Snap chat also has a map function if it is turned on shows pretty precisely where you are…
Re: earlier snapchat map discussion. Snapchat has a couple of map functions which you can choose to enable/disable. I'm a casual snapchat user and I have my map function enabled but only visible to a couple of friends in the app. But my location only updates when I use the app. So if I was, for example, out for a forest walk earlier today and snapped a pic of a flower and sent it, it'd show my location there. And if that was my last location according to the app it'd show as such, but with a note saying "last seen 5 hours ago" or however long ago it was.
There's also a live location sharing option which does exactly what it says on the tin. I think I've only used it once, and only to meet a friend in the city who was terrible at directions! You select the people you want to share your live location with and you don't have to actively be using snapchat to show up live on their map. There's a similar function available on Google Maps, from memory. Anyway from my limited snapchat usage I don't think live location sharing is something a lot of folk do.
Then there's 'ghost mode' which you have to actively select- it obscures your location (and from memory it also drops your location history from snap maps, though I could be wrong about that). Of course there's always the option of simply not ever enabling your location sharing at all, in which case you'd never need to activate 'ghost mode' because you'd never be visible on the map anyway.
IMO I would assume most 20-somethings would use snapchat as one of their primary social platforms and chances are high that they'd have a core group of friends who could see their most recent location if they did so much as open a snap from someone.
Another point on snapchat: you can absolutely save photos and videos on there. It notifies the sender, however. But it's common practice- one of my stepkids saves all her snaps, even the most boring ones I send her. And she saves sent ones to 'memories' and I'll regularly get 'memory' ones from her (e.g. on this day two years ago she was taking selfies with her chicken). So when you save a snap, it holds it in the chat log and you can scroll back and see them all, much as in the same way you scroll back through any message platform and see previous messages. You can also select 'download to camera roll' after you've saved a snap and it'll save it to your device gallery. Again, it notifies the sender you've done this. But it's incredibly common practice. Gone are the early days of snapchat where its main drawcard was that everything disappears!
Does it look more like a Hilux N70 to you? Visually, it resembles the N70 a lot, but I'm not sure. If there are any car experts here, they might be able to confirm.
I'm not an expert but it looks like a Nissan Navara to me. Police confirmed in the press conference it was not being treated as a 'hit and run'. But I also had in my mind that her death was not caused by being struck by a vehicle, though that was not stated in the press conference. I'm not sure if It's my own extrapolation or if I read it in an article somewhere. Will try and find the information to back this up but in the meantime take it with a grain of salt.
Meanwhile my theory for the whole thing is this was a planned murder though not a specifically planned target, motivated by sexual assault. Body was easily stashed in the back of the ute and disposed of in less populated forest, and phone was lobbed over the raspberry bushes into the dam while he took a 'pit stop' on the side of the road on the way there/back (hence dog detected a scent). I imagine police narrowed their original search via phone signals, crossmatched with her smartwatch data, plus dashcam or similar from other vehicles in the area at the time. Unsure how they landed specifically on murder as a charge rather than kidnapping or manslaughter, because VicPol don't use cadaver dogs as far as I'm aware. Unless there is a chemical test to determine the presence of cadaverine? Perhaps there is and that is what they found in the vehicle as evidence because that'd be fairly damning if so. Again, this is all my speculation and opinion only.
Oh, and:
Is there a clever bunny out there who can tell us what angle the Sun was from the horizon at 5pm back on that day?
The sun was at 40° at 5pm that day in Buninyong, with azimuth of 281°, according to
Geodetic Calculator 
Away from intrusive eyes…
www.legalaid.vic.gov.au
www.meaa.org
