Thank you for your very informative post SEJ. .. and for taking the time to check all this out.
I believe most sleuths are basing our theories around what has been stated by the police,
Unless they're not "looking for anyone else", because they already have their suspicions/ have found who it could be. I'm not really sure though...
IMO it is completely necessary information and if he hadn't of stated it the first question reporters would have asked is are they looking for someone else in connection with this case if anything it a sign of the police knowing what kind of questions they were going to be asked by reporters
Yes I heard correctly: 3 kilometres down, one in hospital and the other stuck under a boulder 3 klms. down. This is a reality check of what a mine is and the length and extremity of a mineshaft. And our suspected perp. is an electrician by trade. MOO
any locations further out from Scotsbrun... such as closer to the foot of Mt. Buninyong? I keep thinking of the view from the house sitting house.
Nah, too messy in this instance I reckon. If there are more, the pressure in the community would surely be causing some of them to be squealing by now. I think PS acted alone and thinks that if he doesn’t give up the body he’s got the best chance of wiggling out of it. I think he also tried to hide his name out of shame and concern about his fathers (and mothers) reaction and/or possibly in a bid to spare them or protect them.
I tried to look up some mine information- obviously current mines have maps and detailed information but when you imagine people mining legally and illegally since the 1800s.... pretty mind boggling what can be underground and not recorded IMO (locals- is it typical to do any testing before building a subdivion or roads?) seems like a vast tangle of who-knows-what. IMO.
Each orange and yellow dot represents known mining activity in the Ballarat area.
Experts say it is entirely feasible illegal mining activity once took place in Ballarat, given its prominent role in the gold rush, making it impossible to now know the location of every shaft.
Mr Shaw said he had located at least 100 mineshafts during his searches in Ballarat bushland during the past five weeks and he had been down about 60
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There are countless mineshafts in the area searched for signs of Samantha Murphy. This is what it's like inside them
Raymond Shaw says he has spent the past five-and-a-half weeks uncovering and exploring disused mine shafts in a determined effort to find anything that helps locate the Ballarat mum.www.abc.net.au
I totally agree with your points. It would be out of play to involve anyone else if the alleged perp. has committed such acts. MOO
Attached article is dated 16 February 2024:I wonder if She had any strange encounters before with this accused,
maybe even noticed him a few times hanging around the paths where she would run,
maybe he has been hanging around on his motorbike
maybe even been seen near her house, and she had mentioned this to some of her family members,
whether her husband knew at the time or she might not want to concern him
She might not have thought a lot into it and probably thought, I have my Apple Watch and I will take my phone If I need to call anyone quickly
Her aunty said, she never turned her phone off, it was always hooked up,
maybe again, She was a bit nervous about what she was experiencing and made sure the phone was constantly on
She said someone SM didn't know was stalking her ?
Did her aunt know something ? Or was it just a feeling she had ?
The police would know this, maybe his vehicle has been picked up on CCTV near her house or motorbike
If this is true about the accused, and she has been previously stalked
this would make it a very calculated, targeted attack
he could have been watching her as she was about to leave for her run, and then headed ahead of her into the bush, waiting for her
But the comments from Samantha's aunt have stayed on my mind
Some interesting quotes from her aunt and uncle .....
“Somebody would have been watching her; I can’t think it would be anything else,’ Ms Murphy’s aunt Janice Robson said on Thursday.
“Someone who she didn’t even know was stalking her.”
Ms Murphy, 51, is believed to have left her Eureka St home in East Ballarat for a run into bushland at about 7am on February 4. She never returned.
Ms Murphy’s uncle and aunt Allan and Janice Robson told the Daily Mail on Thursday that foul play was the explanation that now made most sense.
The couple said the fact Ms Murphy’s phone hadn’t made communication with a mobile tower since she went missing didn’t bode well.
“She would never switch that phone off … that phone was always hooked up,” said Mr Robson.
The heartbroken family of missing mum-of-three Samantha Murphy fear she was abducted by a deranged stalker who pounced while she was on a morning run.
'I don't think it's an opportunist,' Mrs Robson said.
'I think it's been someone who has been stalking her. Someone who she didn't even know was stalking her.'
Mrs Robson suggested anyone who knew her niece knew she was a creature of habit when it came to exercise.
'She would routinely go for a run in the morning,' she said.
Both are baffled by the mystery of her phone, saying she would not have ventured as far away from her home, where police believe her mobile made its last communication with a tower.
Family of Samantha Murphy break silence on what they think happened
The heartbroken family of missing mum of three Samantha Murphy fear she was abducted by a deranged stalker who pounced while she was on a morning run.www.dailymail.co.uk
This ^^^ is a good reminder.
Thank you. I wasn't a member when you posted this and I tried very hard to download it to study but couldn't but now I can. Thank you.
Re the trash… there was a story a few years back where unfortunate new constables were gloved up searching through the local tip…for days… I can see this happening again.Trooper mentioned bins in his example of another case study. I already had it noted as a point of issue. The disposal of clothes, personal belongings including the iPhone and Apple watch (IMEI) (GPS data) may have been disposed on in rubbish bins and trash cans by the alleged perp. I have included the URL for you to search. Perhaps sleuths here may wish to provide a list of suburbs and areas that had their rubbish and trash collected 4th onwards.
I assume the LE have already sectioned off and sifted through the trash trying to locate something in this case.
MOO
Waste Collection Day — City of Ballarat Data Exchange
City of Ballarat open data platformdata.ballarat.vic.gov.au
