Key Points
- Police say the disappearance of Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy is suspicious.
- Police Commissioner Shane Patton said the situation was unusual due to a lack of trace or leads.
- No sinister circumstances surrounding Murphy’s disappearance have been identified.
“When someone’s been missing for this period of time, we have no trace, clearly there must be some suspicions there because we haven’t been able to locate them,” he said.
“But detectives investigating a matter where a woman’s been missing for a significant period of time, call it unusual, call it suspicious, but it certainly is of significant concern to us.”
Police are also sifting through CCTV footage submitted by the public to try to piece together Murphy’s final documented movements, saying a full-scale search will only resume if fresh information emerges.
Police are keeping up the scale of their search for missing 51-year-old Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy, appealing for dashcam vision in the area. Source: AAP / James Ross
“Missing Persons is tracing, stepping through timelines, looking at CCTV, examining many information reports we’ve received from the public,” the commissioner said.
The mother of three is described as mentally and physically fit and was training for an upcoming race by doing 15km runs.
Source Agencies
