Police use Facebook to search for missing woman

Published: 3:50PM Monday July 19, 2010 Source: NZPA

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Police are harnessing the power of social networking site Facebook in an attempt to generate further information about the disappearance of Auckland woman Carmen Thomas.

Police joined the recently established Carmen Thomas Facebook Group hoping people will share new information that may lead to finding her.

As of this afternoon, the group had 162 members, with 24 photographs of the 32-year-old Remuera mother, who has not been seen since July 1.

Acting Detective Inspector Mark Benefield said there are still dozens of unanswered questions around Thomas' disappearance.

"For instance, we know her Nissan Pulsar car was noticed in residential Dyer St in Hamilton on July 5, but who drove it there?

"Why was cash left in the car, along with an overnight bag and a child's car seat? Whose bag is it?

"We can't answer these questions without help from people who know something about what's happened to Carmen in the past three weeks or so."

The police investigation team has completed a search of Thomas' Ngaphui St, Remuera, home and has discovered some documents that may assist the investigation in the long term, but nothing was discovered that immediately progressed the search, he said.

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