Ian Craig Hollis, then 16, of Minto, was last seen getting into a mystery brown car outside his girlfriend’s Minto home on the afternoon of May 19, 1986, and he has not been seen since.
In the decades since that day, his devoted family, including mum Shirley, now 71, have anxiously searched far and wide, questioned Ian’s friends and footy mates and even turned to psychics and Facebook in their quest for answers. Now 52, Mrs Dufour, [Ian's sister] of St Andrews, was heavily pregnant with her third child when Ian vanished.
“Two weeks before Ian disappeared, he was bashed in a toilet block at the community hall at Minto and he became very concerned after that. He went to stay with an aunt in Blackett,’’ she said.
In 2013, the NSW Deputy State Coroner Paul MacMahon ruled Ian had died of unknown circumstances on or about May 19, 1986.
“As to the place of death and the cause and manner the evidence available does not enable me to make a finding,’’ the coroner’s report said.
Mrs Dufour said she was speaking out during Missing Person’s Week because the worst thing was not knowing what had happened to Ian, who would now be 49.
MEDIA:What really happened to Ian Hollis in May of 1986? He disappeared from Minto, Sydney NSW #Australia never to be seen again!
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