The body of former missing person Natasha Ryan, who was previously known for being found hiding in her boyfriend’s cupboard while a man was on trial for her murder, has been found in Central Queensland.
Police told 9News Queensland the 40-year-old was found dead at the Rockhampton Golf Course this morning.
Officers will prepare a report for the coroner, with police saying the circumstances of her death were not suspicious.
Ryan ran away from her Queensland home at the age of 14 and disappeared.
For years police searched for her, and a man was charged with murdering her.
Almost five years after her disappearance, the man was on trial for her murder when police raided her boyfriend’s home and found the then-schoolgirl, alive and well, hiding in his cupboard.
She then became known as ‘the girl in the cupboard’.
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