Australia Samantha Murphy, 51, last seen leaving her property to go for a run in the Canadian State Forest, Ballarat 100km NW of Melbourne, 4 Feb 2024 #5

[Officer Dibble]

Music festival? ..must be hit and run..

What events were on the night before?

 

[Tandoori]

Looks like Damascus in later years.
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[Officer Dibble]

There is at least one scenario I can think of where it could be both an accidental hit and a subsequent murder... Perp driving carelessly, possibly under the influence of something after a night of hard partying, hits a jogger at a high rate of speed, stops, and realizes she's seriously injured, possibly not going to survive the crash, he knows he's in a sling and panics and bundles her off somewhere to either finish the job or let time do the inevitable to someone who is badly injured and doesn't receive care.

I can't think of the name off the top of my head, but I know of at least one similar case in the US from years ago- young woman left a bar and drove home inebriated, accidentally hit a pedestrian without any witnesses, and the impact of the crash flung him right through her windshield. She panicked and drove home and parked her car in her garage with him still pinned there, alive but obviously gravely hurt and begging for mercy. Instead of calling for help or taking him to the hospital, she called a couple of friends to come over and try to help her cover it all up because she cared more about going to jail or losing her license than she did an innocent human life.

Obviously I have no idea if this is what happened, but it could explain how someone who didn't even know Sam came to take her life without premeditation.

That is shocking that she kept driving with no windshield and the injured dying person in the car with her. JMO

 

[Marg944]

PY will mean 'peer year' as in he was in the age group that finished school in 2019.

Thanks Tandoori. I searched for schools shortened to PY and Pyramid Hill came up immediately on my search. This would mean that there is no record of 2 years of his schooling then…..

 

[ProfCluezo]

I suspect there is a LOT more still to emerge…

 

[Officer Dibble]

A deliberate attack on Samantha.

No accomplices.

He will not tell Police where the body is.

The best thing he can do is tell Police where the body is, for everyone's sake.

 

[Macha]

I've just read that he's been charged. There are 30 pages I've got to read to catch up.

 

[Marg944]

Looks like Damascus in later years.
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Fabulous work Tandoori! That is where he went!!

 

[Officer Dibble]

Can someone remind of the other case of someone running in the woods, mentioned previously in here, from a few years ago. Could he be linked to that, or not? I can't remember the details. JMO MOO

 

[followtheleader]

PY will mean 'peer year' as in he was in the age group that finished school in 2019.

Thank you, that has been driving me nuts all afternoon! So he left in around year 10, which would like up with reports of him being an electrician.

 

[ausleauther]

Affair could be the connection

 

[Kemug]

Thanks Tandoori. I searched for schools shortened to PY and Pyramid Hill came up immediately on my search. This would mean that there is no record of 2 years of his schooling then…..

Reform school perhaps?

 

[little drops of rain]

so obviously sm was targeted by this man and it wasnt random, otherwise they would have warned the public in the area to be careful

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[Marg944]

Reform school perhaps?

That is exactly what I was thinking, but @Tandoori has found he was at a different school, they posted it a few threads up.

 

[Kemug]

Thank you, that has been driving me nuts all afternoon! So he left in around year 10, which would like up with reports of him being an electrician.

There are likely a lot of people whose homes he was in doing electrical work - wonder how they are feeling now?

 

[Neet_Mc]

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I found mention of him attending SPC for the years 2014 to 2016 in the SPC school newsletter. But then it states PY 2019, which could be short for Pyramid Hill school, which is well over 2 hours drive from SPC. Seems a bit of a gap in his learning. I wonder why? What did he do from 2017 to 2019?

I have changed his name to Perp

• Great to see Old Boys SM (SPC 2014-2019) and Perp SPC 2014-16, PY2019) and current Year 11 student DP along with others, are encouraging a culture of looking after their mates in this story.

Juvi?

 

[tiff]

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Juvi?

Just not in the newsletter for a few years? 2014-2019 would be yr7-yr12, so the dates fit.

 

[SouthAussie]

Thank you, that has been driving me nuts all afternoon! So he left in around year 10, which would like up with reports of him being an electrician.

I haven't read that he is an electrician, but I have read (in an AFL magazine) that his dad had two trades before the AFL ... an electrician and a telecomms tech.

I wonder if he worked with his dad.

imo

 

[followtheleader]

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Details of arrest around 1:30

 

[Officer Dibble]

So IF it turns out to be deliberate what are the hypotheses for murder?
Personal vendetta?
Mental Health breakdown?
Always being strange/weird but never having a diagnosis of anything?
What else?
All above just my own opinion.