Arabic version: عائلة ألبرت بيساني تجدد مناشدتها في القضية الباردة

According to ABC News, the family of Gippsland father Albert Pisani has renewed its appeal for information 40 years after he disappeared from Moe in Victoria’s east.

Victoria Police’s Missing Persons Squad is again focusing on the case, which began when the 27-year-old vanished on 10 October 1986. Police said he was last seen walking on Prince Street in Moe and was believed to be planning to visit a bank in the town centre before returning home for lunch with his partner and five children.

Mr Pisani was reported missing on 15 October after relatives initially believed he might have gone on one of the road trips he regularly took. His remains were found in bushland at Driffield on 9 June 1987, about 20 kilometres from his home in Moe. Police believe foul play led to his death.

Investigators have spoken with Mr Pisani’s family, friends and associates over four decades. Police believe he was involved in a dispute at his workplace, the State Electricity Commission Briquette Factory in nearby Morwell, before he disappeared. They said it remains unclear who may have been involved or what motivation there may have been.

Mr Pisani’s sisters, Carol Ward and Karen Pisani, have issued public statements about the impact on their family. Karen Pisani said their mother, Mary, died in 2016 after suffering significantly from Albert’s murder, and called for anyone with information to come forward.

Police said Mr Pisani had no criminal history and was not known to them before his disappearance. A reward of up to $1 million, announced in 2016, remains available for information leading to the conviction of the person or people responsible. Detective Inspector David Dunstan said police did not believe Mr Pisani took his own life and that his disappearance was out of character.