The Courier reporter Nieve Walton provides an update on the search efforts of Samantha Murphy, three weeks on from her suspicious disappearance.
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00:00 It's been almost three weeks since Samantha Murphy was last seen in her home in Ballarat East
00:06 and the search in Ballarat is continuing.
00:09 Right now there's not a lot of ground searching like there was in that first week
00:13 when there were a lot of CFA and SES volunteers searching areas in the Wurrukarong Regional Park
00:19 but police are continuing their investigations.
00:23 Police Commissioner Shane Patton said last week that they haven't been treating the cases suspicious
00:31 but it is suspicious that there hasn't been any new information since she went missing on that Sunday morning.
00:37 Samantha was going for a run, presumably in an area like this.
00:41 This place is close to her home and police say it was known to her she would run in tracks like this frequently.
00:49 She was a very fit woman and would run long distances.
00:54 This Saturday people in the Ballarat area are being urged to come out by the community and help with the ground search.
01:02 So they'll be meeting in Ballarat East on Saturday morning and walking through areas like this looking for any signs of Samantha.
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