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Police searching for the bodies of missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay have found human remains in bushland near Dargo.

A Caroline Springs man has been charged with the murders of missing Wonnangatta campers, Russell Hill and Carol Clay, as police narrow in on finding their bodies.

After nearly two years of false leads and few clues, detectives have made a breakthrough in the case of missing elderly campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay - fuelling hope the mystery may finally be solved.

A mobile phone charger, a mysterious woman and a drone could hold the key to solving the disappearance of an elderly man and his secret lover who vanished during a camping trip in remote bushland.  Police have been trying to piece together what happened to Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, in the lead-up to their disappearance from the Wonnangatta Valley, in the Victorian Alps, in March 2020. The pair had been involved in a secret affair for years when they decided to take a camping trip t...

Search for the campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay continues in Wonnangatta   Police announced they will return to Victorian region where pair were last seen Investigators said its the result of information obtained from previous searches Mr Hill, 74, and Ms Clay, 73, vanished from Wonnangatta Valley 13 months ago Mr Hills close friend said the remote bushland region was certainly not safe   Friend said he spoke to Mr Hills sad wife exactly a year on from disappearance

The 13-month-long desperate search for Victorian campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay will return to the area where they disappeared. Victorian police announced on Monday they would return to the Wonnangatta area on Monday as a result of information obtained from previous searches. Two shovels were found during a search of the Mt Hotham area on April 14, about 100km from Wonnangatta, which are still being examined. The search will now focus on the area along the Dargo High Plains Rd, Cynthia Ran...

Police have found a new clue in their renewed search for a couple who vanished on a camping trip more than a year ago while they were having a secret affair as they declared somebody else is involved in the pairs baffling disappearance.     Detectives uncovered two shovels as they were trawling through dense bushland at an incredibly remote location at Mount Hotham in the Victorian Alps about midday on Wednesday while desperately looking for signs of Russell Hill and Carol Clay. The shovels...

Mr Hill, who was married, had been in a decades-long affair with Ms Clay when they vanished during a camping trip in Victorias Wonnangatta Valley.

Mr Hill, 74, and Ms Clay, 73, have not been seen since they embarked on a camping trip to Wonnangatta Valley, about 250 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, on March 19 last year. Mr Hill owned a DJI Mavic drone that police said he took with him on the camping trip and had not been recovered. Police are examining whether the drone handed to police was owned by Mr Hill. Loading “Missing persons squad detectives have received an item that was handed in to police over the weekend,” a poli...

Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, 73, went camping in secret on March 19 in the rugged bushland of the Wonnangatta Valley in Victorias East Gippsland region, and never returned.