Laura Mayers

On February 4th, Ms Murphy left her Ballarat East home for her regular Sunday morning workout, but never returned.

Mum, we love you so much and we miss you.

Ballarat man Patrick Oren Stevenson was arrested and charged with Ms Murphy's murder...

Stockie, thank you so much for having me.

Yes, I can confirm that that trial has not commenced at this stage.

So, Samantha Murphy, a mother of three, 51-year-old, went missing on February 4th, and that's 2024.

She went for a run and failed to return home.

There were several searches, multiple searches over the days and weeks following her disappearance.

She was never found.

And in March, a man was arrested and charged.

That was one count of murder.

That was Patrick Stevenson.

On November 14, 2024, Mr. Stevenson entered a not guilty plea to that one charge.

So Patrick Stevenson was 22 when he was arrested and charged with that one count of murder.

He's currently 24.

He's from the Ballarat region and he is the son of an AFL footballer.

And we know that he was pretty active in sports groups in the region as well.

Yeah, so there's no date that has been set yet.

Previously, we had reported that it was expected the trial was going to commence in June this year, but we are currently working through the pre-trial process at the moment.

Yeah, that's right.