Missing woman Tammy Lisa Dyson's two adult sons make tearful appeal after she ... trends now
The two adult sons of a missing woman who vanished when they were infants have made an emotional plea for information on her whereabouts - as police announced a major new cash reward.
Jyles and Rainey Lebler were aged just three and one, respectively, when their mum Tammy Lisa Dyson, 23, went missing from the area of Currumbin, Queensland on the Gold Coast in 1995.
The brothers' mum, who legally changed her name to Tamela Lisa Menzies in the months before her disappearance, had been picked up from a drug rehabilitation centre by a woman claiming to be her sister, and has not been seen since.
The announcement of the $500,000 reward, which includes immunity from prosecution for any accomplice who sheds light on Ms Dyson's disappearance, is welcome news for her children.
Trying to hold back tears at a press conference on Wednesday, Jyles Lebler, 31, explained how tough it had been without her.
Last Santa family photo: Tammy Dyson (pictured with her young sons Jyles and Rainey Lebler) went missing in July 1995, months after this picture was taken
Rainey (left) and Jyles Lebler (right) were aged one and three, respectively, when their mum disappeared. The boys were emotional on Wednesday when asking for any information as part of a renewed push to discover what happened to their mother
'Growing up without mum and not knowing what happened to her has been very hard,' he said.
'She won't be at our weddings and she will never get to meet her grandchildren. Someone obviously knows something.'
From Victoria, the mum moved to Brisbane in 1988 when she was 17 and began working in the adult entertainment industry, under the alias 'Pebbles'.
Police say when she started working in the seedy strip clubs of Fortitude Valley, she started mixing with criminals and using drugs.
In early 1995, Ms Dyson arranged for her two young sons to stay with their grandmother in Victoria. Her mother, Loretta, told police it was a temporary arrangement and her daughter was going to come back to get her boys.
Months later, however, her sister Olivia received a
