Missing mother-of-three is found after she mysteriously vanished for more than a week
- Julie Schutt went missing on May 7 from South Australia
- She was located still in SA and is receiving treatment
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A Queensland mother who vanished without a trace for a week while on a family holiday has been found ‘wandering’ and asking for water.
Julie Schutt went missing on May 7 from a home at Streaky Bay, on South Australia’s west coast, sparking a desperate but unsuccessful five day search.
On Sunday morning SA police confirmed the 48 year-old woman had just been located north of Streaky Bay, on SA’s western Eyre Peninsula.
A member of the public, who was north-west of Streaky Bay, called police at 8am on Sunday to report finding a woman ‘wandering out of the scrub’ asking for water.
Julie Schutt was seen on CCTV walking down a street and out of town
She was identified quickly after as the missing mum.
Police advised Ms Schutt is ‘safe and well’ but is currently receiving ‘medical treatment’.
The random discovery of the missing woman comes two days after police began to scale back their air and ground search operation.
Clifford Schutt issued an emotional plea on Friday after his wife, and the mother of their three boys, vanished without a trace during the road trip of a lifetime.
Strangely Ms Schutt was last seen on commercial CCTV footage walking down a street and out of her town.
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She was last seen about 5pm on the evening of May 7 at an address on Alfred Terrace in Streaky Bay.
She and Clifford were in South Australia for a holiday.
She is not thought to have any friends or relatives living around Streaky Bay.
Her husband described her disappearance as ‘bewildering’ and that he was ‘falling apart’ over her disappearance.
The couple have been married for 25 years.
The Queensland couple were on a road trip and Clifford Schutt (right) went out to pick up dinner menus. However, when he returned, there was no sign of Julie
Her brother Todd also issued a plea, but to his missing sister, though media.
‘Please come back, we need you,’ he said.
SA police superintendent Paul Bahr said nothing is known yet about where Ms Schutt was or how she survived.
‘We’d be keen to talk to Julie at some stage when she’s ready and how she managed to survive and where she was,’ he said.
He said she would be reunited with her husband and children.
At one point last week the search effort including mounted police, police helicopter with heat-sensing technology, a drone, a boat, and State Emergency Services (SES) and Country Fire Service crews on the ground.
