arranged for three days later on September 18.

At 7.30am that morning Ms Mayes left her home for work in the city - the last time her parents saw her alive.

At 5pm that day she met in a city coffee bar a man later identified as 30-year-old John Frederick Maltby.

After a brief interview she and Maltby drove off in his car.

When their daughter did not return home that night, her parents reported her disappearance to police.

Investigations led to Maltby but there was insufficient evidence to hold him and he was released.

However, he was kept under 24-hour observation.


Three days after Ms Mayes' disappearance Maltby was seen running into scrub near his home.

Police searched the area but could not find him.

On September 24 two fishermen found his body washed ashore at Island Bay.

Miss Mayes' body was never found.
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The Disappearance of Wendy Mayes
On Friday, 15 September 1961, Wendy Catherine Mayes, an attractive 16-year-old girl, answered an advertisement in a Wellington newspaper for a photographer's model, and an interview was arranged. At 7.30 a.m. the following Monday morning she left home for work in the city. This was the last time her parents saw her. At 5 p.m. on Monday she met in a city coffee bar a man who was later identified as John Frederick Maltby, aged 30. After a brief interview she and Maltby drove off in his car. When their daughter did not return home on Monday night, her parents reported her disappearance to the police. Investigations led to Maltby, but there was insufficient evidence to hold him. Arrangements were then made to search the scrub behind Maltby's house and a 24-hour watch was set. Early in the morning of Thursday, 21 September, Maltby was seen to run into the scrub and, although the area was searched, no sign of the man was found. The police extended the scope of the search and large patrols combed the beaches and hills in the Wellington and Hutt Valley districts. On Sunday, 24 September, two fishermen found Maltby's body, which had been washed ashore at Island Bay. The fate of Wendy Mayes remains a mystery.

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Police search for Wendy Mayes, 1961
In the past, police conducted some searches without volunteer help. These were known as Class I searches. One example was the hunt for 16-year-old Wendy Mayes, who went missing in Wellington in September 1961. She had answered an advertisement by John Maltby for a photographer’s model, and did not return from an interview with him. Maltby was questioned by police, and later his body was found washed up on the beach at Island Bay. Wendy Mayes was never found, despite a concentrated search by police. Now police-only searches have been replaced by Class II searches, which involve both police and volunteers.

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Subject Models (Persons) -- New -- Zealand Disappeared persons -- New -- Zealand
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ROSEMARY MCLEOD: Shame about Wendy
Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 03 February 2008

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AdvertisementPoor Wendy Mayes. Not many people may remember her name now, but it once dominated the news.


Her story was a shadow over my childhood. For Wellington, and the country, it must have contributed to a general unease, a threatened sense of security. We didn't have many murders then. It was astounding that a young woman could vanish.

A photograph of men searching for the 16-year-old's body, reprinted last week, was an image I felt I could recognise immediately for what it was, even after all this time. Hers was the biggest manhunt ever held in the region, with hundreds of police and volunteers searching for weeks. Even children couldn't help being saturated in the alarming story.

Wendy Mayes was never found. The 30-year-old man suspected of killing her washed up, drowned, at Island Bay, never to tell his story. The Wellington coroner confirmed last week that he plans to hold an inquest into the 1961 death of the teenager since somehow, in the intervening years, that formality has been overlooked. I can't, of course, really say she was murdered because there was never an official end to the case, but I don't doubt she was.

It seems incredible now that a young woman could be naive enough to respond to a newspaper advertisement for a young model for calendar work, an ad which should have raised loud alarm bells, but those were more innocent times. Wendy Mayes went with a girlfriend to meet the so-called photographer the first time, then met him again, alone, the last time she was seen alive, whisked off in his black Wolseley car. Her parents reported her missing that night. I wonder if they knew what she was up to.

Her photograph tells you a lot about 1961. True to fashion dictates of the period, the smiling Wendy Mayes could be twice her age. Her hair seems to have been set on rollers and stiffly hair-sprayed, she wears rather a lot of eye makeup, and around her neck is a multiple strand of beads that make her look as if she's impersonating her mother. She went missing in a tan coat with a small fur collar, a matching skirt, a white blouse, and either flat tan shoes or blue suede high heels. I'd be surprised if she wasn't carrying a handbag, and if her mother hadn't urged her to wear gloves. Underneath this ensemble I'd expect her to have been wearing a white cotton bra, white lace-trimmed nylon underpants, and a suspender belt to hold up the flesh-toned stockings no young office girl could be seen without. She may even have worn easies, though she didn't need them a soft variation on the corset, armour against male attention. She was outfitted, in short, like I would have expected to be in a few years' time. Youth culture hadn't really taken off in 1961, and fashion, in hindsight, was grim. The famous Mazengarb Report was published in 1954. It described youth culture in the Hutt Valley, where Wendy Mayes lived, in thunderstruck tones. They had sex, the startled lawyer discovered in what became a howling success as a trembling adult read. It makes for hilarious reading now and I am the daughter of its author, according to a delightful lie that's made it to the internet.

There was no chance of Wendy Mayes making it into that sordid world of bodgies and widgies, I should think, despite living in the Hutt. She lived at home, working in Wellington as a typist, a respectable job for a respectable girl. Those meetings with the "photographer" must have been a daring flutter in a predictable life, and they were her undoing.

Crimes like this have an effect on girls and young women. They're like scary fairy stories that warn of the world's weirdness, and the path you'll have to cut through it. Words like "rape" and "hanging" floated in adult conversations over our heads as bad things, but what happened to Wendy Mayes was more real and immediate. We would not really be free. We could see that. Men would have to be watched.

Wendy Mayes vanished, and her name with her. She would never hear what came next The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones music that came to save us from the grind of parental expectations.

She never wore a mini skirt or white lipstick, like young girls soon would, and it seems sadly fitting that in her studio portrait she looks so strangely old.

The country was stunned, back then, by the death of one young girl on the brink of her adult life, but things are different now. It happens every other week. The novelty's gone out of it.



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Wendy Mayes' boyfriend speaks out after 47 years
By Rosemary McLeod - Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 10 February 2008

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AdvertisementThe disappearance of Wendy Mayes in 1961 remains one of this country's unsolved mysteries. The 16-year-old answered a newspaper advertisement for a photographic model, met a man identified later as 30-year-old John Maltby, drove off with him in his car, and was never seen again. Despite a massive search, her body was never found. Nine days after she disappeared, Maltby's body washed ashore at Island Bay. He was not a real photographer. There was never an inquest into her death, but Wellington coroner Garry Evans now intends to hold one. The news has prompted Wendy's boyfriend at the time, Kenn Morrissey, to speak about the case after 47 years of silence.


It's an eternal story. Boy meets girl: he older, tough, street-savvy; she young, pretty, gentle, and maybe a little naive. She looks up to him; he feels protective; the attraction is swift.

The story usually ends in familiar ways: infidelity, tears, marriage, happiness, dull compromise or a drifting away. But this ended differently with a vanishing.

There can be no closure in real stories in which people play only a helpless part. That's why Kenn Morrissey, now 66, has waited 47 years to hear what really happened to his girlfriend, Wendy Mayes, on the night of September 15, 1961.

It was the year when dashing young President John Kennedy was elected in America, and when Patsy Cline released her great torch song, I Fall to Pieces. Pubs here closed at six o'clock, and teenage girls dressed up with high hair and high heels to pass for older than they were. One of them was 16-year-old typist Wendy Mayes, who Kenn thinks he probably met at a party, and who had no trouble looking old enough to get into pubs to drink a sophisticated Pimms, perhaps, or a gin and tonic.

She lived in Woburn with her parents and worked in Wellington. Her parents were strict; she was a pretty girl, with two older sisters, and her parents would only ever meet Kenn at a police station, by which time she was presumed dead.

Wendy had been going out with the merchant seaman for a few months by then. She had also kept unknown to him a young girl's diary in which there were extraordinarily frank disclosures about their romance. It was this that led the police to him as their first suspect in her disappearance.

Their backgrounds were very different. Maybe that was partly why she had kept their romance secret. He was a tough-acting teddy boy from a broken home and they might have had misgivings about him.

"I thought she was 18, and I was 20 a worldly 20," Kenn recalls. "I'd run away from home at 16; I was uncontrollable and getting into trouble. One day I said to my mother, `I'm going to get a job on a ship that goes up and down to Wellington. I'll be back tomorrow.' I don't think I came back till 18 months later.

"I'd run away from Christchurch to escape everything that was restrictive. For young people there was nothing going on in New Zealand then. I'd see the English seamen come in wearing all their smart gear and for a while I talked like a cockney myself. Those seamen were our idols, so the first chance I got, I ran away to sea."

Wendy was attracted to the young tearaway with a strong sense of style. "I was a typical seaman of the era, fighting and cocky. The teddy boy thing came from those English guys who went to sea and took the look with them. It was a kind of Edwardian dress; we wore our jackets long, down to our fingertips, and waistcoats. People who dressed like that knocked around the same pubs and parties and wore the same clothes. The English guys had Jewish tailors who would make their stylish clothes up for them back home. I used to buy them off them when they were in port and broke, what with drinking and women and one thing and another. I'd clean them up and the local teddy boys used to buy them from me. My little business, on the Maori or the Hinemoa, whichever I was working on, was known as Ken's Kash Klothing Korner.

"Wrangler jeans were what we coveted. You couldn't get them here. You had to try to get them what we called `technical', rubbing Ajax into them with a pumice stone and then hanging them out of your porthole to bleach. We wore them with a round leg, straight down, and a cuff turned up at the bottom. If we were dressed casual, we'd wear them with baseball boots, a suit coat, and a white shirt with its collar pulled up at the back. I was very much into [Elvis] Presley at the time, and guys like Billy Fury, Tommy Steele, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps and Eddie Cochran.

"We were very immaculately turned out. We had polished shoes, thin ties, sideboards, a duck's arse at the back, a quiff like Tony Curtis I had to use lots of sugar and water to get it right and a waistcoat chain that usually had a bottle-opener at the end. Our coats had a link button, for a better drape, sometimes a velvet collar, and we wore pressed white shirts with cufflinks.

"There would be better-looking guys in conventional Kiwi gear but Wendy would be attracted to us because we looked different and looked exciting, I guess.

"We'd meet when we tied up at the dock in Wellington. It was reasonably difficult during the day because of her job, but we'd have lunch, a toasted sandwich, I guess in those days, or she'd meet me after work. Sundays were my day off and I had the ship all to myself, so we'd meet then, too. But she wasn't one of those ship girls; she wouldn't even have known what that meant.

"She was just a young girl starting out and finding her way in the world. I remember her with dark, reddish hair I can't be sure of the colour now, or the colour of her eyes and very pale, alabaster skin, and she was very immaculate and stylish. I don't think she'd done much modelling, if any, but she had the potential. She was bloody beautiful actually and had a fabulous figure. She liked to laugh. She was a good dancer. She was a nice girl and I loved her."

That wasn't so easy to get through to police when Kenn was arrested on the morning of September 16 on suspicion of murder the first he heard of Wendy's disappearance. Wendy's parents had reported her missing immediately when she didn't come home and he was the first natural suspect.

Although he's not sure of details now, Kenn recalls being interrogated roughly and "unprofessionally" for a distressing three days, losing his temper with an interrogating policewoman, before they finally accepted that he was at sea when she vanished and that her disappearance was as big a shock to him as it was to everyone else: "It has worried me all my life."

He'd sailed at 2pm that day for Picton on the Tamahere; she'd met Maltby at 5pm while he was at sea and he'd had no idea she had such a plan in mind. Now it bothers him that he may have talked idly about going to Australia and that Maltby had maybe suggested Wendy might get future modelling there that would enable her to follow.

Kenn would love to be able to read his police statement of that time, in part to remind himself of what sort of a young man he was, so long ago, and in part to test his memory against what exactly did happen.

Today, in Remuera and no longer the teddy boy, he says he's one of the most law-abiding people you could meet. Still immaculately groomed, he wears a crucifix blessed by Pope Jean-Paul II and given to him by his wife. They were married for 38 years she died four years ago and Kenn retired at 65 after nearly 41 years as a flight service director with Air New Zealand.

Despite his devotion to his wife, a childhood sweetheart whom he'd gone out with before he met Wendy, the Wendy Mayes mystery has always been a presence in his life, a nagging unknown. At times he admits it's made him anxious about his own two daughters when they were young.

"My younger daughter did some photographic posing at one time and I'm not happy with it now that I'm older, but her mother and I thought it was OK at the time. There've been times when the memory has come back, with them, and things that happened.

"With Wendy, I often wonder what could have been. There were millions of girls in those days but the fact that she was removed from my life I don't know if I would have changed my ways or she would have grown out of it, or what. What if I'd married her? Maybe I wouldn't have got a job with Air New Zealand and never left. Maybe I'd have gone in for another line of work entirely and had a different life.

"I got a lot of slagging at the time, people saying I'd actually done it and got away with it, and enemies I made then using it against me. It affected me quite often, not on a daily or even a weekly basis, but just wondering what had really happened to her.

"There's a book with her case in it, but it doesn't seem correct like saying Maltby committed suicide; they don't know that; and that her body's in the hills; it was never found. Maltby was a former butcher and he had access to the Wellington Hospital furnace.

"When it happened I was sitting by the old ship at the time and Truth came down to visit me. They'd already written an article, which began something like, `A lonely seaman sits by the bollard listening to the seagulls screech. `Where's my Wendy gone?"' Kenn's reaction was unprintable. He has not talked to media since. Now, with the promise of an inquest by Wellington coroner Garry Evans, "I would like closure and the record set straight, not people saying what happened who don't really know."

An unsolved crime leaves everyone involved forever in mid-story, and Kenn has carried this one forward like a hole in his life. He grew older; Wendy didn't. You can tell that a small piece of him is still back there, the cocky rebel with the duck's tail, and Wendy's boyfriend still.



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Thursday, 11 December 2008

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COLD CASE: Forty seven years after her disappearance, a coroner has found Wendy Mayes was murdered, but said there was not enough evidence to say who killed her. The prime suspect was John Maltby, inset.

AdvertisementA 16-year-old Wellington typist who disappeared 47 years ago has officially been pronounced dead today.


Wendy Mayes has not been since September 1961 when she went to meet a man named John Maltby at a cafe about modelling work.

Police believed Maltby murdered Miss Mayes the night she disappeared but Maltby was not charged and his body was found washed up on the beach at Island Bay a week after Miss Mayes went missing, Radio New Zealand reported today.

Wellington Coroner Garry Evans found Miss Mayes died at the hands of one person but ruled there was not enough evidence to show who.

The inquest was prompted by Wellington private detective Trevor Morley, who remembered the disappearance from his time as a police cadet when all the cadets were involved in the search for her body.

Mr Morley said the case had always stuck in his mind and he decided to look for her death record last year when he was making other inquiries at the Births Deaths and Marriages register.

He found no record of her death and was concerned that it had been possible that somebody could have used her identity for fraudulent purposes, as officially she was still alive.

He raised his concerns with the coroner in a letter requesting an inquest.

Miss Mayes, who lived with her parents in Woburn and worked in Wellington as a typist, answered an advertisement in The Dominion on September 13, 1961, for a young model for calendar work - 12 sittings at two pounds and two shilling per sitting.

After answering the advertisement through a box number she went with a girlfriend to meet the photographer at the Carousel coffee bar in Tory St.

She met him again at the coffee bar at 5pm on September 18 and was last seen leaving about 15 minutes later in the photographer's black Wolseley car.

Police began inquiries when her parents reported her missing that night.

The prime suspect was 30-year-old Englishman Maltby, who had placed the advertisement under a false name.

Police questioned Maltby before releasing him. They did not have enough evidence to hold him, but kept him and his Edinburgh Tce, Island Bay home, under surveillance.

Three days after Ms Mayes' disappeared, Maltby ran off into the gorse-covered hills near his home.

Police lost track of him. A few days later fishermen found his body washed ashore at Island Bay.

Mr Morley said it did not seem right that an inquest had determined the cause of Maltby's death when Miss Mayes' family had had to wait so long for answers.

Her disappearance sparked what was described at the time as the biggest search ever mounted in Wellington. Hundreds of police and volunteers searched the region for weeks. They covered much of Wellington's coastline as far north as the Kapiti Coast. They also checked rubbish tips, parks, tracks and roadsides but no trace of Miss Mayes was ever found.

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Forty seven years after she disappeared, an inquest is being held for missing Wellington teenager Wendy Mayes.


The 16-year-old vanished in 1961 after meeting with a man who had placed a newspaper advertisement for a photography model.


Author Scott Bainbridge has written a book about the case.


He says police suspected local man John Maltby and kept him under surveillance.


He managed to evade them and soon after his body was found at Island Bay.


Bainbridge says with Maltby dead, police were left with the mystery of where Mayes may have been buried.


The inquest is being held on Thursday.
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Teenager declared dead in 1961 cold case
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The inquest into the disappearance of Wellington teenager Wendy Mayes has declared her legally dead.


She vanished in 1961 after meeting with a man who had placed a newspaper ad for a photography model.


Coroner Garry Evans says it's clear the 16-year-old died as the result of injuries sustained at the hands of another, but the manner in which she died and whose hands are unknown.


Miss Mayes' body has never been found.


Private Investigator Trevor Morley told the court Miss Mayes' family wanted her legally declared dead. He says at the time there was suspicion that local man John Maltby had killed her, but there is not evidence to back that up and nothing has changed.

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Coroner rules that girl missing since 1961 was victim of foul play

Murdered teen Wendy Mayes
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 6:02p.m.


A Wellington coroner has ruled that a teenage girl was the victim of foul play 47 years after it happened.

Sixteen-year-old Wendy Mayes wanted to be a calendar model, so in September 1961 she answered an ad in a Wellington newspaper.

On her second meeting with the man claiming to be a photographer, she went missing and was never seen again.

Police believe the man who posed as the photographer, John Maltby, was her killer. However there was not enough evidence and Maltby committed suicide shortly before being interviewed.

The teenager's disappearance made headline news nationwide but she was never declared dead.

A private investigator, who was a police cadet when she went missing, had the case reopened after finding there had never been a coronial inquest.

"I considered that just a little unusual, given that if a person isn't heard from for seven years an inquest can be held to formally declare them dead," Private Investigator Trevor Morley said.

The coroner ruled that Miss Mayes was murdered, but he said there is not enough evidence to say at whose hands. So the question of whether John Maltby is guilty of her murder may never be answered.

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Mayes 47-year-old cold case finally closed
7:23PM Thursday Dec 11, 2008

A 16-year-old Wellington typist who disappeared 47 years ago has officially been pronounced dead today.

Wendy Mayes has not been since September 1961 when she went to meet a man named John Maltby at a cafe about modelling work.

Police believed Maltby murdered Miss Mayes the night she disappeared but Maltby was not charged and his body was found washed up on the beach at Island Bay a week after Miss Mayes went missing, Radio New Zealand reported today.

An inquest into her death by Wellington Coroner Garry Evans was held at the request of a private investigator acting on behalf of her family.

Mr Evans found Miss Mayes died at the hands of one person but ruled there was not enough evidence to show who.

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Vanished without a trace
REBECCA THOMSON
Last updated 05:00 17/02/2011

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Search party: Police officers advance up the hills above Melrose Tce in a concentrated search for Wendy Mayes, 1961.
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Some cases of Wellingtonians who have gone missing have baffled police for decades.

Most missing people are found within a couple of days, but a few have remained unsolved despite massive police hunts.

Five Wellingtonians are listed on the Missing Persons section of the Police website. They are Lionel Cotter, missing since October 2001; Kaye Stewart, missing since June 2005; Roger Alexander missing since May 2005, Do Trieu, missing since August 2008 and Robert Logan, missing since August 2010.

In December the police received information suggesting Logan was in the Auckland area.

There have been no new leads in the other four cases, according to information released by the police under the Official Information Act.

Detective Sergeant Linda Simpson of the Missing Persons Unit said all cases were reviewed at three days, 14 days, one month, three months and a year.

"A message is automatically sent to the officer in charge [of the case] in the relevant district, asking them to update the file," she said.

Any new information would be forwarded to the the police officer in charge of the case, she said.

"Missing persons cases remain open until such time as a person is located or their remains are located or identified. Historic missing persons cases are reviewed annually."

Police classify those who have been missing for more than a year as "long-term" cases.

Wellington's oldest missing persons case dates back to 1941, when nine-year-old Ronald Alfred Oldham was last seen at the Miramar Wharf on the evening of February 17.

Police believed he fell from the wharf and drowned. In June 2009 Wellington Coroner Garry Evans declared the boy dead.

Each year, police receive more than 8000 reports nationwide relating to missing persons. There are more than 350 long-term missing persons in New Zealand,

In 2009, 659 people were reported missing in Wellington. All but one of them was located in the same year.

Ms Simpson said 73 per cent were located within three days, 21 per cent within two weeks, 4 per cent within a month and 2 per cent within three months.

Police must have authority from next-of-kin to publish information on the Missing Persons website.

"Police do not provide a family tracing service for locating family and friends who have not kept in contact," she said.

"Contact for agencies offering this service are found provided on the [police] website."
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ...

Some Missing Persons cases are so baffling they capture public attention and are referred to for years. Here are five: -

Jean Marie Martin

Jean Marie Martin's disappearance in 1945 resulted in one of the largest searches in police history.

On April 8, 1945, the 23-year-old laboratory technician and part-time student went for a walk in Otari-Wilton bush. She was accompanied by a male friend who said later that they parted ways in the bush.

Police carried out a full-scale search, from Makara Beach to Ohariu Valley.

The Evening Post reported that police originally believed the missing girl might have died as a result of exposure.

However, the investigation moved to Auckland some weeks later, after a woman matching Martin's description was seen at three Ponsonby Rd shops. She turned out not to be Martin.

There were some suggestions Martin suffered from memory loss or a mental breakdown.

Wendy Mayes

Sixteen-year-old Wendy Catherine Mayes disappeared in September 1961 after answering a newspaper advert for a photographer's model.

Police know that she met a man in a coffee bar on September 18 and the two drove away in his car. He was later identified as John Frederick Maltby, 30.

Inquiries led to Maltby, but there was insufficient evidence to hold him. Police searched the scrub behind Maltby's house and set up a 24-hour watch on his place.

On September 21, Maltby was seen running into the scrub. The area was searched, but there was no sign of him.

Maltby's body was washed ashore at Island Bay. Mayes was never found. In 2008 the coroner pronounced her dead and the case was closed.

Roger David Alexander

Roger Alexander left his Paraparaumu home to travel to Wellington by train on May 1, 2005.

The 70-year-old often travelled to Wellington to photograph scenery and was carrying a Exakta Varex 11A 1956-61 camera in a brown leather case.

Alexander was last spotted heading towards hills behind Valley Rd in Paraparaumu.

He was wearing the clothes he usually wore during visits to the city: a red-blue checked shirt, light navy blue jersey, black track pants with a white strip down the leg, a black beanie, and heavy older-style leather tramping boots painted green.

Alexander suffered from dementia, had hearing difficulties and no known access to a bank account.

Police carried out an extensive search in the days after Alexander went missing, but the only thing ever found was his beanie.

Kapiti Police lodged another public appeal in May 2005, but to no avail.

Kaye Stewart

Kaye Stewart, 62, went missing in June 2005 while walking in Rimutaka Forest Park.

The former All Black physio was last seen walking across the grass area towards the driveway near the Catchpool Visitors' Centre.

Police exhaustively sear-ched the area where Stewart went walking.

The case attracted national media attention, but no significant clues were found.

In 2008 police resorted to interviewing two psychics from the television programme Sensing Murder, but discounted the person one of the psychics named as being involved with the case.

Robert Logan

Robert Logan's white 1991 Nissan Sunny station wagon was found at the Owhiro Bay car park on August 26 last year. The last confirmed sighting of the 51-year-old lawyer was at the Kilbirnie Woolworths supermarket the day before.

Police search and rescue, divers and volunteers searched the Owhiro Bay area, but Logan has not been found.

Logan is a Labour Party member. In September Wellington Central MP Grant Robertson posted a message on the Labour Party's blog asking for anyone with information to contact the police.

In December police received information suggesting Logan was in the Auckland area. Family members found a memo written by Logan, which said: "Auckland, Thursday Friday?"

There have been no new leads.
Lauran

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