WA COLD CASE CAN YOU HELP FIND LISA'S KILLER?

POLICE HOPE NEW EVIDENCE WILL FINALLY SOLVE THE 45-YEAR MYSTERY

- Jacqui Lang

To those who knew her, Lisa Mott was a sociable, happy 12-year-old who loved playing basketball and the clarinet, and spending time with friends.

Very thoughtful and with a “lovely nature”, she “always smiled,” her mother, Marion Flower, recalled. “She was just a lovely kid.”

Sadly, Marion, now 82, never saw her little girl grow up. At around 9pm on October 30, 1980, Lisa disappeared from her home town of Collie, located about 200 kilometres south of Perth, WA.

Lisa vanished while walking home after playing basketball with friends in the town centre and has never been seen again.

With local police baffled, what happened to Lisa that fateful night has become one of the state's most enduring mysteries.

“I went into shock and I ended up in the Collie Hospital in the middle of the night,” Marion told WA Police's Cold Case Western Australia podcast. “I was screaming and I could not stop myself.”

Four decades on, police are convinced Lisa was murdered. They are pinning their hopes on locating the owner of a yellow 1970s Holden HQ panel van with no number plates, which was found in bushland near Collie in 1996.