A car belonging to Yvonne Whear, a 73-year-old woman who has been missing since February, was discovered in northern New South Wales nearly seven months after she last appeared on camera. The vehicle, a gold Ford Escape wagon, was found in the Rous River in Dulguigan on Saturday, 12 September, after a tip-off led police divers to the location. The car was located a short distance from Whear’s home in the small rural area of Dungay. Police confirmed that the vehicle underwent a forensic investigation, and its mechanical condition is also being examined. Along with the car, several personal items believed to belong to Yvonne were recovered. However, police stated that Yvonne herself was not found with the vehicle and remains missing. Yvonne was last seen on a CCTV camera on 19 February at a Shell service station in Murwillumbah, where she purchased orange juice and added $50 to her phone credit. She then drove through cane fields to her small hobby farm in Dungay, where she had lived for 23 years. She was known for caring for a collection of animals on the property. At the time of her disappearance, she was involved in a dispute over the lease on her farm. Later that evening, a member of the public reported seeing her car parked on Dungay Creek Road, less than a kilometer from her home. The vehicle was parked in the dark without its lights on. Yvonne’s daughter, Gillian Hallac, said her mother never drove at night if she could avoid it. Hallac noted that Yvonne’s boots and hat, which she had been wearing in the CCTV footage, were still in her house. There was food in the slow cooker, her usual shoes were at the door, and her clothes were neatly folded on her bed for the next day. Hallac emphasized that her mother would never leave her animals, even for one night. Yvonne’s phone last pinged at 10 am the following morning from a tower that placed her phone in the area where her car was found on Saturday. Hallac said she remained in constant communication with her mother and saw no signs that anything was wrong. Yvonne did not suffer from depression, was not on medication, and had no known mental health issues. "She’s the type of person who would let you know if she was unhappy," Hallac told The Guardian. Detective Acting Inspector Chris Elliott, crime manager for the Tweed-Byron district, said there was no evidence to suggest Yvonne would voluntarily disappear. In August, Hallac told The Guardian she believed someone may have taken her mother and hidden her car, based on the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.