It has been a week since the 42-year-old was last seen alive, and four days since her body, wrapped in material, was found in crocodile infested Isabella Creek about 12km from the home she shared with her husband and two small boys.
Her husband — who is not considered a suspect — was working away from Cooktown and returned home on Thursday to find her missing.
Heartbreakingly, her two boys, aged 8 and 10, came home from school on Wednesday and found their mum gone. They ate biscuits for dinner and put themselves to bed, and then got up and took themselves to school the next day.
Detective Inspector Geoff Marsh, who is leading the hunt for Ms Steele’s killer, said: “They’ve got themselves to school the next day, didn’t tell anyone at the school or any teacher what had happened.”
“You can only imagine” what the boys went through over that 24 hours “without their mother and not knowing what their future held for them,” he told media.
Ms Steele’s husband, a mechanic, raised the alarm on Thursday night and a desperate search began. It ended in tragedy when her body was found partly submerged in the creek close to the property of her close friends Rosyln Avard and Mark Sears. Both had been involved in the search for her.
The couple lived about 5km from where her body was found.
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