Police confirmed they not be searching the Buninyong area, after discovering an iPhone near a dam yesterday.
Detectives from the Missing Persons Squad, together with a range of specialist resources including federal police, spent hours yesterday searching south of Buninyong, about five kilometres south of where Samantha’s phone last pinged to a mobile phone tower.
9News has footage of police seizing a phone inside a wallet-like phone cover with identification cards inside from beside the dam about 12.25pm.
Police confirmed “some items of interest” were found, which will be forensically tested.
Detectives today said there was no update on the forensic assessment of the items.
Police said they “have been regularly undertaking a range of enquiries and small-scale searches as part of the current investigation” since Murphy went missing.
The 51-year-old’s family has also been advised of the search.