NT Police offer $250,000 reward for information to find missing NT mum Angie Fuller
Police have offered a $250,000 reward to anyone who can help solve a mystery in the outback, nine months after a Territory mum vanished from the side of the highway.
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A quarter of a million dollars has been offered as a reward to anyone who has information to help solve a nine-month-old mystery in the outback.
NT Police have announced a $250,000 reward for any information about the disappearance of 30-year-old Angie Fuller.
Acting Commander Peter Kennon said the new reward came exactly nine months after the young Territory mum disappeared off the side of a Central Australian highway.
Ms Fuller was last seen pulling up at a truck stop north of Alice Springs, during sunset on Monday, January 9.
Her red Toyota Corolla was discovered abandoned on Tanami Rd 12 hours later, with no sign of the 30-year-old.
It took more than 48 hours for her disappearance to be reported to police, sparking an extensive search through 400sq km of desert shrub land and rolling red dirt north of Alice Springs.
Mr Kennon said the missing persons case — which is being treated as a homicide — hopes the cash reward will encourage those sitting on information to come forward and offer Ms Fuller’s family some closure.
“I know that Angie’s family are extremely distraught and want some answers in regards to her disappearance,” Mr Kennon said on Monday.
“Northern Territory police are calling on the public to contact us if you have any information, no matter how small you may think it is.
“Every piece of information is important to us and can help assist us with our investigation.”
He said the Tanami Rd was frequented not only by people living in the area, but tourists, mine workers and Alice Springs residents, who may have seen something from that evening.
“Something like this can prompt people to recall matters that they might not have thought were significant,” Mr Kennon said.
“There also might be people who know Angie and through their friends or network might have some information that they can offer.”
The cash reward could go to anyone who can provide information that leads to the location of her body, and the conviction of those responsible for her death.
The new call-out offers indemnity from prosecution for anyone who was an accomplice, but not a perpetrator of crimes against Ms Fuller.
“It is something that’s subject to negotiation at the time depending on what information a person has and exactly what it describes,” Mr Kennon said.
Loved ones have said Ms Fuller was on a road trip with friends in the lead up to her disappearance, with Mr Kennon confirming a number of people had already spoken with police.
Days after her disappearance a man claiming to be her boyfriend posted bizarre videos saying the pair was chased through the bush and shot at by a “gang”.
The Alice Springs man claimed he and his girlfriend fled into bushland and were separated, while dodging bullets.
Mr Kennon confirmed Ms Fuller’s partner at the time was currently incarcerated in another jurisdiction on an unrelated matter.
“(He is) certainly someone we have been speaking to as part of the investigation,” he said.
“We’re not in the position that we have a suspect or a person of interest that we’re announcing.”