I’m following Sam’s case from the very opposite side of the world.
I hope and trust that the Australian police knows much more than has been published by the media (many of those articles being published by tabloids as well).
Crimes do happen, unfortunately, and there are some suspicious things in my opinion, too, but all those scandalous ”news” articles don’t do any favors at all, I think.
If Sam suffered from heat exhaustion, for example, it’s not unusual at all that the search groups didn’t find her. I have been following many cases where the missing person has been found in the area of the last sighting weeks, months or even years after despite of the extensive search efforts.
I’m hoping for the best for Sam and her family but unfortunately things don’t look very promising at this point any longer