Body found in stockyard trough confirmed to be missing 73-year-old Yvonne Whear

New South Wales police have identified a decomposed body found in a remote stockyard trough in Terragon, near Murwillumbah, as missing woman Yvonne Whear. The partially submerged body was discovered last week, eight months after Whear vanished.

The police are treating the death as a homicide. According to The Guardian, Whear was last seen in mid-February buying orange juice and adding $50 credit to her phone in Murwillumbah.

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