$500,000 reward announced by Queensland Police in case of missing mother Tamela Menzies

Police have announced a large cash reward in hopes of prompting fresh tips in a missing person case spanning three decades. Find out the latest.

Gold Coast missing persons: Tamela Menzies was last seen at Palm Beach on 20 July 1995. Picture: Supplied.

Police have announced a $500,000 reward in the hope of prompting fresh leads in a three-decade missing person case on the Gold Coast.

Tamela (Tammy) Menzies, also known as Tammy Dyson, was last seen at Currumbin on July 20, 1995.

The then 23-year-old had travelled from Melbourne, leaving her children with their grandmother and saying she would be back.

Tammy contacted her mother days later and said she would be staying in NSW for a couple of months before returning home.

She hasn’t been seen since.

Police have long considered Tammy’s disappearance suspicious.

Launching a fresh appeal for information on Wednesday morning, alongside Tammy’s family,

Detective Senior Sergeant Tara Kentwell of the Homicide Cold Case Investigation Team said she believed “irrespective of the passage of time”, Tammy’s disappearance could be solved.

“We do believe that with public assistance, irrespective of the passage of time, this crime can be solved, offenders can be brought to justice and we can provide some answers for Tammy’s family and friends,” she said.

Detective Senior Sergeant Kentwell said Tammy had been working in the adult entertainment industry at the time of her disappearance and that she had been “associating with known Brisbane criminals and using drugs”.

Gold Coast missing persons: Tamela Menzies was last seen at Palm Beach in July 1995. Picture: Supplied.

She appealed for any person who collected or knows who collected Tammy from a rehabilitation clinic at Currumbin on July 20, 1995 to come forward.

While Tammy’s two sons Jyles and Rainey Lebler gave an emotional appeal for “closure” especially for their now 74-year-old grandmother.

“We need your help to find out what happened to our mum. We were only little boys when our mum disappeared and we have wondered what happened to her for all our lives,” Jyles said.

“Our grandma who raised us has never given up in trying to find out what happened to our daughter.

“Mum has missed all of our important milestones in our lives that she should have been there before... mum will never be at our weddings and she will never get to meet her grandchildren.

“I was 3 and Rainey was 1 so we were both pretty young... I just remember playing with her when I was little and just being loved.

“Someone obviously knows something, she hasn’t just walked off the face of the earth... we have grown up with no mum our whole life. It’s not right”

Jyles said the person who collected their mother from the Currumbin clinic, claimed to be Tammy’s sister Olivia.

“We know that someone knows what happened to mum, please come forward and help our family,” Rainey said.

“Our grandma who raised us is getting old and we hope that find out what happened to mum to give grandma some closure before it is too late.”

“If you were the woman that picked mum up from the Currumbin clinic can you please come forward, if you knew mum back in 1995, please contact Crime Stoppers because even if you think your information doesn’t matter it could be the piece of the puzzle that helps us find out what’s actually happened.

“It hurts every bloody day. She wouldn’t just disappear and leave us both behind, she really loved both of us, would have done anything for us.”

Detective Senior Sergeant Kentwell said: “I believe Tammy’s lifestyle at the time has resulted in us being here today”.