Australia Samantha Murphy, 51, last seen leaving her property to go for a run in the Canadian State Forest, Ballarat 100km NW of Melbourne, 4 Feb 2024

[Awakening]

Diggers Rest is about an hour from Ballarat. Reports of a large police presence. Not sure if it’s in anyway related to this case.

 

[DK007]

Since missing persons took over it’s gotten very quiet.

It usually does. Very little information will come out unless she is found. Look how quiet the police were with Carol Clay and Russell Hill, Karen Ristevski William Terrell and Erin Patterson !

 

[green leaves]

Diggers Rest is about an hour from Ballarat. Reports of a large police presence. Not sure if it’s in anyway related to this case.

There was a major car accident that way. With 2 survivors in hospital, under police guard.

Diggers Rest fatal crash

Diggers Rest fatal crash.

7news.com.au

 

[Awakening]

There was a major car accident that way. With 2 survivors in hospital, under police guard.

Diggers Rest fatal crash

Diggers Rest fatal crash.

7news.com.au

Oh that’s terribly sad.

 

[Kaykedi]

Okay, this is probably a case of pareidolia and a sign I need to go bed but - in the car headlight there looks like there’s a reflection of a man’s face?

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I see it too. Just looked at a similar photo of Samantha and the vehicle on 7NEWS and it looks different again. Sorry I can't link it, but it's really easy to find

 

[iamshadow21]

Okay, this is probably a case of pareidolia and a sign I need to go bed but - in the car headlight there looks like there’s a reflection of a man’s face?

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Pretty sure that's the bit of the housing that focuses the headlights on the road.

MOO

 

[imstilla.grandma]

I see it too. Just looked at a similar photo of Samantha and the vehicle on 7NEWS and it looks different again. Sorry I can't link it, but it's really easy to find

Search for Missing Ballarat East Woman Samantha Murphy

7news.com.au

 

[indopulau]

Could be a silly a question/ thought but if you’re out running with an Apple Watch - would you not leave your phone at home?

Second thought - does the 5pm ping fall into the range of where the family home is located?

 

[benowens]

Any chance that the car crash is linked?

 

[Awakening]

Pretty sure that's the bit of the housing that focuses the headlights on the road.

MOO

Thanks, I should definitely go to bed then.

 

[Tealgrove]

Interesting family and friends have been ominously quiet - can only think this will change as the days pass by!

Funny that you should post this. I was thinking the same.

I’m wondering what may have been going on in Samantha’s life other than starting to run again.

I’m just trying to wrap my head around a middle aged woman, who has just started running again, heading out for 10-20 km run in the heat, knowing that she needed to be at a brunch by 11:00 am.

Something isn’t sitting quite right for me.

MOO

 

[LeahBee]

Since there still seems to be confusion:

The footage of a woman jogging is NOT SM.

Investigator confirmed reporters question at press hearing SM DID leave the house that morning

 

[followtheleader]

Couple of things I hadn’t noticed before - 1. Is there something under her left arm in the still? And is there a patch in the light that seems to be an odd colour? Like it has been edited?

 

[DRT]

There was a major car accident that way. With 2 survivors in hospital, under police guard.

Diggers Rest fatal crash

Diggers Rest fatal crash.

7news.com.au

That car accident wasn't today.

 

[iamshadow21]

Couple of things I hadn’t noticed before - 1. Is there something under her left arm in the still? And is there a patch in the light that seems to be an odd colour? Like it has been edited?

Just looks like a drape in the cloth catching the light, to me. Like the fullness and folds of the fabric at the neckline, it's the same under the arms. It's a style.

MOO

 

[Kaykedi]

Couple of things I hadn’t noticed before - 1. Is there something under her left arm in the still? And is there a patch in the light that seems to be an odd colour? Like it has been edited?

Is it part of her bra/strapless bra?

 

[Nikynoo]

I feel like that’s something you say once they’re found, all my focus would be on finding my wife and urging people to come forward with information. Food is an afterthought

Umm, I'm sure if I went missing the first thought my husband would have is, ‘what will I have for tea?’ And ‘who will make it for me.’

 

[Nikynoo]

On the morning Ms Murphy vanished, she was captured on her own CCTV system wearing a maroon/brown singlet and black half-length leggings.

She was later spotted on a neighbour's camera running past their property about 7.16am on Eureka Street in Ballarat East, near the intersection of Warrenheip Rd.

That was quarter of an hour after she began her Sunday run.

It showed her running northeast towards Yankee Flat Road.

Ms O'Loughlan said she did not believe her friend would have ventured into the rugged area where her phone was last 'pinged'.

'There's no way she would have run that far. Absolutely no way. I'm confident of that,' she said.

'I believe she was going out for brunch that morning so I believe she would have been home by 9 or 10am,' she said.

Date missing mum Samantha Murphy would NOT have missed

Missing mum Samantha Murphy was notably absent from her family's traditional summer holiday along Victoria's surf coast in the weeks before she vanished.

www.dailymail.co.uk

My understanding is that the second sighting was not Samantha. The first sighting at home doesn’t say she was leaving the property. It looks to me that she was picking up and bagging doggy doo doo.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Umm, I'm sure if I went missing the first thought my husband would have is, ‘what will I have for tea?’ And ‘who will make it for me.’

People did a nice thing for him and his family.
He's thanking them.
I don't see how being nice and polite and giving thanks to people is such a strange thing to do.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

People did a nice thing for him and his family.
He's thanking them.
I don't see how being nice and polite and giving thanks to people is such a strange thing to do.

Normally, neither would I. WS users see it frequently. Perhaps some aren’t referring specifically to the food but his thank you announcement as a whole, accompanied with that great big smile…