The family of missing Ballarat woman Samantha Murphy are growing increasingly desperate six days into the search for her, as specialist detectives are called in. Victoria Police confirmed on Friday detectives from the Missing Persons Squad will join about 40 local police in the search for Murphy, who was last seen leaving her home to go for a run on Sunday morning.
available," Inspector Bob Heany said. Police said they had struggled to make any breakthroughs in the past 48 hours. Murphy, 51, is described as a Caucasian woman, about 173cm tall, with a slim build and shoulder-length blonde hair. She is a mother of three children and married to Michael Murphy. Murphy is known to family and friends as a mentally and physically strong woman, and her disappearance is said to be out of character.
released on Wednesday initially thought to have shown Murphy running on Eureka St depicted someone else and was irrelevant to the investigation. A friend of Murphy said she was an extremely dedicated mum and described the situation as an "absolute nightmare rollercoaster". "Sam is the most strong woman I know and I'm not just talking about mind, I'm also talking about body," Virginia O'Loughlan told the Seven Network.
or dashcam they have between 7 am and 11 am on Sunday 4 February. Local community members are helping with the search, with many on foot, others riding bicycles, on horseback or in four-wheel drives, to pick through scrub on the roadsides. Murphy's husband, Mick, thanked the community for their support and appealed for more information on his wife's whereabouts. "People just don't vanish into thin air," he told reporters.
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