Missing mother-of-three is found after she mysteriously vanished for more than a week
- Julie Schutt went missing on May 7 from South Australia
- She was located still in SA and is receiving treatment
A Queensland mother and wife who vanished without a trace for a week while on holiday has been found ‘wandering’ and asking for water.
Julie Schutt went missing on May 7 from a home at Streaky Bay, on South Australia’s west coast, sparking a desperate but unsuccessful five day search.
On Sunday morning SA police confirmed the 48 year-old woman was located north of the town she disappeared from.
A member of the public, who was north-west of Streaky Bay, called police to say they had found a person ‘wandering out of the scrub’ asking for water.
Julie Schutt was seen on CCTV walking down a street and out of town
The Queensland couple were on a road trip and Clifford Schutt (right) went out to pick up dinner menus. However, when he returned, there was no sign of Julie
She was identified quickly after as the missing mum.
Police advised Ms Schutt is currently receiving ‘medical treatment’.
The random discovery of the missing woman comes two days after police began to scale back their search operation.
Clifford Schutt issued an emotional plea on Friday after his wife, and the mother of their three boys, vanished without a trace during the road trip of a lifetime.
Strangely Ms Schutt was last seen on commercial CCTV footage walking down a street and out of her town.
She was last seen about 5pm on the evening of May 7 at an address on Alfred Terrace in Streaky Bay.
Her husband described her disappearance as ‘bewildering’ and that he was ‘falling apart’ over her disappearance.
The couple have been married for 25 years.
Her brother Todd also issued a plea, but to his missing sister, though media.
‘Please come back, we need you,’ he said.
SA police superintendent Paul Bahr said nothing is known yet about where Ms Schutt was or how she survived.
‘We’d be keen to talk to Julie at some stage when she’s ready and how she managed to survive and where she was,’ he said.
