Australia Samantha Murphy, 51, last seen leaving her property to go for a run in the Canadian State Forest, Ballarat, 4 Feb 2024 *Arrest* #9

[wallyworld]

I like to think that VICPOL about once a week drag in their scruffiest constable, deck him out in St VInnies gear, and , on the promise of double pay, insert him into the Remand Center, as a Lonely Burglar From Ballarat, having him slither up to Stephenson for smoko. and a chat. Next week, different scruffy sent in.

no smoko allowed in Vic Prisons. Smoking was banned in 2015

 

[Dotta]

it is very muddy on the banks which IMO looks as though water has been pumped from it recently.

Wow!
How interesting!
No coincidences it seems.
Much activity behind the scenes.

JMO

 

[JLZ]

no smoko allowed in Vic Prisons. Smoking was banned in 2015

What a good idea! When will they think of banning other drugs?

 

[Trooper]

no smoko allowed in Vic Prisons. Smoking was banned in 2015

a metaphorical smoko.

 

[Whatson]

Wow!
How interesting!
No coincidences it seems.
Much activity behind the scenes.

JMO

You can see a pump on the dam. The motocross tracks are freshly groomed. Part of keeping tracks in good condition means irrigating them. Also helps keep dust down

 

[Dotta]

You can see a pump on the dam. The motocross tracks are freshly groomed. Part of keeping tracks in good condition means irrigating them. Also helps keep dust down

Phew!
Motorbikes seem to be "somebody's" Nemesis

 

[Dr Samoht]

You can see a pump on the dam. The motocross tracks are freshly groomed. Part of keeping tracks in good condition means irrigating them. Also helps keep dust down

I believe the motorcross tracks are on the other separate southern property which has its own two dams.

 

[Rocket333]

“But Seven News reported on Thursday night that husband Mick Murphy had confirmed to it that his wife’s iPhone, credit cards and licence had been discovered in the mud at the small dam.”

“Whoever wished to be rid of the phone needed only to pull up on the side of the road and toss it over the roadside fence.”

Notes:
1. Phone wallet is intact with phone & cards still inside. Phone is not removed and not presumably deliberately smashed/destroyed.

2. If thrown over the fence into the dam, that could sound opportunistic and may have been decided simply whilst driving up that road and sighting the dam opportunity. The dam then would’ve been much more full too. What about any concern in this scenario with being seen?

Police hope for a breakthrough on Samantha Murphy

The first physical clue to the missing Ballarat mother’s fate emerges from the mud - a mobile phone.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Dotta]

"Retired senior homicide detective Charlie Bezzina
has warned police

not to celebrate too early

as her alleged killer could have ditched her phone to throw police 'off the scent'.

Mr Bezzina told the Herald Sun
it was possible the alleged killer may have left the phone in the dam while discarding her body in a completely different spot.

He added that they may have also dumped the phone some time after she disappeared.

'We don't know when that phone was dumped in there,
it is not unusual for offenders to keep items for a while, especially mobile phones … for all we know

that might have been discarded just weeks' ago,'

he told the publication.

Often offenders go back and do things, keep the phone somewhere or with them,
and then dump it later on.

'And that's where they'll get any evidence against him,
if it's been pinging …
so not unusual at all for it to be dumped in a separate location (to the body).'

He added it 'doesn't make sense' that the phone was found on Wednesday without prior intelligence as it would have been submerged underwater."

Cop warns investigators could still be far from finding missing mum

Ms Murphy vanished without a trace after she left her home on Eureka Street in Ballarat East, Victoria, on the morning of February 4.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Dotta]

"Retired senior homicide detective Charlie Bezzina
has warned police

not to celebrate too early

as her alleged killer could have ditched her phone to throw police 'off the scent'.

Mr Bezzina told the Herald Sun
it was possible the alleged killer may have left the phone in the dam while discarding her body in a completely different spot.

He added that they may have also dumped the phone some time after she disappeared.

'We don't know when that phone was dumped in there,
it is not unusual for offenders to keep items for a while, especially mobile phones … for all we know

that might have been discarded just weeks' ago,'

he told the publication.

Often offenders go back and do things, keep the phone somewhere or with them,
and then dump it later on.

'And that's where they'll get any evidence against him,
if it's been pinging …
so not unusual at all for it to be dumped in a separate location (to the body).'

He added it 'doesn't make sense' that the phone was found on Wednesday without prior intelligence as it would have been submerged underwater."

Cop warns investigators could still be far from finding missing mum

Ms Murphy vanished without a trace after she left her home on Eureka Street in Ballarat East, Victoria, on the morning of February 4.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

Re the interview above

I agree that pinging phone at 5 pm might have been
a 'red herring' -
I even wrote about it months ago.

That the victim might have been concealed far away from the phone.

I'm curious
what or WHO
led Police to Enfield State Park,
and it seems it was a wild goose chase.

And what or WHO led them to the dam to find the phone?

I guess there are hundreds anonymous tips
and they are being checked one by one.

JMO

 

[Knitty]

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