My friend sent through a precis of the Herald Sun article:
P1:
The bodies of High Country campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay were burned after they were killed.
In a grisly twist in the Wonnangatta Valley double murder case, the Saturday Herald Sun can reveal the victims were incinerated in bushland near Arbuckle Junction, in a remote area of East Gippsland.
The blaze, lit within metres of where the two were found, may have been an attempt to destroy their remains.
P5:
The bodies of High Country campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay were burned after they were killed.
In a grisly twist in the Wonnangatta Valley double murder, the Herald Sun can reveal the victims were incinerated in a fire lit in bush near Arbuckle Junction, in a remote area of East Gippsland.
It is believed the campers were burned within metres of where they were found buried near the Union Spur Track.
The missing persons squad used the same arson chemists who examined the initial burnt-out campsite at Wonnangatta in March last year during a painstaking inspection of the Arbuckle Junction scene last week.
Police have seized guns from Mr Lynn, a licensed firearms owner, since he was arrested. They will be examined as part of the complex inquiry.
The HS believes Mr Lynn was flying Jetstar planes for a brief period after being identified as one of the figures of interest to investigators.
However, he was grounded for most of that period because flights were grounded because of pandemic restrictions.
Mr Lynn also had significant health issues that had ruled him out of taking the controls of a plane for some time.
Mr Lynn's social media page claimed a bee sting resulted in him being admitted to hospital.
Police are still looking for a trailer allegedly used to transport the missing campers from Wonnangatta to the burial site.
Detectives believe it was sold on Gumtree between March and July last year. Mr Hill’s drone has not been found.
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There are multiple problems with this article.
1. AFAIK, the police have not claimed the trailer was used to transport Mr Hill or Ms Clay's remains. The Police want to find it and examine it. This claim by the HS may reflect a theory the police have, and perhaps the journalist was told this.
2. If Mr Lynn was continuing to fly after being identified as a person of interest, that would suggest sometime in the middle to second part of last year. But the the HS says, Mr Lynn had "significant health issues". How HS knows any of this, it does not say.
And finally...see next post....
