Carly McBride murder trial: natural history student stumbled upon bush grave

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Updated April 19 2021 - 5:18pm, first published 5:00pm
MISSED: Carly McBride was last seen at Calgaroo Avenue at Muswellbrook on September 30, 2014. Her remains were found in bush outside Scone.
MISSED: Carly McBride was last seen at Calgaroo Avenue at Muswellbrook on September 30, 2014. Her remains were found in bush outside Scone.

A NATURAL history student photographing vegetation and animals in a remote section of bush outside Scone in August 2016 stumbled upon skeletal remains, clothing and sandals, a discovery that would soon become a major breakthrough in the nearly two-year disappearance of missing mother Carly McBride.

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Sam Rigney

Court Reporter

Sam began his Newcastle Herald career as a night police reporter in 2011. He is an experienced court reporter who has won two national court reporting awards, including the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Court Reporting for his coverage of the Hunter's worst serial rapist. Before working at the Herald, Sam was a sports journalist with the Maitland Mercury where he won awards for his coverage of the Newcastle Rugby League salary cap scandal. Sam is a Novocastrian born-and-bred.

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