Desperate twist in search for missing mum as her family go to extreme lengths for answers

The family of a missing South Australian woman have taken desperate measures in their search to find the mother-of-six, clinging to any hope that she may still be alive.

Trisha Graf, 41, was last seen driving along Dunstan Drive in Andamooka, about 610km northwest of Adelaide, at 2am on December 12, 2025.

Just hours later, as concern began to grow, her partner Tony Gregory and a friend launched a frantic search. Around midday, they located her car abandoned near Blue Dam, a short drive from the small outback town.

Since then, police have declared Ms Graf’s disappearance a major crime investigation. Despite multiple searches, including in mine shafts, septic tanks and residential properties, no trace of the missing mother has been found.

Now, in a sign of their growing desperation, her daughter Montanah Shaw-Graf has turned to psychics in the hope of uncovering any clues that could lead them to her.

Posting online in the Facebook group Free Psychic Readings, Ms Shaw-Graf made a heartfelt plea.

‘My beautiful mother has been missing since 12th December 2025, Can I please get a reading?’ she wrote.

‘I just want to know if she is safe or not, or anything that will help bring her home.’

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Trisha Graf, 41, was last seen driving along Dunstan Drive in Andamooka, about 610km northwest of Adelaide

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Her daughter Montanah Shaw-Graf has turned to psychics in the hope of uncovering any clues

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She posted to a Facebook group that offers free readings

Within hours, several psychics responded, many offering messages of hope that her mother was still alive.

‘I feel she has mixed with the wrong people and is laying low,’ Rachel Lovski wrote.

‘I sense a feeling she is ok, she is hiding from a particular person and doesn’t want to be found. She wants to come back and will in her own time,’ Kiara Giaretto wrote.

‘I’m getting a dark feeling she was trying to hide from someone,’ added an anonymous user.

Queensland psychic Rochelle Beattie, who claims she has helped locate missing people worldwide, also weighed in to the conversation, posting a hand-drawn map depicting several components, including a red brick wall and a sign, in an effort to guide the search.

It also had the words ‘red’, ‘yellow’, ‘open room’ and ‘brothers’, as well as the names ‘Gary’ and ‘Tim’.

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Queensland psychic Rochelle Beattie claims she has helped locate missing people worldwide

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Ms Beattie drew a map to help find the missing mum

Ms Beattie, who regularly shares public readings on TikTok about high-profile missing person cases such as Gus Lamont and Pheobe Bishop, added that she had told police to ‘look for a grey shed near the airfield.’

‘When I remote viewed, she had planes and a fence in front of her so I’m assuming it’s a nearby airfield.’ she said.

The daughter’s turn to psychics comes as investigators continue to piece together the final hours before Ms Graf vanished.

On the night of her disappearance, Ms Graf was seen in the Roxby Downs Hotel with a friend.

She left a short time later in a white 2012 Ford Territory, accompanied by her friend Kymberley Conniff, who also lived in Andamooka.

On the drive back towards Andamooka, Ms Graf hit a kangaroo just outside the town, police said.

Despite the accident, Ms Graf and her friend continued into town and visited a house in the north-western area.

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On the night of her disappearance, Ms Graf was seen in Roxby Downs hotel

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On the drive back towards Andamooka, Ms Graf hit a kangaroo just outside the town

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Police and SES have conducted aerial and ground searches with no success

Shortly before 2am, Ms Graf left that address to make what should have been a five minute trip home. She was last seen driving along Dunstan Drive in Andamooka.

Mr Gregory later woke to find her missing and began searching for her. He went to her friend’s house before eventually locating the vehicle, which was damaged and could not be driven.

Police and SES initially launched an extensive response, conducting ground and aerial searches as divers combed the nearby dam and detectives went door-to-door in the remote mining community.

Ms Graf’s mother, Anne, who lives 600km south of Andamooka in the Barossa Valley, said Trisha would never leave her children ‘in a million years,’ and fears her daughter may have met with foul play.

However, some family members are still holding tightly to hope.

Ms Graf’s cousin Stacey Lee Van de Wiel also commented on the psychic reading and said she believes they will see her again.

‘Trisha Graf is one tough cookie and I have always looked up to her growing up as kids,’ she said.

‘Just how she never took s**t off anyone. I believe she is out there and I believe she will come home.

‘Her whole entire family love her and miss her so very much.’

Another family member, Janelle Graf-Cox, also supported the psychic readings and spoke of the grief shared by the family.

‘I hope they have some answers for you. My heart breaks for you, for all of us,’ she said.