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Last seen: Monday, 08 January 1979

Year of birth: 1961

Complexion:Fair

Gender: Female

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Kim TEER has not been seen since August 1979. Kim had been spending the year backpacking around Australia with her border collie, Crosby. She had made her way to Melbourne from her hometown of North Haven in New South Wales and was due to travel to South Australia when she disappeared. Police would like to hear from anyone who may have met Kim or has any information regarding her disappearance.

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http://www.missingpersons.gov.au/en/missing-persons/profiles/profiles/t/e/teer kim - vic
 
"Last two people to see missing woman Kim Teer alive cleared by coroner"

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/last-two-people-to-see-missing-woman-kim-teer-alive-cleared-by-coroner-20150311-141ial.html

Ms Hawkins said she accepted police advice that Kim's friends, Russell Triggs and Gwynneth Clifton, were not suspects in the disappearance despite an argument between the two girls before Kim left the flat.

"I consider it most likely that Ms Teer died as a result of the involvement of an unidentifiable person or persons, probably whilst engaging in the high-risk activity of hitch-hiking," Ms Hawkins said.
 
'She just vanished off the face of the earth': The 17-year-old who went missing on the trip of a lifetime around Australia and 35 years later her family are still hoping for answers

Kim Teer was on the trip of a lifetime backpacking around Australia when her mother last heard from her.

Kim, who was weeks away from her 18th birthday, had written to her mother, Colleen Holding, asking her to send a copy of her birth certificate so she could get a driver's license. Colleen never heard from her daughter again.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-trip-lifetime-Australia-35-years-ago.html
 
[h=1]A lock of hair and a new DNA testing centre could help solve a 40-year-old missing person case[/h]
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Kim, 17, had left her home in New South Wales and was hitchhiking in Victoria when she went missing in 1979.

"It's something that's ingrained into you, when your children are missing and never to be found," Ms Holding told 7.30.

"Never to be able to bury them. Never to be able to see them get married. I can never be a grandmother."
Kim is just one of around 2,000 long-term missing persons in Australia.

There are also about 500 sets of unidentified human remains in morgues around Australia — Jane and John Does — who were someone's mother, father, son or daughter.

Many of these remains have never been DNA tested.


Ms Holding kept a lock of her daughter's hair from when she was two or three years old, and hopes the DNA it contains could hold the key to, one day, identifying her body.
She said despite having good detectives on the case, Kim's case was complicated by state borders.
Three years ago, a Victorian coroner found that Kim was probably deceased, date, location and cause unknown.
"I hate that word closure too. It's such a useless, stupid word," Ms Holding said.
Victorian coroner Judge Sara Hinchey said when a person goes missing in one state and a body is found in another state, the chances of matching that missing person to the located remains are slim.
Judge Hinchey said she believed a dedicated national missing persons' forensic facility could help solve more cases.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-...na-solve-40-year-missing-persons-case/9566320
 

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