Gran missing in bikini and hiking boots 'snatched because of her looks'

A 69-year-old woman dressed in only a black bikini and boots has gone missing while hiking with her husband.

Barbara Thomas was wearing a swimming costume and walking boots when she became separated from her husband Robert in the Mojave Desert on July 12.

With sun beating down on him, Robert managed to get to safety.

His wife, who had no supplies or mobile phone, has not been seen since however, with a major police hunt now underway to find Barbara in the desert's mid-thirties heat.

"Barbara was last seen wearing a black bikini, a red baseball cap and tan hiking boots with black socks," a spokesperson for the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said.

As the search has continued Robert, from Bullhead City, Arizona, has become a chief suspect, he claims.

He told Inside Edition in an interview that aired Wednesday that investigators consider him a prime suspect because "it was just the two of us" in the sweltering desert.

He also told the outlet he failed a lie detector test.

Robert said: “Yes, I took a polygraph test, they told me I was being deceptive.

“I know that polygraphs aren't 100 percent and I hadn't had any sleep."

During the interview Thomas said he realised his wife was missing when he stopped to take a picture of a rock formation and saw her rounding a corner.

"That’s the last I ever saw of her," he said.

When he turned the corner, Barbara was gone and Robert Thomas assumed he would find her sitting outside their camper.

He said: “I hollered her name and I waved my arms, and I looked around the area and I saw that she wasn’t anywhere around.

"She didn't respond. I got really panicky."

Thomas said he believes his wife was taken against her will because of what she was wearing and the beer she had.

He insists he had nothing to do with her disappearance.

"She is the love of my life," he said.

"Come home. We're missing you."

Source: Mirror

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