Close Ad Rest home's failure to check on elderly woman meant it took 12 hours to realise she was missing • Source: The failure of rest home staff to check on an elderly woman the night she disappeared meant it took 12 hours to realise she was missing, the coroner says. Helen Maree Dale Wilkins Source: NZ Police Helen Maree Dale Wilkins, 85, was reported missing from the Leigh Road Cottage rest home, north of Auckland, in November 2017. Despite extensive searches, she has never been found, and the matter was referred to the coroner in September 2018. In her just-released findings, Coroner Debra Bell has concluded Wilkins died.