{"id":78587,"date":"2026-08-23T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:55:09","slug":"police-search-for-85-year-old-man-missing-from-harrietville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78587\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for 85-year-old man missing from Harrietville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are searching for an 85-year-old man who went missing from Harrietville in Victoria&#8217;s north-east last on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Jacobus, also known as John, was last seen leaving the Harrietville Hotel shortly after 10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">John, whose last name has not been released, had been at the hotel with his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The pair have a regular routine where she walks the 200 metres south along the Great Alpine Road to home while he drives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">John was driving the couple&#8217;s silver 2007 Toyota LandCruiser, registration WBD-077, but when his wife arrived home, John and the car were not there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A drone picture looking down on a town in an alpine valley, with a dredge hole in the background. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cc8a40959133279f632c9cfe555e6548.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">John&#8217;s family and friends are searching Harrietville and surrounding areas. (Supplied: Colin Finnie)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police and family members are concerned for John&#8217;s welfare as he does not usually travel far by himself and was expected to go directly home.<\/p>\n<p>Search continues<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Local police have searched around Harrietville and Bright, including local tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Police Air Wing has also searched around Mount Hotham and along the Great Alpine Road, while friends of John have also joined the search.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A map of Victoria pinpointing Harrietville.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/62088c4d68522860184ddf7376bb4206.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Harrietville is a small town in the Alpine National Park, north-east of Melbourne. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have released an image of John, who is described as Caucasian, with a slim build and about 170 centimetres tall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He walks hunched over and uses a walking stick, and is unable to walk long distances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was last seen wearing a checked shirt, a vest and pants, and may have been wearing a hat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">His Toyota LandCruiser has a font nudge bar and two spotlights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police have asked anyone who has seen John or his car to contact Triple Zero (000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for an 85-year-old man who went missing from Harrietville in Victoria&#8217;s north-east last on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,119993,119992,119996,119995,119997,119994,9260,1057],"class_list":["post-78587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-great-alpine-road","tag-harrietville","tag-harrietville-search","tag-jacobus","tag-missing-harrietville-man","tag-missing-john","tag-missing-man","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}