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

[SLouTh]

Update from Victoria Police

https://twitter.com/x/status/1795697356085866564

 

[HoneyBunOne]

Crime scene officers soon arrived at the property after a sniffer dog drew about a dozen police to the dam’s banks.

A television camera captured a pair of police officers then donning masks, laying down a yellow evidence marker and photographing a phone.
Shortly after 4pm, a police diver entered the dam to search for Murphy’s body.

Snipped …

Paywalled for some, but also free ..

Phone found in fresh search for Samantha Murphy’s body

A police source, speaking anonymously owing to the sensitivity of the investigation, is confident the phone belonged to the 51-year-old mother.

www.theage.com.au

Divers entering the damn at 4pm, when sunset is 5.15pm is very promising in my opinion. I'm not sure how deep the dam is currently, but an article mentioned it had receded several metres over recent times. Perhaps it's not that deep that they can search the entire dam before sunset? Fingers crossed.

 

[Trooper]

7news: water levels in the dam are at the lowest in a while.

Maybe the items were spotted by a farmer or passer-by?

Goes a long way in explaining why the dogs did not originally pick up scent. This goes for Samantha 's body, as well .. underwater, underground... I don't know how much rain Ballarat shire has had these last few months, but not much, I am guessing, , winter rains have not begun, everyone's dam is a bit down .

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I wonder what made them try the sniffer dogs there in the first place.
Maybe someone came forward after finding something.
Or a person is talking.

Or someone's drone spotted something.

All just my guessing.

 

[SLouTh]

The diver entering the water …

https://twitter.com/x/status/1795697316051157419

Photo added ..

It’s very close to a house and shed …
ABC News

 

[TootsieFootsie]

We' re all waiting here at WS with bated breath.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Wow it looks like a very small, very shallow damn.

 

[SouthAussie]

The diver entering the water …

https://twitter.com/x/status/1795697316051157419

ABC News

Just a small dam .. now. After our low-rain/no-rain summer and autumn.
If the police feel they are onto something positive, they might search even after the sun goes down. Put up some lights.

imo

 

[Trooper]

Wow it looks like a very small, very shallow damn.

and very close to someone's shed.....or is that a house?...

 

[wallyworld]

The diver entering the water …

https://twitter.com/x/status/1795697316051157419

Photo added ..

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It’s very close to a house and shed …
ABC News

Interesting to see the house in the background

 

[SLouTh]

and very close to someone's shed.....or is that a house?...

Both I think Troop … a house (red brick) and a shed ….

IMO

 

[wallyworld]

Interesting to see the house in the background

I just zoomed in on the house and there is what looks like a lady and child at the window watching on

 

[Sarti]

I just zoomed in on the house and there is what looks like a lady and child at the window watching on

You are right! Looks like they've got the binoculars out.

 

[Trooper]

Both I think Troop … a house (red brick) and a shed ….

IMO

Doesn't look like a horse property, the fences are not tall enough, could be goats, or sheep. .. and not isolated, it looks like the property next door is in the frame. I mean, it's not outback , bush, if you get my drift.

 

[Kemug]

I was thinking it might be part of an industrial complex, but that is definitely a house with 2 people looking out.

 

[MrsWattle]

7news: water levels in the dam are at the lowest in a while.

Maybe the items were spotted by a farmer or passer-by?

Hopefully they will Drain the dam for a proper look.

 

[Kemug]

So, if it is indeed Samantha's phone, I don't understand why that dam wasn't thoroughly searched from top to bottom earlier, however deep, given that is where it last pinged?

 

[Trooper]

So, if it is indeed Samantha's phone, I don't understand why that dam wasn't thoroughly searched from top to bottom earlier, however deep, given that is where it last pinged?

maybe it was... maybe this phone has been thrown in there recently, from somewhere else..

 

[Sarti]

So, if it is indeed Samantha's phone, I don't understand why that dam wasn't thoroughly searched from top to bottom earlier, however deep, given that is where it last pinged?

I could be wrong, but I recall reading the cell tower covered quite a large area near Buninyong, so it would be hard to narrow down a specific spot to search.

 

[wallyworld]

You are right! Looks like they've got the binocular

hardly a private location