Current Trial Russell Hill & Carol Clay - Wonnangatta *Pilot Greg Lynn Pleads Not Guilty to Murder

[Kurve]

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On the Greg Lynn committal proceedings Crown Prosecutor Mr Dickie said 'It is clear hopefully from the document, and if it's not clear from the document it's clear hopefully from the charges put before the court, that it is alleged of course that the accused acted with murderous intent when he allegedly killed the two victims.'

 

[zedx]

Possible. Then what did he do next?

No idea, but its one scenario which answers why/how he took them both out.

 

[Kurve]

Specialist Victorian police officers have descended on the small country town of Dargo to continue a painstaking search for the remains of two campers who went missing in Victoria’s high country.

The officers arrived in Dargo on Monday as authorities scaled up their search for Russell Hill and Carol Clay who have been missing for 20 months. Police believe they were killed and last week charged Greg Lynn, 55, with two counts of murder.

The dense bushland north of the remote alpine town is less than 40km from where the couple were camping when they went missing in March 2020.

Monday’s search involved missing persons squad detectives, search and rescue crews and Victoria Police’s major crime scene unit.

When announcing last week that Lynn had been charged, assistant commissioner Bob Hill said the police investigation was “far from over”.

Police want to speak to anyone who was in the Wonnangatta area about that time, including “campers, 4x4 day-trippers, hunters, fishermen or trail bike riders”, regardless of whether they saw or heard anything.

Specialist police join search for remains of Russell Hill and Carol Clay in Victorian alps

Painstaking effort to locate two campers continues in rugged bushland north of Dargo after murder charges laid

www.theguardian.com

 

[Wombot]

Doesn't seem the type.

I think it possible that he and RH may have had a mutual disagreement and neither backed down, and CC was merely a witness who the accused wanted to silence.

 

[Pamcake1]

Perp fled the area near midnight. If the altercation/ killing happened around 7.30 he could have driven them up in the victims car to Grant HA, bury them and return to the "Gatta around 11.30. Set the fire to the campsite then flee in his own vehicle.

What and re-tie the awning to the car again & put the esky back under the car. That doesn't make any sense.

 

[maggiethecat]

Can someone please remind me where he was witnessed turning his car because the track was closed due to fires?

 

[outspace]

Can someone please remind me where he was witnessed turning his car because the track was closed due to fires?

This person saw this person see this person. Is how i remember it being reported not just once but it varied, plus a 20-30 turning reference. Others have said there is a turning point further back from the gated area.

I still wonder if it was narrowed down due to missing vehicle parts on what seems a rough road.

 

[maggiethecat]

This person saw this person see this person. Is how i remember it being reported not just once but it varied, plus a 20-30 turning reference. Others have said there is a turning point further back from the gated area.

I still wonder if it was narrowed down due to missing vehicle parts on what seems a rough road.

Where exactly was the gated area?

 

[SJ]

Is it just me, or is the 4WD on Google Street view (middle) not "blue"?

 

[MiguelM]

Is it just me, or is the 4WD on Google Street view (middle) not "blue"?

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Looks like the lighting/colours darker in the bottom pic. Bushes are darker too.

 

[BG32]

Ain't no one getting run over fatally without leaving marks and DNA on the ground

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Ain't no one getting run over fatally without leaving marks and DNA on the ground

Unless they were IN the tent. Which could be why it was burnt.

 

[Zidane98]

Hope the coppers find something soon to provide closure for the families. They seemed confident about their "specific" information. I guess they can't confirm whether they got that info from a confession from the alleged peror other means for legal reasons.

Someone mentioned the Hema device on the dashboard of his vehicle. Thats a good shout for recovering location information on the night of the disappearance if he was using it.

 

[SJ]

Looks like the lighting/colours darker in the bottom pic. Bushes are darker too.

Not sure if it's just me but I can't see any blue in any of the photos, looks charcoal or black.

 

[outspace]

Not sure if it's just me but I can't see any blue in any of the photos, looks charcoal or black.

Primer

 

[Kurve]

Can someone please remind me where he was witnessed turning his car because the track was closed due to fires?

Myrtleford.

"Detectives have also been given information that a vehicle attempted to leave the valley late at night on the evening of Friday 20 March, but the Myrtleford gate was closed because of the bushfires, meaning that the driver had to make a complicated turn back in the direction from which they had come.
"That same vehicle is also spotted on two cameras at the top of Mount Hotham, consistent with where a vehicle would exit the valley given the closure of the Myrtleford gate."

'Significant breakthrough' in search for missing Victorian campers

www.9news.com.au

 

[footscray1973]

Not sure if it's just me but I can't see any blue in any of the photos, looks charcoal or black.

Didn't one neighbour reference blue when discussing the respray?

 

[Terrafirma]

Perp fled the area near midnight. If the altercation/ killing happened around 7.30 he could have driven them up in the victims car to Grant HA, bury them and return to the "Gatta around 11.30. Set the fire to the campsite then flee in his own vehicle.

What and re-tie the awning to the car again & put the esky back under the car. That doesn't make any sense.

There's no way he'd return to the scene. He killed them, loaded them into trailer in sleeping bags, set fire to the campsite and then buried or placed them in their final resting place. We also know the bush worker saw Hill flying the drone so it was still light when this occurred. The bush worker thought it was rude of Hill to fly the drone over his campsite. So he must have also flown over Lynn's campsite which was on the riverbank in the best spot. So the murders would have occurred just going into dark or thereabouts with Lynn leaving around midnight or just after as witnesses confirmed.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Not sure if it's just me but I can't see any blue in any of the photos, looks charcoal or black.

It was a rather faded blue-grey colour, a bit like denim.

 

[#1_pigeonracer]

How far from the camp is the Myrtleford gate? and I assume there is a camp near that gate if someone heard the complicated turn?

 

[Terrafirma]

Is it just me, or is the 4WD on Google Street view (middle) not "blue"?

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These are shitty low res photos and there's a chance some form of reflection going on so the Blue color could look different IMO.

 

[footscray1973]

How far from the camp is the Myrtleford gate? and I assume there is a camp near that gate if someone heard the complicated turn?

Sorry, there's a lot of detail posted in this forum, but I think Kurve or someone who knows the area posted a map at some point which included the gate, but I might be mistaken (various maps posted over many pages now).

 

[juggers]

How far from the camp is the Myrtleford gate? and I assume there is a camp near that gate if someone heard the complicated turn?

The road which follows the Buffalo River north to Myrtleford was closed due to bushfires, forcing the driver to perform a 20 to 30-point turn on the narrow road. A roadside camera spotted the 4WD on the Great Alpine Rd at Mount Hotham after sunrise the next morning. The car eventually exited at Dargo.

I cant remember the exact spot the closed gate was. Someone here will be able to answer for me

 

[juggers]

Wonder if he thought he was being discreet by starting to park around the side behind the tree.



Also the car was painted from white to blue sometime between May and September 2017

 

[Badd0g]

The road which follows the Buffalo River north to Myrtleford was closed due to bushfires, forcing the driver to perform a 20 to 30-point turn on the narrow road. A roadside camera spotted the 4WD on the Great Alpine Rd at Mount Hotham after sunrise the next morning. The car eventually exited at Dargo.

I cant remember the exact spot the closed gate was. Someone here will be able to answer for me

Camp - yellow, Gate - red

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

Camp - yellow, Gate - red

Is that the gate just below the helipad? I can't think of another up that way. I normally go in via Zeka then leave to the south