A daughter testifies in a murder trial about her fear after her mother, former US beauty queen Priscilla Brooten, went silent before disappearing from a Brisbane home in July 2018. All three reports say Brooten never returned from the period in which she stopped communicating, and that her body has never been found. The daughter’s evidence focuses on the absence of response following that silence, describing concern as time passed without contact. The case centers on what happened after Brooten’s disappearance and whether the circumstances support the murder charge before the court. The articles do not report the outcome of the trial, but they describe the disappearance as a key event: Brooten was last seen or last known at her Brisbane residence in July 2018, after which she vanished without her remains being located. The reporting also characterizes her as a former beauty queen in the US, providing background on her identity as the case proceeds through the legal process.