Police continue searching for body of Ballarat woman Samantha Murphy

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Police have converged on a heavily forested area south of Ballarat -- to resume their search for Samantha Murphy, the 51-year-old woman who went missing in february. A man has been charged with her murder, but her remains haven't been found.

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00:00Police have once again arrived in an area south of Ballarat to resume the search for

00:06Samantha Murphy.

00:07About 45 personnel from both NSW and Victoria Police have joined in the search today.

00:13The search area is a forested patch in Grenville, south of Ballarat.

00:18Police say due to undocumented mineshafts, it's a dangerous search and have enlisted

00:22the help of specialist teams such as the Dog Squad and Mantid Division while the search

00:27is being led by the Missing Persons Unit.

00:29Fifty-one-year-old Samantha Murphy went for a run from her home in Ballarat East on February

00:354 and has never been seen again.

00:37She was presumed deceased only weeks after her disappearance, but her body has never

00:41been found despite numerous searches, including one that located her phone in a dam not too

00:47far away from here in late May.

00:49Twenty-two-year-old Patrick Oren-Stevenson was charged with her alleged murder and is

00:54due to front court again in November.

00:57For more information visit www.fema.gov

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