Large-scale search launched in Victoria’s Enfield state park due to intelligence from ‘number of sources’
Victoria police say they will search the Enfield state park in an attempt to find the body of Ballarat woman Samantha MurphyVictoria police say they will search the Enfield state park in an attempt to find the body of Ballarat woman Samantha MurphyVictoria police have launched a new bid to find the body of the missing Ballarat woman Samantha Murphy, with officers searching the Enfield state park, about 25km south of the regional city, on Thursday.
“Police will today conduct a significant search of bushland in the Enfield State Park area as part of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Ballarat East woman Samantha Murphy,” police said in a statement on Thursday. Hatt said since Murphy’s disappearance, police had conducted a range of searches and other inquiries as part of their investigation.
Investigators from the search and rescue squad, the mounted branch, dog squad, the public order response team and motorcyclists will be involved in the search., south of Ballarat, concluded without finding the alleged murder victim. Previous searches also focused in on the Woowookarung regional park, known by locals as the Canadian forest, on the south-eastern fringe of Ballarat.
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