No one has come forward with claims of him being heavily intoxicated that morning, or even the evening preceding. Lots of stuff about New Years Eve, etc, but not that Saturday. Rumours of attending an 80th birthday party, but no definitive claims of 'highly intoxicated' etc on either alcohol or drugs. His actions tend to discard the idea of 'heavily intoxicated'.. not to say, he did not make a colossal error. He did, but it must have been a subtle error, yet all encompassing for VICPOL to have such emphatic claims. Murdered, by him, at this place at this time.
And he had to get rid of the body as soon as he killed her, which was, according to police , 8am, at Mt Clear, can't leave a dead body of a woman on the track in broad daylight, anyone else could be running thru at any time... so he had to move her body at around 8am to the place where he eventually left the body. VICPOL was very definite about When she was killed, and Where she was killed. The body must have been removed at around 8am from Mt Clear. To where. not known at this time, but not far away, ... as in not as far as Melbourne, or Ararat, but local.