This is the case of Marian Bata, a mother, teacher, friend. Missing for 26 years.

You know, no sign that she was going to vanish, that's for sure.

The bizarre circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

I'm not sure if it was intentional or if there's something more foul or foot.

If you could imagine a teacher coming straight from, say, a little house on the Prairie to the 80s, that was Marian Bata.

What do you want to do by sending her?

Whether you find Marian Bata dead or alive, I honestly believe somebody has that key piece of information.

And the relentless quest of a daughter to find her mum.

If something had happened, something has happened to make her leave.

I am 100% sure, 100% sure that somebody knows something.

The Lady vanishes.

Episode 51.

I'm Alison Sandy.

And I'm Brian Seymour.

On the 18th of January, 1970, a baby girl, a loner, Evelyn, Jacqueline Wooters, was born a King George V hospital, now known as Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

Her 23-year-old Hungarian-born mother was a loner Wooters, Nee Kinzel.

Her father was 30 years old and listed as a Belgian-born photographer named Willie Wooters, just one of the dozens of names he'd be known by throughout the course of his life.

The couple had married only a year prior, and much of the child's early life would be spent with her grandmother in Brussels, Belgium.

Everyone called her Evelyn.

Old photos of Evelyn as a toddler show her smiling warmly with dark eyes and a shock of golden curls.

Another has a beaming cheeky, as her young mum pulls her in tightly for a hug.

But troubled times lay ahead for this little girl triggered by the premature death of her mother at the age of just 31.

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