Haunting final words of girl, 18, to her sister just before she disappeared 16 years ago
Louise Tume was just 18-years-old when she went missing in 2005. Today she would be well into her 30s but her sister has not heard from her since a mysterious phone call a year after she had been reported missing.
Going a year without hearing from Louise was not unusual and Rebecca had not been told about Louise's disappearance at the time because she was sitting her GCSEs. It was only after the line went dead that her foster parents sat her down to explain. She told The Missing podcast: "I used to follow her around everywhere. She was a little bit more wild than most kids and was a bit of a bad influence as well. She once made me stand on a railway track with stones; she wanted me to wait until a train came."
Over a year later, police raided her dad's home after an anonymous tip-off and Rebecca and her brother were also taken into care. The trio were split up and sent to different foster families. Bewildered, Rebecca sat down with her foster mum, Sonia, who told her that Louise was considered missing. "She had gone missing in 2005 but they did not tell me for up to a year," said Rebecca. "I wasn't told because I was doing my GCSEs."
The suitcase After speaking to the authorities, Rebecca was given a suitcase containing Louise's belongings after she disappeared. In it was a letter from a Lee James. The letter was addressed to Louise and had been sent from HMP Wormwood Scrubs in West London. Rebecca did what she could to influence the investigation into her sister's disappearance, including setting up a Facebook group. "I either think she's being held against her will, or somebody has killed her," she told The Missing podcast. "She was so good at running away as well - and she always ran back to her family."
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