Investigators have confirmed the man is not connected to the Murphy family.
A man has been arrested over the disappearance of Ballarat mother of three Samantha Murphy, who vanished more than a month ago.
Murphy disappeared on February 4 after telling family she was going for a 14-kilometre run on nearby trails.Murphy’s family reported her disappearance to police when she failed to attend a brunch later that day.on Thursday he had been in contact with police all week but that he had not been told of Wednesday’s arrest.Following the arrest, close family friend Paula Heenan said that like everyone else in the community, she hoped for a positive outcome for Samantha.
Last week investigators said they believed that Murphy was not alive as they probed the possibility that herEarlier this month, dozens of officers carefully sifted through bush at Mount Clear, about six kilometres from where Murphy was last seen, after mobile phone data pointed detectives to the area.
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