When detectives first arrived at the doorstep of Gregory Lynn’s family home they were just four months into one of the state’s most high-profile missing persons cases.
When police first arrived at the doorstep of Gregory Lynn’s family home in Caroline Springs, he was already a person of interest in one of the state’s most high-profile police investigations.
Hill and Clay set off for a camping trip at Wonnangatta Valley on March 19, 2020, stopping in the tiny township of Licola on the way. Once Hill collected Clay from her home, the pair set off to camp alongside the Wonnangatta River, and both told family and friends they were either camping alone or with others.After arriving at the valley, so remote that mobile phone service is scarce, Hill made a radio call to a friend.Seven days later, another camper stumbled across the pair’s burnt-out campsite and took a photo before contacting police.
“Russell is our brother, husband, dad and pa and Carol has been a friend of the family for a long time,” the statement read. “It is devastating for our family that we don’t know what has happened to them.”The investigation into the disappearance Russell Hill and Carol Clay focused on a four-wheel drive.Phone tower records revealed to police that Hill’s mobile had “pinged” in an area near Mount Hotham on March 21, 2020.
Detective Leading Senior Constable Daniel Passingham and Detective Sergeant Brett Florence, from the missing persons sqaud, outside Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday.The campfire tale went that the mystery loner was responsible for spooky encounters with campers in the past – and there was a string of people who had vanished in the High Country.
As the trail appeared to run cold and the couple’s names dropped from news headlines, police were circling.
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