It’s more than 100 days since Amy Schulkins, 36, walked out the door of her home in Brisbane’s north and simply vanished.
Wearing just her pyjamas and with $300 in her pocket, Amy’s mysterious disappearance left her distraught wife Rebecca Schulkins struggling to raise the couple’s five children on her own and deal with relentless online conspiracy theories about what may have happened to her partner.
‘Not a whisper,’ said Rebecca, fighting back tears as she spoke with Daily Mail Australia about whether there had been any contact or sightings of her wife.
‘We’ve heard absolutely nothing, but we’ll never stop searching,’ she said.
Amy left their home in Caboolture South around 11pm on December 30 last year.
Amy Schulkins (left) and her wife Rebecca (right) at their wedding in September, 2019. Ms Schulkins, 36, was last seen at a home in Caboolture South, north of Brisbane, on the night of December 30 before she ‘vanished off the face of the earth’
Rebecca (right) has had to deal with online conspiracy theories and false sightings
Amy hasn’t touched her bank account or accessed social media accounts since disappearing
She was driving her white 2001 Nissan Patrol with Queensland registration 257 VTN. The car was caught on traffic cameras at King Street, Caboolture, heading towards the highway and the direction of Bribie Island.
Neither Amy nor her car have been seen since. Her bank cards, mobile phone, e-toll, Facebook account and email have also not been used or accessed since she disappeared.
‘Today marks three months since you have been gone,’ Rebecca posted on March 30. ‘Three months of you not spending time with your children and family. We love you. So so much. Let us know that you are safe. I love you, like no words can say. Be safe baby, it is just you and me always.’
‘I’m doing the best I can,’ said Rebecca, speaking for the first time since she gave an emotional press conference with Queensland Police in early February to make a public appeal for information.
‘I’m not sleeping,’ she confessed.
The social media campaign to find Amy had now grown to nearly 30,000 members on the Search Team for Amy Schulkins Facebook group, many of them contributing their search routes to a public map of south-east Queensland.
The hashtag #findamy appears on car stickers and signs throughout the Caboolture area.
The Facaebook page devoted to the search for Amy now numbers 30,000 people
The hashtag #findamy is seen regularly on cars and businesses in the Caboolture area
Volunteer searchers add their routes to a shared Google map in the ongoing search for Amy
But along with those offering help and information are people offering conspiracy theories and implications Amy’s family had not told the ‘full story’ around her disappearance.
Some suggest Rebecca and Amy had fought before her departure, others that she was part of a drug deal gone wrong.
‘The family knows why she went and no, it isn’t drug related,’ wrote Rebecca in response to one commenter.
‘It’s the internet,’ sighs Rebecca. ‘Obviously I’ve told the police everything, and the family know absolutely everything and there are some things we would prefer to keep private.
‘She was in a different kind of mood that night [that she disappeared]… all of that day actually,’ said Rebecca. ‘She was not herself.
‘Her parents made a comment, when we visited them on that day, that she was out of sorts, but it wasn’t anything that I was concerned with because Amy does have some mental health issues.
Rebecca (pictured), who shares five children with Amy, broke down in tears during the Queensland Police press conference held in February
Police released the last known photos of the mother-of-five, showing her behind the wheel of her white Nissan Patrol at Caboolture just before midnight on the night she went missing
Amy’s phone was last ‘pinged’ at a private residence located near Morayfield and Gleeson Roads at around 11:10pm the evening she disappeared
‘She suffers from type 2 bi-polar so each day was different but it was a part of her and I loved every bit of her… I love every bit of her,’ she corrected herself.
She said the couple’s five children Dakota, Mika, Matilda, Zoe and Jensen, aged from six to 15, were still ‘asking a lot of questions’.
‘It’s something no family should have to go through.’
At the time she disappeared Amy had about $300, food and a tank of petrol with her.
Her phone was last ‘pinged’ at a private residence located near Morayfield and Gleeson Roads at around 11:10pm the evening she disappeared.
Ms Schulkins is caucasian, approximately 160cm tall. She’s of a larger build with short spiky brown hair and blue eyes, and was last seen wearing boxers and a white singlet.
She has a large distinctive sleeve tattoo on her arm of a woman’s silhouette against a sunset.
Ms Schulkins has a large distinctive sleeve tattoo on her arm of a woman’s silhouette against a sunset
Queensland Police told Daily Mail Australia that the investigations into Amy’s disappearance are continuing.
‘Extensive investigations have been conducted with police continuing to appeal for information from the public that could assist with this investigation. No new information has recently come to hand, however this remains an open missing person case and is regularly reviewed,’ said a spokesperson.
‘We really can’t understand how her car has not been seen,’ said Rebecca. ‘With all of the cameras and dashcam that are out there these days, none of us can understand how she hasn’t been spotted.
Does she truly believe Amy is still alive?
‘Of course I do,’ responds Rebecca, breaking down. ‘I can’t give up hope. Someone out there knows something and the family needs to know she’s ok.’
A GoFundMe page started by Amy’s family, parents Allan and Lee, and brother Levi, remains active to help raise money for a reward for information about her disappearance.
