Police are appealing for public assistance to locate an elderly woman missing from Swansea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marika Muller, aged 79, was last seen on Pelican Street, Swansea, about 4pm today (Tuesday 30 December 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Family and police hold concerns for Marika\u2019s welfare as she lives with dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marika is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 150cm tall, of thin build, with grey hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was last seen wearing a floral dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marika is believed to be on foot and likely still in the Swansea area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone who see her is urged to contact Lake Macquarie Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate an elderly woman missing from Swansea. Marika Muller, aged 79, was last seen on Pelican Street, Swansea, about 4pm today (Tuesday 30 December 2025). Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts. Family and police hold concerns for Marika\u2019s welfare … Continue reading “Appeal to locate elderly woman missing from Swansea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36775,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36774\/revisions\/36775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}