17 YEAR AUSSIE MYSTERY My sister VANISHED AT A PARTY

Karen Schaffer, 49, Sydney, NSW

As my sister Kylee-Ann, 19, chatted away down the phone at me, I listened happily.

‘I’m going to dye my hair,’ she announced gleefully.

I smiled at her bubbliness.

My kind-hearted sister loved giving me a ring to tell me the latest news.

Thirteen years younger than me, Kylee-Ann was not long out of high school.

And even though she lived hundreds of kilometres away in Kempsey, NSW – with our dad, Peter, her mum,