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

[JLZ]

When police state they have found "SOME items of interest", surely they don't mean the phone, the case and the cards inside? Would they be seen as "some" or collectively be "one" item? I really hope they found more than that, perhaps a weapon of some kind, her watch, earbuds, piece of clothing etc

What do my fellow websleuths think?

No. I think that's the "some", the phone, the wallet and its other contents.

 

[SLouTh]

News update

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[TootsieFootsie]

"Some" could be the phone, wallet, contents but my first thought was that they found other items of interest as well.

 

[SLouTh]

No. I think that's the "some", the phone, the wallet and its other contents.

I tend to agree with you here ….

Some" could be the phone, wallet, contents but my first thought was they found other items of interest as well.

I have to admit that I think if other significant items were found yesterday, it would have been leaked by a news outlet by now ….

Like, for example, how they told us about the Bankcards etc

Edit to add .. I think the Police had some specific intel that related specifically to the location of the phone …. They found it earlier than expected, and then shut up shop ….
They may have even been able to somehow triangulate the location of the phone by now ???

IMO

 

[Marg944]

No. I think that's the "some", the phone, the wallet and its other contents.

We need to get Troops to sprinkle you with some of her incurable optimism…. We want more items than just the contents of the phone case!! Hehe

 

[SLouTh]

Heads Up for 7 News …. Allegedly another search is happening …

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[drsleuth]

I wonder if the police have been able to get some kind of tracking from PS's car??

 

[TootsieFootsie]

We need to get Troops to sprinkle you with some of her incurable optimism…. We want more items than just the contents of the phone case!! Hehe

I have always been a glass half full person.
A friend used to call me Pollyanna because I was always trying to find something good in even not so good situations.

 

[SLouTh]

Heads Up for 7 News …. Allegedly another search is happening …

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[SLouTh]

I wonder if the police have been able to get some kind of tracking from PS's car??

Or his phone perhaps … ???

IMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

One of the recent articles said that PS is still not cooperatng.

 

[JLZ]

We need to get Troops to sprinkle you with some of her incurable optimism…. We want more items than just the contents of the phone case!! Hehe

No, Trooper and I do very well, but we'll maintain greater than sprinkling distance, thank you.

 

[BGirl88]

I have a few questions which I don’t think have been answered yet… and maybe won’t be for sometime… (apologies if these questions have been raised already).

Do we know whether the owners of this property / dam contacted the police after finding an item of interest, or was the item discovered during a police search?

If during a police search, what led police to this specific location? It is indeed very specific.

I wonder if PS has started talking to someone in remand… or if someone else disposed of the phone.

If he threw the phone out of the car while driving, I feel that the accused acted more recklessly, as opposed to this being a pre-meditated murder.

If he entered the property with the intention of throwing the phone into the dam, I get the sense that the accused has perhaps thought this through a little more…

Just some of my rambling thoughts, all IMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

It's ok I was born "sprinkled" by the optimism fairy

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I have a few questions which I don’t think have been answered yet… and maybe won’t be for sometime… (apologies if these questions have been raised already).

All those thoughts are in my mind too.

 

[SLouTh]

Heads Up for 7 News …. Allegedly another search is happening …

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The News Article is now up ….

New ‘targeted’ search in area where Samantha Murphy vanished

‘Samantha’s family have been advised of the search.’

7news.com.au

 

[BoysTown]

7 news said Mick Murphy confirmed it was Sam’s phone which inclued credit cards and license.

 

[Dotta]

"Police found a phone in the mud. ​

Now they hope for a breakthrough in the Samantha Murphy search.​

They hope the instrument is not so badly corroded it retains the data that might reveal the path of its last journey;
the hours or days between whatever befell Murphy and her phone’s trip to the dam.

Even a badly damaged mobile phone almost always retains a memory, according to forensic experts, often securely lodged in the cybersphere’s cloud.

As to how police came to search the dam
– one of many in the rolling farmland south of the village of Buninyong –
there was no information forthcoming.

The occupants of a nearby farmhouse expressed no wish to speak to reporters or be filmed.

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."

Samantha Murphy: Is a phone in the mud a breakthrough on the mystery of missing Ballarat mother?

amp-theage-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[BoysTown]

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[Cliff Hardy]

One of the recent articles said that PS is still not cooperatng.

Hopefully he is stewing and will eventually break.