WHEN she was seven years old Jackie Wright had a dream that her mother would leave the family home and never come back.
Two days after her unusual dream her mum, accountant Veronica Catherine Green, 38, left the Ardeer family home to go to work in the city.
She never returned home and has been missing since 13 February 1976.
Ms Wright, who now lives in Williamstown, and her sister Penny, who was 14 years old at the time of the disappearance, have been through 30 years of living with the unknown.
“My every birthday wish when I cut my cake was to see her again,” Ms Wright said.
The police have described Ms Green’s case as “unusual” as she left all her possessions at home.
But according to Ms Wright’s friends and extended family members, Ms Green had been sighted at different locations in Victoria.
Victoria Police Senior Constable Helen Nugent said investigators were keeping an open mind in relation to Ms Green’s disappearance.
“There are suggestions that she may have left of her own accord,” Sen Cons Nugent said.
Police believe Ms Green ran away with a man called Stevo, who was working for a wrecker in Ardeer, that she obtained a truck licence and worked throughout Australia.
Ms Wright said she never blamed her mother for leaving because she knew she had had a traumatic childhood.
“I just want her to know that she’s got nothing to fear and I know that she felt like she had no other way out.
“I just want her to know that it’s okay to come back and be a part of our life,” Ms Wright said.
Ms Wright described her mother as a “fun mum”, who was caring towards her children.
“People would say that she was one of the most beautiful people to walk the earth.
“Even if she doesn’t want to be part of our life then put aside our misery.
“After 30 years we deserve that. We deserve to know who she is, where she lives and leave it at that if she doesn’t want any contact,” Ms Wright said.
Only recently, Ms Wright met her older brother Steven, who was adopted out by his parents when he was a child. She said she wished her mother knew that her three children were united.
“I’d hate to think she was out there somewhere thinking she couldn’t come home because we hated her,” Ms Wright said.
Last week’s National Missing Persons Week aimed at encouraging people to come forward with information that could solve the puzzle of missing persons’ cases.
“We just need a name. We know that she doesn’t go by her real name,” Ms Wright said.
“If we had a new name for her or her partner or even her partner’s family, then we might have some information.”
Anyone with information on Veronica Catherine Green’s whereabouts should phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
