Almost a month after Samantha Murphy went missing in Australia, investigators were able to access her mobile phone data.
The 51-year-old mother of three was last seen leaving her home in Ballarat for a run on February 4.
According to Charlie Bezzina, a former homicide detective, accessing the data could help them find her.
Investigators were also able to track the movements of other people in the area using the tower dump, which is a type of monitoring that involves collecting data from various electronic devices.
New information was collected on Sunday, which showed that the mobile phones of other people in the same area pinged at the same time as Murphy’s device.
Bezzina noted that this method, which is referred to as a tower dump, is used by law enforcers to determine the location of electronic equipment.
Val Quinn, a technology expert, said that the information could help law enforcers track the movements of people who may have been associated with Murphy.
Members of the missing persons squad have been analyzing the data collected by the tower dump and have looked through over 12,000 hours of security footage.
It’s an incredibly challenging task to analyze the data collected by tower dump. Without other details, it’s very difficult to find leads.