'Why aren't you here with me': Wife's emotional appeal to find missing husband
The wife of a missing Victorian man has made an emotional appeal for help to find him.
Sadly, John Forster, from Diamond Creek, is just one of the thousands of Australians who disappear every year, highlighted in a moving new campaign.
It’s day 271 since his wife Christine Forster’s husband disappeared.
“You ask yourself every single day, ‘why aren’t you here with me?'” Ms Forster said.
Mr Forster, a La Trobe University professor, was last seen at their Diamond Creek home last October.
The scientist’s car was found hours later at Sugarloaf Reservoir – somewhere he hadn’t been for 15 years.
Despite a large-scale search, no trace was found of the father of two teenage sons.
“As a family we have to create new memories. I don’t want all our lives to be defined by that day because he was a lot more to everyone,” Ms Forster said.
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“As human beings, we need to know the why, the how, to actually move forward and they just don’t have any of those answers,” National Missing Persons Co-ordination Centre’s Trish Halligan said.
Staggering statistics reveal more than 38,000 people are reported missing in Australia each year.
About half are aged 13 to 17. Almost all are found within a week but the fate of 2600 remains a mystery.
“The police are relentless in their search for missing people,” Ms Halligan reassured.
Ms Forster feels her life is in a torturous limbo. She can’t plan for the future and is battling for access to her husband’s superannuation.
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The family just needs someone who saw him that day to call police.
“Where there’s love, there’s hope,” the defiant wife said.
