Samantha Murphy Ballarat * Patrick Orren Stephenson Charged With Murder

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The Murder of Rebecca Young - Ballarat

The Murder of Hannah McGuire - Ballarat * Lachie Young

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Lachie Young

Age

25

Ht

189cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.5

3star

K

6.4

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

1.8

4star

MG

220.3

3star

D

9.0

2star

K

5.5

2star

HB

3.5

2star

M

1.0

1star

T

2.0

3star

MG

210.0

3star

D

11.2

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.8

4star

MG

219.6

4star

charged



Allegedly

 

[Badd0g]

In this photo she isn’t wearing a running belt. Where would she put her phone? I’m not an expert but most running belts and arm bands won’t fit a phone when it is inside a case. I have to take it out of the case to put it in my running belt or the armband if I use it. Did she definitely have a phone on her, or just the watch?

Flipbelt would easily fit a phone in a case and could have been under her top

 

[leon123]

Big risk of damaging or compromising whatever evidence might be there. They've waited nearly two months - they can wait a day or two for it to stop raining. Wouldn't it make more sense to bring in cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar before randomly destroying vegetation?

im guessing gorze and blackberry bushes... hard to access see what is in/under

 

[31550]

im guessing gorze and blackberry bushes... hard to access see what is in/under

From the photos it looks like maybe they needed to excavate a path from the road to the dam, so they could get vehicles with forensic equipment close to the dam without bush-bashing?

 

[Kurve]

 

[Kurve]

 

[Kurve]

An excavator as well.

 

[31550]

Any locals recognise this property?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

That dam looks more like a pond.

 

[Couch Coach]

Any locals recognise this property?

On Wednesday, police conducted a small-scale search along Slaughterhouse Road and Buninyong-Mt Mercer Road, a couple of kilometres south of Buninyong.

 

[Golden_6]

That dam looks more like a pond.

It looks tiny. Perhaps just a quick dump of any valuables/items of interest by the accused?

 

[FR0GGY]

Any locals recognise this property?

Or these people

 

[jason_recliner]

This is potentially HUGE news! Had my fingers crossed all day. Getting a cramp.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

I think they are getting closer to retrieving Samantha. Someone is supplying the police with information

POS talking to relative and cell bugged.

 

[Badd0g]

From a few photos in reports it seems they are searching these two dams

 

[annawinter608]

From the photos it doesn't look like a 'good' location to dump a body. Perhaps the "tech sniffer" dogs detected the phone? Or maybe there was a tipoff which focussed them on that location?

Channel Nine are reporting that there is footage of a sniffer dog digging the phone out of the mud and then being surrounded by high-fiving police.


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[Run n Spread]

Looks very much like a staged photo at least. How would the cameraman be in place just as the cop picked up the phone? And surely it wasn't just lying there on a flat piece of ground? I imagine they dug up bushes, and then sifted through the excavated material to find the phone - there is no rubble or vegetation in the picture.

Staged as in they're listening and watching for a reaction. Why not find Log and sift through evidence. That photo will be front and centre on the news and papers tomorrow imo. Trying to flush someone (else imo) out

 

[annawinter608]

Divers trawling dam after phone found in search for missing Ballarat mother

www.9news.com.au

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[Kurve]

They're using a golden and a black labrador. Beautiful work, good doggos!

 

[31550]

Looks like police have ascertained that it's SMs phone. Haven't said so publicly but why else would they continue to search the location?

 

[faible]

Looks like police have ascertained that it's SMs phone. Haven't said so publicly but why else would they continue to search the location?

I assume we'll get some kind of press conference / release tomorrow summarising what they've found?

 

[Underarrest_]

They're using a golden and a black labrador. Beautiful work, good doggos!

Totally agree. Have had one of each. Very smart!

 

[Catch]

Staged as in they're listening and watching for a reaction. Why not find Log and sift through evidence. That photo will be front and centre on the news and papers tomorrow imo. Trying to flush someone (else imo) out

I think most of the searches have been staged and making sure the media know on what they want to tell

 

[Catch]

Totally agree. Have had one of each. Very smart!

Beautiful dogs

 

[DirtyLeeds]

This is in a direct line to where my son and I discovered some 'unusual' items beside the Yarrawee River, it's within 500m of where I have been saying her remains could be since Feburary. Reckon they're really close to finding her. By the way that road is one we travel all the time to get to our vineyard... you could literally pull over get out of the car and within one minute be driving again, the dam is ten metres off the road!!

 

[leon123]

Any locals recognise this property?

yep, its a totally different area than previous searches etc. Its quite populated (rural sense) and very open country - all private land