The chief commissioner said people “shouldn’t be going on social media and shouldn’t be speculating” on the disappearance of 51-year-old Samantha Murphy, who was last seen going for a run on Sunday morning.
Missing mum Samantha Murphy was notably absent from her family s traditional summer holiday along Victoria s surf coast in the weeks before she vanished.
Police have admitted that CCTV from the morning Samantha Murphy vanished doesn t show the missing mum, after a runner came forward to reveal they are the person seen in the footage.
A runner attacked near where Samantha Murphy vanished has reported female searchers being preyed upon by unruly men as the search for the missing mum-of-three enters its sixth day.
Ms Murphy, 51, left her home on Eureka Street in East Ballarat, north-west of Melbourne , to go for a run in Woowookarung Regional Park just after 7am on Sunday.