Gone without a trace

[SirRumpole]

More specialist officers added to search for Samantha.

Community mounts 'mega search' for missing Victorian woman Samantha Murphy

Police say they have added highly experienced detectives from multiple policing divisions to the weeks-long search for missing Ballarat mum Samantha Murphy.

www.abc.net.au

 

[farmerge]

More specialist officers added to search for Samantha.

Community mounts 'mega search' for missing Victorian woman Samantha Murphy

Police say they have added highly experienced detectives from multiple policing divisions to the weeks-long search for missing Ballarat mum Samantha Murphy.

www.abc.net.au

Sir r I would suggest too little too late.

 

[SirRumpole]

Sir r I would suggest too little too late.

Quite possibly. Searchers would already have trampled over most of the clues I would suggest. I feel the most likely cause is abduction and then been driven away from the area, but who knows until she is actually found.

 

[SirRumpole]

22 year old Ballarat man arrested over Samantha's disappearance.

No charges laid as yet.

 

[sptrawler]

22 year old Ballarat man arrested over Samantha's disappearance.

No charges laid as yet.

Charges laid, interesting case, great police work.

 

[farmerge]

Charges laid, interesting case, great police work.

Would appear that someone knows something. This arrest seems to come out of the blue.

 

[sptrawler]

It certainly sounds like excellent police work.

Alleged killer of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy unmasked

Patrick Stephenson, 22, is the son of ex-Geelong and Richmond footballer Orren Stephenson.

www.theage.com.au

The son of an ex-AFL player has been unmasked as the alleged killer of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy.

A magistrate has lifted an interim suppression order preventing the publication of the name, address, and date of birth of 22-year-old Patrick Stephenson.

Stephenson, the son of prominent late-life AFL draftee Orren Stephenson, was arrested at a home in Scotsburn, a farming community east of Buninyong, early on Wednesday morning.

He was charged with murder on Thursday afternoon.

 

[SirRumpole]

It certainly sounds like excellent police work.

Alleged killer of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy unmasked

Patrick Stephenson, 22, is the son of ex-Geelong and Richmond footballer Orren Stephenson.

www.theage.com.au

The son of an ex-AFL player has been unmasked as the alleged killer of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy.

A magistrate has lifted an interim suppression order preventing the publication of the name, address, and date of birth of 22-year-old Patrick Stephenson.

Stephenson, the son of prominent late-life AFL draftee Orren Stephenson, was arrested at a home in Scotsburn, a farming community east of Buninyong, early on Wednesday morning.

He was charged with murder on Thursday afternoon.

It will be interesting to hear how they got onto him.

Maybe mobile phone tracking put them both in the same place at the same time.