The small pieces of hands,feet and skull that gave away campers’ resting place

The small pieces of hands,feet and skull that gave away campers’ resting place

Among the 2100 human remains were small clues that police had found Russell Hill and Carol Clay,but more than 1500 were so tiny they could not be identified.

  • byErin Pearson

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Bucks Camp crime scene video
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Bucks Camp crime scene video

Police mobile phone video footage taken at Bucks Camp in the Wonnangatta Valley on March 28,2020. Video shows the burnt campsite and Russell Hill's ute.

Bolt-action shotgun police say killed camper shown to jury

Bolt-action shotgun police say killed camper shown to jury

A ballistics expert has told a jury the shotgun police allege was used to murder camper Carol Clay would be difficult to fire accidentally.

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Fire obliterated any chance of working out campers’ cause of death,court told

Fire obliterated any chance of working out campers’ cause of death,court told

A forensic pathologist said she could not say how Russell Hill,74,and Carol Clay,73,died after their bodies were burnt into thousands of bone fragments.

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Two years after Carol Clay was shot in the head,police found a skull fragment

Two years after Carol Clay was shot in the head,police found a skull fragment

In the remote Wonnangatta Valley,crime scene examiners found a single piece of skull. That led them to more fragments in the search for Carol Clay and Russell Hill.

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Teeth and a charred watch:The police search for missing campers’ remains

Teeth and a charred watch:The police search for missing campers’ remains

At the base of a fallen tree off a remote alpine track,forensic experts spent three days meticulously looking for answers to the disappearance of Russell Hill and Carol Clay.

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Alleged murderer changed colour of his 4WD after deaths,court hears

Alleged murderer changed colour of his 4WD after deaths,court hears

Gregory Lynn was also snapped by a traffic camera at the same time as missing camper Russell Hill’s phone was traced to the same stretch of remote road,the Supreme Court was told.

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Camper’s widow tells murder trial of affair ultimatum,a husband’s vow and radio silence
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Camper’s widow tells murder trial of affair ultimatum,a husband’s vow and radio silence

Russell Hill’s wife packed a bag for her husband’s camping trip and never saw him again. She has told a jury about their marriage,his affair and the silence that led her to call in police.

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‘Alarming for a young kid’:What a father and son found at missing campers’ abandoned site

‘Alarming for a young kid’:What a father and son found at missing campers’ abandoned site

A burnt campsite,an Esky full of food,a handbag on the passenger seat of a car. The first people to come across Russell Hill and Carol Clay’s campsite have described the scene to a jury.

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Broken love pact at centre of missing campers’ long-time affair

Broken love pact at centre of missing campers’ long-time affair

A Supreme Court jury has been taken inside the long-term affair between Russell Hill and Carol Clay before they were allegedly murdered together on a camping trip.

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Carol Clay reunited with her first boyfriend. They died together,killed on a camping trip

Carol Clay reunited with her first boyfriend. They died together,killed on a camping trip

When Russell Hill and Carol Clay went missing in the remote alpine region it raised an unusual problem for her family.

  • byErin Pearson