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Updated · Fox News · Jul 14

Las Vegas Search Group Issues Alert for Missing 26-Year-Old Australian Tourist After June 20 Hike Message

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Jul 14

Las Vegas Search Group Issues Alert for Missing 26-Year-Old Australian Tourist After June 20 Hike Message

Q: Did a viral video capture a vital clue before an Australian tourist vanished on a Las Vegas hike?

Yes. A widely shared video appears to show Sally Grace Contarino three days before she vanished, and it has become a potentially useful timeline clue, though not proof of what happened to her. The clip, recorded on June 17 by influencer @epicdamianpov outside a 7-Eleven on Boulder Highway near Flamingo Road, shows a woman identified in reports as Contarino politely declining his advances. By mid-July, the video had drawn hundreds of thousands of views. Investigators and searchers have treated it as relevant because it places her at a specific Las Vegas location before her disappearance and offers a clearer view of her clothing, bag and apparent condition. That said, the stronger confirmed timeline remains June 20. Police and search groups say Contarino, 26, was last seen around 1 p.m. near 9700 West Skye Canyon Drive, with security footage from a Smith’s Market at 1:02 p.m. She also reportedly messaged a friend that day saying she was going for a hike at Lone Mountain. She then missed her June 21 flight home to Melbourne. So the viral video did not capture her disappearance itself, and there is no public evidence it revealed a decisive breakthrough. But it likely provided investigators with a meaningful pre-disappearance sighting and helped narrow her movements in Las Vegas before she went missing.

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Red Rock Search & Rescue issued an alert for Sally Grace Contarino, a 26-year-old Melbourne tourist who has not been seen or heard from for three weeks after a June 20 message saying she was going for a hike.
Police say Contarino flew from Melbourne on June 13, confirmed by June 18 that she had reached her downtown Las Vegas hotel, and was last seen at 9700 West Skye Canyon Drive.
Authorities were notified after she failed to board her flight home, prompting Victorian Police to file a missing-person report that the Australian Consulate in Los Angeles relayed to Las Vegas Metro Police.
The rescue group said her trip reportedly included Las Vegas, Mt. Charleston and Southern California, and asked anyone with information to contact police.