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Murder charge after Sydney woman vanishes from Winston Hills

A 58-year-old woman told her family she was going to meet a relative in Winston Hills on Monday afternoon. By Thursday night, a man had been charged with her murder. Police still have not found her body.

NSW Police say the woman was last heard from about 4.50pm on Monday, 8 June 2026. She had told relatives she was heading to Winston Hills, in Sydney’s north-west. When she did not return home, officers from Parramatta Police Area Command began investigating the next day.

Her car was found about 9.30am on Tuesday on Dodson Street, Winston Hills. That single detail appears to have become the hard edge of the case: the last known movement, a vehicle left behind, and a family waiting for answers that have not come cleanly.

Detectives set up Strike Force Dizek. About 1.40pm on Thursday, they arrested a 33-year-old man sitting in a white Toyota Hilux in bushland along Parnell Fire Trail at Tomerong, about 20 kilometres south of Nowra. Police later searched an address at Sanctuary Point.

The man was taken to Nowra Police Station and charged with murder. He was refused police bail and was due to face Bail Division – Court 3 on Friday, 12 June 2026.

The charge is grave, but the case remains incomplete in the most painful way. Police have said the woman’s body has not yet been located. They have not publicly named her, and they have not set out whether the man charged is the relative she told family she was going to meet.

That matters. At this point, the known facts are narrow and grim: a missing woman, a car found in a suburban street, an arrest more than two hours away on the South Coast, and a murder charge laid before a body has been recovered.

Police say the investigation is continuing.

Sources: NSW Police Force, ABC News, Guardian Australia/AAP.