{"id":217011,"date":"2025-10-16T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:27:09","slug":"remains-of-missing-victorian-woman-lucinda-miller-discovered-in-police-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217011\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of missing Victorian woman Lucinda Miller discovered in police search"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look back at how ABC readers and other Australians responded to this live
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50m agoThu 16 Oct 2025 at 4:35am<\/p>\n

We’re going to end it here\"Maddy<\/p>\n

The police press conference has concluded, so we’re going to wrap it up here.<\/p>\n

Thanks for joining us.<\/p>\n

51m agoThu 16 Oct 2025 at 4:34am<\/p>\n

No malice involved, police say<\/p>\n

Acting Inspector Linford said at this stage there was no malice involved with the Uber driver providing information regarding her location.<\/p>\n

“At the time, that was what he remembered,” she said.<\/p>\n

“But the new information that we received gave us the new location.”<\/p>\n

54m agoThu 16 Oct 2025 at 4:31am<\/p>\n

So, what changed in three years?<\/p>\n

Three years on, Acting Inspector Linford said the new information provided provided to police led the team to look at the search differently, including with the use of Uber data.<\/p>\n

“That gave us a different point to start our search again,” she said.<\/p>\n

Show more<\/p>\n

Police have uncovered the remains of missing woman Lucinda Miller three years to the day since she went missing in bushland in Victoria’s east.<\/p>\n

Ms Miller disappeared after taking a ride home from Melbourne to Neerim South in Gippsland in October 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said the 24-year-old was dropped off along a roadside at 11:30am but never arrived home.<\/p>\n

Police resumed their search for Ms Miller on Tuesday<\/a>, using dogs trained to sniff out electronic devices in the hope of finding her phone, which was never recovered.<\/p>\n

The search focused on a new location about 2 kilometres north of the original search area.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said 60 people were involved in the search over the past three days.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Police thanked volunteers who helped in the search. (ABC Gippsland: Jack Colantuono)<\/p>\n

“Local police would like to extend their thanks to the Neerim South CFA, SES, DEECA and the AFP for their support and assistance,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Ms Miller’s death is not being treated as suspicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live Moment Look back at how ABC readers and other Australians responded to this live moment. 50m agoThu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,132603,132604,17724,57480,132605,16872,132602,44,7452,33608,2024],"class_list":["post-217011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baw-baw","tag-deeca","tag-emergency-services","tag-gippsland","tag-major-search","tag-missing-person","tag-neerim-south","tag-news","tag-search","tag-ses","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}