Australia Suspected human bones found by plumber working on Phillip Island, Victoria

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Tradies unearth suspected human bones while working at Victorian home

A crime scene has been established while the remains undergo forensic testing.

www.9news.com.au

Suspected human bones found by plumber working on Phillip Island​

 

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Homicide detectives and Missing Persons Unit notified after human remains found at Phillip Island

The bones have been sent for forensic testing after they were discovered during plumbing works at a Silverleaves address.

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Sentinel Times

Homicide detectives and Missing Persons Unit notified after human remains found at Phillip Island​

Homicide detectives and the Missing Persons Unit have been notified after human remains were found in Silverleaves during plumbing works on Thursday morning.

Police are currently at a property in Hazelwood Court after the remains were discovered about 8.35am.

A crime scene has been established and detectives from the Homicide Squad have been deployed to the scene.

The Missing Persons Unit has also been notified.

The bones will undergo forensic testing and the circumstances surrounding the death of the person are yet to be determined.

EARLIER: Concerned neighbours in Hazelwood Court Silverleaves, on the eastern edge of Cowes, Phillip Island, have reported the discovery of a skull, bones and other human remains in the backyard of a property in their street.

They’ve come outside to witness a steady stream of police cars, some marked, some unmarked, making their way in and out of the usually quiet cul-de-sac off Sanders Road from early in the morning on Thursday, January 15.

“They were digging for a new septic with an excavator when they come across a skull and other bones,” said one nearby resident.

“It’s not aboriginal bones. Too recent, they say.”

Police have confirmed the gruesome find.

 

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Warning there is a blurred out photo of the skull

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/crime-scene-established-at-phillip-island-home-after-discovery-of-human-remains/news-story/4f1adc2b647485ead562a75f4b83b406

Human skull found in Phillip Island garden sparks cold case hope​

Police are investigating after a human skull was found in the garden of a suburban property on Phillip Island, southeast Victoria.
And it’s hoped the remains belong to a local woman who vanished 40 years ago, though forensic testing is still underway.

It’s understood the remains belong to an adult and are old, though police had no indication of who they belonged to on Thursday afternoon. Further testing could take weeks or months.

Crime writer Vikki Petraitis, who has extensively covered the disappearance of Phillip Island local Vivienne Cameron, was flooded with messages on Thursday.

“While the identity of the remains isn’t known at this early stage, this discovery has certainly brought up the unresolved nature of the disappearance of Vivienne Cameron back in 1986,” Ms Petraitis told news.com.au.

“While we don’t know anything more, and I imagine, won’t know for some time, everyone who has joined the quest to find Vivienne Cameron is probably reacting in the same way I am - feeling shocked and hopeful and sad.

“But regardless of who the remains belong to, it looks like a person has lost their life in suspicious circumstance and that is tragic.”

Vivienne Cameron disappeared in 1986 after she was believed to have murdered Beth Barnard, a farmhand with whom her husband was having an affair.

Police at the time accepted Ms Cameron had died by suicide after the murder, but Ms Petraitis later uncovered what she believed were inconsistencies in the evidence.

 

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Human remains found at Phillip Island holiday home

Human remains were discovered by tradespeople excavating a backyard at a holiday home in Silverleaves, Phillip Island.

7news.com.au

7News
1.58 minute video

 

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Land has only 3 publicly listed owners since 1983, middle one being a holiday rental accommodation company, current owner (presumably?) the ones interviewed by channel 7.

Any locals know what the land was before '83? Or any connected missing persons outside of the obvious (Vivienne Cameron in 1986)?

 

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There is somone else missing. Shiva Chauhan
They have a thread here. A search was conducted for him on Phillip Island where it was thought he might have been taken after he disappeared.

I did a search and posted the news about the remains find there before I decided it might be a good idea for the discovery to have it's own thread.

I had forgotten details of the Beth Barnard case and that Vivienne Cameron was still missing

 

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Thanks, I didn't know they'd searched Phillip Island for Shiva. A holiday rental would indeed be a slightly less traceable place to conceal a body, but not that uncoverable - surely in 2014 identification would've been required for bookings. May is definitely off season for tourists, it's colder, but Silverleaves gets bookings year round.

I guess now we wait for remains testing results to be announced.

 

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Casefile Podcast

The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron

Episode 1 THE WOMEN, BEFORE

Episode 1: The Women, Before - The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron

Who were Beth Barnard and Vivienne Cameron before history cast them as victim and killer? Hear their friends describe them...

phillipislandpodcast.com

 

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is fergus cameron still alive?

 

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Another possiibility, Terry Cottier.

Public urged to help solve Phillip Is murder mystery

Police are appealing for public information into the suspected murder of a missing Phillip Island man in Victoria's south-east.

www.abc.net.au

Police are appealing for public information into the suspected murder of a missing Phillip Island man in Victoria's south-east.

Terry Cottier was 34 when he was last seen leaving the Isle of White Hotel at Cowes, in Phillips Island's north, on October 10 in 2003.

 

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Possibles

From Philli[p Island

Vivienne Cameron
Terry Collier
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Shiva Chauhan. Police thought he might have been taken there. Searched, nothing.

Historical remains. I don't think it's been said officially that it's been ruled out.

Someone else who may or may not have been reported missing.