Murdered mum Karlie Pearce-Stevenson had a $25,000 drug debt at the time of her death, police have confirmed.

Ms Pearce-Stevenson, who was killed and dumped in NSW’s Belanglo State Forest in 2008, allegedly fled Alice Springs with money meant to buy drugs, The Advertiser has reported.

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The paper says NSW homicide detectives confirmed they had received the information through Crime Stoppers a fortnight ago.

The caller claims Ms Pearce-Stevenson had been doing drug runs between Adelaide and Darwin before her murder.

She took her baby daughter, Khandalyce, with her when she left Alice Springs.

The two-year-old was killed shortly after her mother’s murder, and her remains were found dumped in a suitcase on the side of a highway in South Australia in July this year.

No one has been charged over the child’s murder but Daniel Holdom will again appear in a Sydney court on Thursday charged over the murder of Ms Pearce-Stevenson.