The remaining family of a missing Sydney model turned prostitute has welcomed a $1million reward for information about her disappearance 26 years ago.
Revelle Balmain, 22, was last seen on November 5, 1994, at Kingsford, in the city s eastern suburbs and is presumed to have been murdered.
Ms Balmain s half-sister, Suellen Simpson, said her sibling s disappearance had caused immeasurable grief to her family for a quarter of a century. For many years, our family worked tirelessly to find out what happened to my sister - but sadly both our mother and Revelle s father, Ivor, passed away without ever knowing what happened to their little girl, Ms Simpson said.
04:05 EDT, 13 December 2020 Gavin Owen Samer is the main suspect in the 1994 disappearance of model turned escort Revelle Balmain. He is pictured in 2018
A chef with no history of violence was unfortunate to be publicly linked to the disappearance of a prostitute and the death of his flatmate in a house fire.
Gavin Owen Samer was named two decades ago as a suspect in the 1994 presumed murder of 22-year-old Sydney model and escort Revelle Balmain.
He had also shared an apartment with pensioner Rosa Rosenberg, 52, before she was killed in an explosion in their former home in January.
Samer has never been charged in relation to Ms Balmain s disappearance but was convicted of assaulting Ms Rosenberg late last year.