Body found in trough on rural NSW property identified as elderly woman missing for months

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• Police have identified a badly decomposed body discovered by trail bike riders on a rural New South Wales property as Yvonne Whear, a 73-year-old grandmother from the Northern Rivers. The remains were found on October 5, almost eight months after she was last seen at a Murwillumbah service station.
• Tweed Byron Police District Acting Commander Matt Zimmer said the family was enduring an unimaginable grief and urged anyone with information to come forward. A strike force is investigating her death, which is being treated as a homicide.
• Her submerged car was located in the Rous River in September.