Angie Fuller: Video call to missing mum answered by someone else just hours before she was likely murdered

A video call to the mobile phone of Angie Fuller — that was answered by someone else — on the night she disappeared in the outback could now be crucial evidence in her unsolved murder investigation.

Ms Fuller vanished without a trace in the Central Australian desert outside of Alice Springs in the early hours of January 10 last year.

The young mum, who had recently moved to Alice Springs, had arrived back in town — after spending Christmas in Darwin — just hours before she went missing.

Northern Territory Police say the last independent sighting of Ms Fuller was at 6.40pm on January 9, 2023.

The 30-year-old was captured on CCTV at a truck stop, north of Alice Springs, with her boyfriend Jake Jefferson Peters.

The Nightly can now reveal that one of her friends tried to call her a few hours after that final confirmed sighting.

“I tried calling her and Jake answered the phone,” the man said.

“It was a video call … on Snapchat.

“It was that night, the night she went missing.”

The Alice Springs man who tried to call Ms Fuller also knew Peters.

The 28-year-old, who has provided statements to homicide detectives but does not want to be named, said Peters was at home when he answered Ms Fuller’s new phone.

He did not see or hear Ms Fuller during his brief conversation with Peters and never heard from the missing mum again.

“There’s still a big question mark,” he said.

“To be honest, there are a lot of theories. I just can’t get my head around it.”

The mum-of-two has not made contact with her family, accessed her bank accounts or logged into her social media accounts since that night.

Peters reported Ms Fuller missing to police two days later.

Following Ms Fuller’s disappearance, her boyfriend claimed that the couple had been run off the road by “three carloads” of armed gangsters before hitting a tree and getting bogged, about 15km west of the Stuart Highway intersection.

Mr Peters said that when he could not get the car unstuck, the pair fled — both barefoot — into the desert to escape from those shooting at them.

Police have previously told The Nightly that Ms Fuller was likely driving her red Toyota Corolla — with Peters in the passenger seat — when it came into contact with an unrelated vehicle on the Tanami Road in the early hours of January 10, 2023.

It is believed that after Ms Fuller’s red Toyota Corolla was bumped off the road and became bogged, the pair had run away.

Investigators suspect Ms Fuller was murdered sometime between this incident on Tanami Rd and when Peters reported her missing late on the night of January 11.

Police remain interested in the movements of two vehicles Peters had access to during this 48-hour period.

Those vehicles are Peters’ 1998 silver Nissan Pulsar sedan and a 1986 camouflage-coloured Daihatsu Rocky with the rear canopy removed and no registration plates.

Soon after Ms Fuller’s disappearance, Peters fled to Queensland where he has since been jailed over a “frenzied” knife attack on strangers, including a toddler, during a couple of botched carjackings west of Brisbane.

The 27-year-old was last month convicted of attempted armed burglary, deprivation of liberty, two counts of unlawfully entering a vehicle with intent to commit an indictable offence while armed, three counts of assault occasionally bodily harm while armed and entering premises and stealing.

He also pleaded guilty to a spate of summary offences including obstructing police, possessing a knife in a public place, fare evasion, possessing dangerous drugs and failing to properly dispose of needle and syringe.

Meanwhile, multiple searches for Ms Fuller have failed to find her body or possessions.

Her mobile phone, which Peters answered that night, and her car keys remain missing.

In October, NT Police offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to the location of Ms Fuller’s body and the conviction of anyone responsible for her death.

In addition to the quarter-million dollar reward, indemnity from prosecution may be recommended for any accomplice, not being the person who actually committed the crime, who first gives such information.

If you or someone you know is experiencing family violence, phone 1800 RESPECT or the Crisis Care Helpline on 1800 199 008.

Anyone with information about Angie Fuller’s disappearance is urged to contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 and quote #10228143.