Police have found a mobile phone on the banks of a dam which could represent a breakthrough in the search for missing mother Samantha Murphy.
The 51-year-old woman was last seen leaving her home on Eureka Street to go for a run in the Canadian State Forest on the morning of February 4.
Police resumed the search for his remains on Wednesday. This afternoon they found a mobile phone near a dam located south of Buninyong.
Video captured by ABC shows police celebrating as they made the discovery on the banks of the dam.
In March, police charged shopkeeper Patrick Orren Stephenson, 22, with Ms Murphy’s murder in Mount Clear on the day she disappeared.
He will return to court in August.
Stephenson is the son of Orren Stephenson, who played 15 AFL games for Geelong and Richmond between 2012 and 2014.
Since February, police have launched multiple bushland searches as part of the investigation.
More to come.
