This was the last text message Renae sent before she went missing.

On August 5 2013, 20-year-old Renae Marsden left her family’s home in Sydney’s suburban Hills District, to travel to a work function in the Eastern Suburbs, on the other side of the city.

The medical science student was looking forward to her 21st birthday in October.

As she left, she sent her mother her text telling her that she loved her and she was her best friend.

And then she was gone.

Renae’s mother Teresa has told The Daily Mail that she contacted the police shortly after receiving the text. However, it wasn’t that the text seemed “out of the ordinary”, she was worried that Renae had expressed fears of a violent person in her life just two weeks before her disappearance.

The police tracked Renae to Watsons Bay, where she was supposed to be meeting her colleagues, however, when they arrived they found her car – locked – but not her.

Her car – which she normally used to hold clothes and other items – was completely empty.

Despite social media efforts, 11 months later Renae is still missing.

Teresa believes that her daughter is still alive, but that she has probably run far away from Sydney, possibly to escape this violent person. She has been travelling up and down the East Coast of Australia putting up these posters:

The police are now preparing a report for the coroner, but Ms Marsden refuses to believe that her daughter is dead. Via The Daily Mail:

‘It’s different if you see a body, but here’s too much evidence to suggest she’s alive. There’s not evidence to suspect she’s not here,’ she said.

‘She was at her cousin’s 21st birthday two days before (she disappeared) having an absolute ball. She loved her cousin.

‘There was no change in demeanour, we were having a good night.’

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