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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore

Search parties, intrigue and a piece of Australian bushland hiding a secret: what happened to Samantha Murphy?

Bush tracker Jake Cassar in joined by local man David Orsini in bushland
Bush tracker Jake Cassar (right) is joined by local man David Orsini as they search for clues about what happened to Ballarat woman Samantha Murphy after she left home for an early morning run. Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian

Veteran Australian bush tracker Jake Cassar surveys the sprawling bushland that appears to glow in the evening light. He inches forward among the dense ferns in the park on the outskirts of the historic Australian gold-mining town, gaze immersed in the earth.

“As a tracker, I can pick up where people have and haven’t been,” he says.

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