Her husband died in 2016 and her children had all moved out, except the youngest son Selim, by December 2018.
Selim was standing next to his mother at an ATM as CCTV captured her withdrawing her pension, as she always did, one week before she vanished, the coroner found.
Selim Sensoy lived at home with his mother before she vanished. A coroner concluded she died in suspicious but unknown circumstances.Credit: Nine
The next pension payment, a week after she vanished, was never withdrawn and her bank accounts have not been touched since.
The coroner said phone records show the final call from Sensoy’s phone, on the day she disappeared, was to cancel an appointment with her endocrinologist.
The day after she vanished, police were told, Sensoy’s long-term friend called and Selim answered, according to the findings.
“Mum is very sick. She can’t get up. Her eyes don’t see. Her sugar is high,” Selim told his mother’s friend, according to the findings.
Sensoy told one friend she would go to Turkey “and not come back” shortly before she disappeared, the coroner said.
But immigration documents show no sign Sensoy ever left Australia and her friends, who she usually stayed with in Turkey, had not heard from her. Police found her passport and dentures still in the Prospect house, according to the coronial findings.
Another friend told police she wanted to visit Moree’s hot springs.
But no one around Moree’s hotels, women’s shelters and hot springs recognised her picture, police discovered.
There is no credible evidence she went to either Moree or Turkey, Forbes concluded in her findings.
A police cadaver dog and officers searched a dog park near the home after Selim’s phone was found there by a good Samaritan, but nothing turned up.
“Mrs Sensoy has not been located over the course of the investigation to date,” Forbes concluded.
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Nadire’s daughter, Turkan Alagoz, wept, begging for more information two years after her mother’s disappearance.
“It’s been so difficult not knowing where Mum is and not being able to speak with her,” Alagoz said.
“Please, if you know where she is or have any information that can help police find her, I beg you to come forward.”
Police offered up a $350,000 reward.
Selim was arrested in Wagga Wagga and refused bail, charged with his mother’s murder.
Selim will return to court later this month.
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