Very good point and back up info. There are many cases of bodies found in wilderness areas in locations already searched. Many searches are volunteers and after a short time may fatigue and loose concentration. We don't know if cadaver dogs were taken to Wonangatta but fruitless searching means little. FBI body dumping theory would suggest if murdered at the campsite their bodies would be within 100 feet of a road or track in the valley.I agree that not finding their bodies is why the case is so uncertain.
I don't know the terrain and ground cover and I wish I knew more, but I am very hesitant to assume that if their remains were in the vicinity, they would have been found.
For example, a man went missing in Joshua National Park in US: a place with no bushes or trees. His remains weren't found for 18 months, even though family had passed within 15 feet of his remains, and not far off the trail. Human remains found at Joshua Tree National Park have been identified as a missing Canadian man - CNN He was wearing earth toned clothing, and the body was on the slope above them.
The searches for a missing woman in Scotland passed repeatedly near her body, which was at the base of a tree with low, concealing limbs. A search by a close friend who, after 3 months, flew from the US found her remains quickly. A second search on Saturday located her corpse 25ft into the woods, just 100 yards off Loch Hoil Trail — which “significant numbers” of cops had used during their hunt (with cadaver dogs too).
How could cops have missed her?
100 yards is not that close: especially since she was also concealed by tree branches. Unless you were close to her and bent down and looked, she was invisible.
This is not to say they are nearby, just that to rule it out completely seems to me unwise in a wilderness area.
"New clues"?! I certainly hope so!Wisdom and experience take journalist Liz Hayes to new investigative role | Have a Go News
Liz Hayes, stalwart of 60 Minutes, likes to stay open to new ideas and the proof is in the proverbial pudding.
The veteran journalist, turning 65, has helped conceive a serious new TV program, Under Investigation with Liz Hayes.
Welcomed with open arms by Channel 9 and to be launched after the Australian Tennis Open, the pilot series will spotlight crime and mystery.
The network said: “Experts will interact, pulling apart a mystery and revealing details only true experts can uncover.”
Upcoming subjects are how a forensic fire expert uncovers a murder in the remains of a bush campfire and how international scientists tracked Vladimir Putin’s chemical assassins. They will include Australia’s most intriguing recent mysteries and cases which have fascinated the nation in recent years.
Sitting around a ‘war table’, handmade from 100-year-old hangar beams, will be a panel of experts including ex-NSW homicide detective Gary Jubelin, re-examining the disappearance and murder of Janine Vaughan in Bathurst.
In another segment, the family of murdered Cairns woman Toyah Cordingley open-up to Liz and her team.
Liz and forensic specialists discover new clues in Victoria’s high country mystery, the disappearance of elderly lovers Russell Hill and Carol Clay from a remote alpine campsite.
the new under investigation programme starts on march 1st
hopefully they start with this case