The family of a missing millionaire businessman has pleaded for public help in a case that has police baffled.
Herman Rockefeller disappeared on Thursday night after leaving Melbourne Airport following an interstate business trip.
His worried wife Vicky contacted police within two hours after he failed to arrive home, but detectives have been unable to find any trace of the property investor, who is due to turn 52 on Monday.
Mr Rockefeller, of Malvern East, was apparently in good health, and his family don't believe he has any enemies.
"This is the most baffling case in 31 years of my career. I can't understand where this person has gone," Detective Leading Senior Constable Peter Towner told reporters on Sunday.
Central to the investigation is the whereabouts of Mr Rockefeller's car, a blue 2007 Toyota Prius, which was seen exiting Melbourne airport about 9.30pm (AEDT) on Thursday.
Mr Rockefeller had been in NSW on a four-day business trip with his brother.
He flew from Newcastle to Brisbane on Thursday afternoon and contacted his wife and daughter just before boarding a Virgin flight to Melbourne.
Police say he landed in Melbourne about 9pm and was seen walking alone to the long-term car park. At 9.32pm his car, registration UUP-682, was seen on security vision leaving the pre-paid credit card exit.
The father of two never made it home.
Police say Mr Rockefeller's bank account has not been touched and his mobile phone remained switched off after the flight.
His Citylink account had not been activated, although the tollways were his logical route home from the airport.
"It's totally out of character," a distraught Mrs Rockefeller said.
"It's just absolutely baffling, there's nothing. That's why we just have to appeal to the public to look for that car and for him. We've got no other avenues to go down.
"You just can't imagine what it's like. It's just unbearable."
Police say there is nothing to suggest foul play but have no leads into the mysterious disappearance.
Mr Rockefeller's brother Robert said the pair had had meetings in Sydney, Bowral and Maitland regarding their family-run property investment business and Herman had been in good spirits.
"Why this is so out of character and so baffling and any family's worst nightmare (is because) I spent probably the best four days I've ever had with my brother," Robert Rockefeller said.
"Business is going great, a lot of opportunities for our business going forward, we had a strategy and we had a plan. He was thrilled about his daughter getting into Monash medicine, in fact when he heard the news on Monday afternoon he started crying."
Mr Rockefeller is a Harvard graduate and a former director of Carlton and United Breweries.
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