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Detectives have returned to search remote tracks, rivers and cliffs in the area where missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay were believed to have stayed before they went missing.
Police on Monday said they returned to the Wonnangatta area in Victoriaâs high country as a result of information obtained from previous searches. They are focusing their efforts on the Dargo High Plains Road, Cynthia Range Track, Herne Spur Track and the Wonnangatta Track.
A shovel is found at a search site in Mt Hotham in mid-April.
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Mr Hill, 74, and Ms Clay, 73, have not been seen since they embarked on a camping trip to Wonnangatta Valley, about 250 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, on March 19 last year.
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Police have found a new clue in their renewed search for a couple who vanished on a camping trip more than a year ago while they were having a secret affair as they declared somebody else is involved in the pair s baffling disappearance.
Detectives uncovered two shovels as they were trawling through dense bushland at an incredibly remote location at Mount Hotham in the Victorian Alps about midday on Wednesday while desperately looking for signs of Russell Hill and Carol Clay.
The shovels were placed into plastic bags and carried from the scene by officers so they could be forensically examined.
News by Anthony Piovesan A year-long search for missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay has taken another turn with police moving their search to the Mount Hotham area. Missing Person Squad detectives and Search and Rescue officers will be scouring the area on the Great Alpine Road in Mount Hotham from 9am on Wednesday. Detectives are acting on information uncovered during the course of the investigation that has led them to this area and is believed to be of interest to the investigation, a Victoria Police statement read. Mr Hill and Ms Clay vanished on March 20 during a camping trip in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, 350km east of Melbourne.
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