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Tom Phillips vanished into the New Zealand wilderness with his three children in 2021

Police said he fled with the children after a dispute with his ex-partner, the children's mother

His family is now asking Phillips to return home with the children

A New Zealand family is urging a fugitive father who disappeared with his three children nearly four years ago to return home.

In 2021, Tom Phillips disappeared with his children Jayda, 12, Maverick, 10, and Ember, 9, after a dispute with their mother, according to the New Zealand Police .

Phillips was last spotted with his children by pig hunters who filmed them on remote North Island on Oct. 7, 2024, the New Zealand Police said.

Despite massive searches, reported sightings of Phillips and the children and even a reward

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