Jessica Zrinski: Twist in search for missing woman who accepted a lift from a stranger in Greenfield Tavern carpark

Homicide detectives working on the disappearance of Jessica Zrinski in 2022 have started a three-day search in the famous Jenolan caves area of NSW as part of ongoing investigations.   

Ms Zrinski, then 30, went missing after getting into a blue Holden Commodore at a pub in Greenfield Park in Sydney's southwest on Monday, November 28, 2022.  

The car is believed to have travelled west on the M4 motorway and Great Western Highway towards the Blue Mountains. 

Police were alerted on Friday, December 3, 2022 when family members could not locate or contact her.  

Investigators from Strike Force Keder started a bushland search in the Jenolan State Forest, about 13km north of Jenolan Caves on Friday.

The search is expected to last three days with assistance from the Dog Squad, Rescue & Bomb Disposal Unit and other volunteers.   

The new search follows a three-day search of bushland in the Hampton State Forest, about 115km west of Sydney in the NSW Central Tablelands in May 2023.

The driver of the Commodore, who has never been publicly identified, was unable to assist in the investigation after detectives seized and forensically examined the car.

Police have issued several appeals in the time Ms Zrinski has been missing and announced a $500,000 reward for information in November 2023.  

Ms Zrinski was last seen in the carpark of the Greenfield Tavern on Mimosa Road before she got into the blue Holden Commodore about 10 minutes later.

Police released CCTV footage of the vehicle travelling through Horsley Park at about 10.15pm that evening and Mount Victoria just before 9am the following morning.

Police believe Ms Zrinski was alive in the Commodore at mid-morning on Tuesday, November 29 before she vanished without a trace.

In the CCTV footage, she sits in the passenger seat of the car at a petrol station while a man in a grey t-shirt, black pants and sneakers gets out.

He fills the car up with petrol before going inside to pay and returning with two bottles of Coke.

In footage of the car in Mount Victoria the following day, the car is seen entering another petrol station with Ms Zrinski in the passenger seat.

Eerie CCTV was released of Ms Zrinski's last known movements on November 28.

She was wearing an orange singlet top, long black leggings, flat shoes and carried a cream handbag at the time.

Ms Zrinski is described as of Caucasian appearance, 165cm tall, with a thin build and has blonde hair.

She has tattoos on her right index finger, her left wrist and on the back of her neck.

Detectives have asked anyone who may have seen the vehicles to come forward by contacting Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000.