Police have asked the public not to help in latest search for Ballarat woman allegedly murdered after she disappeared in February
Multiple branches of Australian police are undertaking a targeted search for the body of missing woman Samantha Murphy who disappeared more than seven months ago.
The 51-year-old Ballarat mother was last seen leaving her home on Eureka Street to go for a run in the Canadian state forest on the morning of 4 February.
The last significant breakthrough in the search came in May when Murphy’s mobile phone was located on the edge of a dam on farmland near Ballarat.
On May 29, detectives performed a ”targeted search” south of Buninyong, about five kilometres south of where Murphy’s phone last pinged to a mobile phone tower.
That day, police were seen combing the side of a dirt road for any pieces of evidence.
