It comes seven months after the 51-year-old was last seen alive.
Detectives from the Missing Persons Squad alongside specialist interstate and federal police are involved in the operation, which started yesterday in Grenville, seven months after the 51-year-old was last seen alive on February 4.
Patrick Stephenson, 22, was charged with the murder of the missing mother-of-three in March but her body is yet to be found.Samantha Murphy's mobile phone was found on the edge of a dam on farmland near Ballarat in June. 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.Police later said they located items of interest, including an iPhone, which was sent for forensic testing.How the investigation into the disappearance of Samantha Murphy unfoldedHer husband Mick Murphy was called after police made the discovery. He told 9News he immediately knew it was hers.
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