Found Deceased Australia - Stephanie Scott, 26, Leeton, NSW, 5 April 2015 - #1 *Arrests*

[Belz]

Good point! I dont think it was in the garage. But i do think it was somewhere other than where it was found. And i think wherever it was is where she is. Im not convinced shes in the canal. But your right, very risky to move it after MSM reports to be on the look out for it. I think if it was always there in that paddock then someone would have seen it earlier. Not exactly inconspicuous placement.

Agreed! I just can't imagine a bright red car being missed in the search when it is in such an obvious place..

 

[Eloise]

Just to be clear, they aren't still looking for the white ute. They have it. It was the vehicle first seized. They just want to know if anyone saw it during the period after Stephanie went missing.

A photograph was also released on Friday of a white ute police seized as part of the murder investigation.

"Police are appealing for anyone who saw this vehicle between Sunday and Wednesday to call Leeton Police or Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000," a police statement said. They will hold a press conference at 11.30am to update the public on the investigation.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-di...-focus-turns-to-vineyard-20150410-1mhzs1.html

 

[drsleuth]

What a horrible job those police divers have

 

[fruity]

Just to be clear, they aren't still looking for the white ute. They have it. It was the vehicle first seized. They just want to know if anyone saw it during the period after Stephanie went missing.



http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-di...-focus-turns-to-vineyard-20150410-1mhzs1.html

Yep. They want to hear if anyone saw it so they can narrow down areas he may have travelled. If someone saw it in Griffith they'd start searching those areas for evidence. If someone saw it in Canowindra they'd search there. They're looking for evidence and possible crime scene locations, not the car.

 

[fruity]

Police divers have pulled what appears to be a laptop from an irrigation canal near Leeton during their search for school teacher Stephanie Scott.

The divers targeted the canal a few kilometres outside the NSW Riverina town after a witness reported seeing a man throw something into the water on Easter Monday.

The witness, who gave his name as Brendan, said the man appeared to be wearing a baseball cap.


http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-di...-focus-turns-to-vineyard-20150410-1mhzs1.html

 

[Eloise]

What a horrible job those police divers have

OT (kinda), but this article is really good. Not new, but its been ressurrected by the AWW site because of the case in Victoria where another three children have died in a dam. All about being a police diver, from the perspective of Victoria's first female police diver.

Police diver tells: The horror of finding a little body in a sunken car

 

[andyroo]

Yep, yep and yep!
Agree totally. Although im not 100% convinced he got to her at the school.

They have declared the school a crime scene. It makes the most sense. He saw her car there, he would have known who the car belonged to, and clearly he wanted to attack her. She was at work doing last minute handover stuff. He comes into the office/classroom and attacks her sometime after 1pm. Drives her car to the farm and throws items in the channel. Walks back to school (take about an hour), cleans the crime scene and takes her body somewhere in his ute. Burns the body and either buries it or puts it in river. Heads back home at 7:20PM, washes all of his clothes and discusses how busy he's been with his neighbors.

Leeton is a bit of a ghost town on sundays, but especially around easter. I went for a drive on saturday evening and the town was totally empty.. it's not surprising no one saw him do all of this.

 

[Angeline]

The red car could've been moved at night. Maybe in the early hours of the morning.

One thing I've been thinking about, that may be relevant (or it could be totally irrelevant):

Why did the family move to the Netherlands? And then come back with hardly anything (as posted earlier in the thread, the townspeople helped out the family when they moved to Leeton).

It kind of seems like there could have been something hasty about it? Not accusing the family of anything, but maybe something to do with the accused.

Of course, people move overseas all the time. Just wondering if there's something in it.

 

[Fence Sitter]

The red car could've been moved at night. Maybe in the early hours of the morning.

One thing I've been thinking about, that may be relevant (or it could be totally irrelevant):

Why did the family move to the Netherlands? And then come back with hardly anything (as posted earlier in the thread, the townspeople helped out the family when they moved to Leeton).

It kind of seems like there could have been something hasty about it? Not accusing the family of anything, but maybe something to do with the accused.

Of course, people move overseas all the time. Just wondering if there's something in it.

I had the same thought.

 

[Fence Sitter]

They have declared the school a crime scene. It makes the most sense. He saw her car there, he would have known who the car belonged to, and clearly he wanted to attack her. She was at work doing last minute handover stuff. He comes into the office/classroom and attacks her sometime after 1pm. Drives her car to the farm and throws items in the channel. Walks back to school (take about an hour), cleans the crime scene and takes her body somewhere in his ute. Burns the body and either buries it or puts it in river. Heads back home at 7:20PM, washes all of his clothes and discusses how busy he's been with his neighbors.

Leeton is a bit of a ghost town on sundays, but especially around easter. I went for a drive on saturday evening and the town was totally empty.. it's not surprising no one saw him do all of this.

I thought that was only because of where she was last seen.

I grew up in a small town so i know how it can seem like a ghost town on weekends and public holidays. Im not surprised noone seems to have seen anything either.

 

[drsleuth]

OT (kinda), but this article is really good. Not new, but its been ressurrected by the AWW site because of the case in Victoria where another three children have died in a dam. All about being a police diver, from the perspective of Victoria's first female police diver.

Police diver tells: The horror of finding a little body in a sunken car

Thanks Eloise. I read that book a few months ago. The police divers were here in my local area looking for another missing person ( Carly McBride....still missing :-( ) & they had encountered huge leeches which impeded their search. Horrible stuff!

 

[catswhiskers]

They have declared the school a crime scene. It makes the most sense. He saw her car there, he would have known who the car belonged to, and clearly he wanted to attack her. She was at work doing last minute handover stuff. He comes into the office/classroom and attacks her sometime after 1pm. Drives her car to the farm and throws items in the channel. Walks back to school (take about an hour), cleans the crime scene and takes her body somewhere in his ute. Burns the body and either buries it or puts it in river. Heads back home at 7:20PM, washes all of his clothes and discusses how busy he's been with his neighbors.

Leeton is a bit of a ghost town on sundays, but especially around easter. I went for a drive on saturday evening and the town was totally empty.. it's not surprising no one saw him do all of this.

After reading a few days of theorising here, all the different possibilities start to muddle my brain. The car was spotted early yesterday (Thurs) and am I wrong in recalling that it hadn't been seen in that same location in the days prior?

I think possibly VS did have the house to himself over the long weekend - the other occupants had returned by the time police came knocking on Wednesday evening.
I also see that the laptop found a little while ago is red - friends and colleagues would already know if Stephanie's was red or not. Things are happening and being found rather quickly now - each new news update seems to contain more information.

Sydney Morning Herald - Vineyard Search

 

[Angeline]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-of-a-burnt-body/story-fni0cx12-1227297895294

"A neighbour across the road from the canal said he saw a man dump an item in the water on Monday afternoon."

“It was about 3, probably close to 4pm. He had a baseball cap and glasses on. “He was in a Hilux, a white Hilux. We rang the police on Wednesday when we heard what happened.

Ughh, so if this is Stephanie's laptop, he could've been dumping things on Monday right before he came home and was arrested by police That worries me - how long was she alive?

The laptop looks red in this photo:

Taken from http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-di...-focus-turns-to-vineyard-20150410-1mhzs1.html

 

[Fence Sitter]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-of-a-burnt-body/story-fni0cx12-1227297895294

"A neighbour across the road from the canal said he saw a man dump an item in the water on Monday afternoon."

“It was about 3, probably close to 4pm. He had a baseball cap and glasses on. “He was in a Hilux, a white Hilux. We rang the police on Wednesday when we heard what happened.

Ughh, so if this is Stephanie's laptop, he could've been dumping things on Monday right before he came home and was arrested by police That worries me - how long was she alive?

The laptop looks red in this photo:

Taken from http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-di...-focus-turns-to-vineyard-20150410-1mhzs1.html

Telling his neighbours he had been very busy....... Ugh makes me sick.

 

[they'll get you]

It was originally reported that the police were speaking to 2 other members of the household when VS arrived home and they arrested him on the spot.

There must have been a confession or absolute evidence. Did the family have their suspicions?

 

[metapraxis02]

It is little comfort to those directly impacted, but gut feel is that this is going to be resolved very quickly. The (alleged) perpetrator seems to have made a lot of mistakes covering his tracks. I suspect it was either a spur of the moment thing (and he has been unable to "work under pressure") or he is of relatively low intelligence. Possibly both. Dumping anything small and easily disposable in a waterway is beyond stupid. A laptop could be buried in a tiny hole pretty much anywhere and likely never found (or at least not for years).

 

[Eloise]

I think the same, metapraxis02. He has not done this well at all. Either this was all entirely unplanned, or he planned it but very badly because he's of limited intellect. I think it might be unplanned, plus he's also not that smart.

 

[Humdinger]

Local gossip is that they've found her body, not sure how accurate? Maybe Chinese whispers mixed that up with laptop?

 

[Adrianna]

Local gossip is that they've found her body, not sure how accurate? Maybe Chinese whispers mixed that up with laptop?

I hope they have found her body, what that family are going though at the moment I cant even begin to grasp, remembering the time leading up to our close family wedding that days of joy before it, now that families joy has turned into this, I truly hope they have or will find her so her family can bury her with the dignity she was denied in death.

 

[Belz]

IMO either he hasn't confessed and that is why he isn't saying where he put her (because that would admit guilt) or he is getting some kind of sick thrill out of not saying where she is.

I guess if that is true Humdinger, it will only be a matter of time before we hear about it on MSM.