'Becky, I'm OK...' - the last three words of a Yorkshire teenager to her sister before she disappeared
Louise Tume had not made contact with her family for more than a year when she called her sister out of the blue in 2006.
Here, we take a look at Louise's story and what we know about her disappearance almost two decades ago. Despite settling in a home, the trio's childhood did not get easier. Their dad used the family home as a place for his illegal business, meaning they were often exposed to drug addicts and guns. Life in care Rebecca eventually settled with a foster family in North Yorkshire, but Louise was not so lucky. "Louise was in care home after care home," Rebecca told The Missing podcast. "She kept running away and whenever she ran away she had a purpose: she ran away to see her mum."
Louise was last seen in Darlington - where she had moved into her own flat at the age of 18 after leaving the care system - on June 10, 2005. The last reported sighting of her came a week later in Islington, North London. "I hope you are doing well and that you are staying away from London... I do not want you having anything to do with your old way of life," the letter read. Rebecca said she feels the letter infers that "there was something going on in London" and that "there were high risk people that she [Louise] should not have been around."
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