Nicole Morris has been nominated for a Pride of Australia medal for starting and running the Missing Persons Register. Picture: David Martinelli Source: The Courier-Mail
IT was a television documentary about a missing woman that changed the life of Nicole Morris, a finalist in the National Pride of Australia Medal.
The documentary on missing Newcastle woman Susan Isenhood told how her 19-year-old nephew Dylan, who was studying at university, conducted a research project into her disappearance, 17 years after she was reported missing in 1985.
This led to her being identified as a woman whose skeletal remains were found in Kiwarrak State Forest in NSW.
"In the program, it said there was no national database for missing people, which is why it had been so difficult to solve," said Ms Morris, from regional Queensland.
‘‘I decided to create a site that was a central database where people can look up all the info.’’
For Mrs Morris, 42, a stay-at-home mother of two, the Australian Missing Persons Register website is a full-time occupation. She does not earn money from it yet says her database often leads to cases being solved.
She was successfully nominated for a Pride of Australia medal by a British couple David and Lesley Goldsmith, whose son Steven disappeared in Brisbane in 2000.
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