DAY 3 UPDATE: SEARCH FOR MISSING QUEENSLAND MOTHER TAKES CHILLING TURN 💥 HEARTBROKEN FAMILY SAYS THEY FEAR SHE MAY NEVER COME HOME
The family of a Queensland mother missing for three days fear she may have been murdered.
Police have turned to the public for assistance following the “out-of-character” disappearance of Jana Armstrong, 30, who was last seen on Tuesday.
Police are investigating the disappearance of Jana Armstrong, 30, who was last seen in Toowoomba on July 7, 2026 9News
Video of the hours before she went missing has been released, with Armstrong’s brother saying she would never willingly leave her four-month-old son.
The 30-year-old was captured on CCTV holding the boy on her hip inside a cafe on Tuesday morning.
She was last seen at her Gordon Avenue address in Newtown, Toowoomba that afternoon and has not been heard from since.
The 30-year-old’s white Hyundai Kona was found at the end of her street, abandoned in the middle of the road about 6am on Wednesday.
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The 30-year-old was last seen at her home on Tuesday afternoon and her car was found abandoned down the street on Wednesday morning. 9News
“The circumstances under which her car was found down the road from her address, she was nowhere to be seen, that immediately raised our suspicions,” Detective Acting Inspector Brian Collins said.
Armstrong’s home was being combed by forensic police and nearby reserves were being searched by police and the SES.
Her brother, Dean Armstrong, fears the worst, saying she’d never willingly leave her son, who is now in the care of relatives.
“We all miss her dearly,” he said.
“I’m just worried about him not living with his mum, you know. I can just tell looking at him that he’s going through a hard time.”
The mother was last seen on Monday afternoon parking her car near her Newtown home. Queensland Police
Police and her family said they hold serious concerns for her welfare, stating that her disappearance is “out of character”.
Armstrong’s eldest brother, Sam Davidson, is pleading for information from the public.
“We want anyone with information about Jana’s disappearance to contact police or Crimestoppers or anyone in the family directly,” he said.
“We have two boys, and she loved them so much she would come on holidays with us all the time, over at our place three nights a week.”
Jana Armstrong. 9News
Armstrong’s friend, Amelia Street, told the ABC that she works as a support worker, describing her as a “gorgeous soul”.
“She is an angel on earth,” Street said.
“I am absolutely desperate.”
Armstrong is described as caucasian, about 165 centimetres tall, with an average build, blue eyes, and brown hair.
She was last seen wearing a green-and-white striped Country Road shirt, jeans and thongs.
Police are urging Jana, or anyone with information regarding her whereabouts, to come forward.
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