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Survival expert slams cops over search for missing mum
Samantha Murphy, 51, left her home on Eureka Street in Ballarat, in country Victoria, to go jogging through Woowookarung Regional Park at about 7am on February 4.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Some snippets from article:
An expert bush tracker believes missing mum Samantha Murphy could 'definitely' still be alive after nine days in bushland, and has accused Victoria Police of being too hasty in scaling back the search. 'She could absolutely be alive if she found her way to water,' he said. 'You can go about three days without water and about a month without food, but people have survived for months in the past.'
He said police usually call off ground searches between five and nine days due to a lack of funding and resources. Mr Cassar urged authorities to call on bush trackers to help, and said he would be willing to stage his own search. 'It's not a good way to go, being left in the elements,' he said. 'The SES do a great job, as do police, but volunteers need to get back to their families and their jobs.'
So there is still hope for Samantha if she is still in the bushland.
Small teams of locals scoured bushland for the missing mum on Sunday, while another group organised to meet at Buninyong Police Station the following morning, but with temperatures soaring to 36 degrees, no one showed up on Monday.
Not good news as regards the search.
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