{"id":326721,"date":"2025-10-23T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326721\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:54:15","slug":"michelle-leahy-tragic-development-as-mother-of-threes-body-found-following-desperate-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326721\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Leahy: Tragic development as mother of three\u2019s body found following desperate search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The body of a mother-of-three who was at the centre of a desperate search after she vanished a week ago has been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Michelle Leahy, 50, was found by police on Thursday evening, seven days after she walked from Hollywood Private Hospital last Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police are not treating her death as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The tragic development came just hours after Superintendent Manus Walsh revealed investigators had done letter drops around the Bruce Street area near Stirling Highway in Nedlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Supt Walsh said police were particularly interested in finding a blue bag Ms Leahy, aged 50, was carrying when she left the hospital about 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cIf there is opportunities to find that blue bag that may hold some real investigative opportunities for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThat that bag is a disposable item as such, so it may have been left somewhere, which may give us an opportunity to further the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d78aa1847fc92e4912a1112fdc91707019d4edfd.jpg\" alt=\"CCTV of her last known sighting. \" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconCCTV of her last known sighting.  Credit: WA Police\/supplied<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/73313d9b78bc7ef84b5c9450a670c7a9ca096e92.jpg\" alt=\"Ms Leahy seen holding a blue bag.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconMs Leahy seen holding a blue bag. Credit: WA Police\/supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe are really appealing to the people\u2019s sense of compassion for this family, as I said, there is three kids who currently don\u2019t know the whereabouts of their mum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d0e069fd26f1a38a51439ab58062a29a0e60b6c1.jpg\" alt=\"Superintendent Manus Walsh.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconSuperintendent Manus Walsh. Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Michelle Leahy\u2019s family put up a $100,000 reward in the hopes it will lead to the location of the mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cFor our family, it\u2019s absolutely gut wrenching \u2014 Michelle and I have three beautiful children who have grown up in a household where she\u2019s been a very devoted, loving, nurturing, caring mother and really the centre of our family,\u201d her husband, Murray Leahy, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cTo not know that she\u2019s safe is causing the four of us to here at home a level of pain that I didn\u2019t think was possible to be able to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\"><strong>Lifeline: 13 11 14<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a mother-of-three who was at the centre of a desperate search after she vanished a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-326721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115424058838599884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}