Police divers have pulled a laptop from an irrigation canal during their search for Stephanie Scott.
A picture of Stephanie Scott posted on Facebook today by her fiance Aaron Leeson-Woolley. Source: Facebook
IT was a long, lonely dirt road that led police to the remains of beloved school teacher and bride-to-be Stephanie Scott.
On the eve of her wedding, police scouring a national park 90 minutes from where she vanished in Leeton found her body in scrubland.
Police found the remains about 5pm on the Whitton Stock Route to search for her bush grave, just metres off the dirt road.
A crime scene was established last night and forensic investigators were scouring the area.
Her body was found in dense bushland kilometres from the nearest home.
Under a three quarter moon, police erected spotlights around Ms Scott's remains.
Ms Scott's remains were found in Cocoparra National Park, approximately 75 kilometres from Leeton.
It is the latest crushing development for her distraught fiance Aaron Leeson-Woolley and the Scott family which had gathered in her home town this week for her planned wedding today.
The development comes after police divers recovered a laptop from a canal just a few kilometres from where her car was dumped.
Police and forensic officers process the scene where Ms Scott's body was found. Picture: Chris McKeen Source: News Corp Australia
Witnesses have given chilling accounts of seeing a man dump a laptop in a canal after pulling up in a white ute similar to the police description of one seized at the home of Stephanie Scott's alleged killer.
Two truck drivers then watched the man, with a baseball cap and sunglasses on, run back to the ute and speed off towards Leeton, a few minutes drive away.
The waterway is just a few kilometres from where the 26-year-old teacher's red Mazda 3 was dumped in a wheat field.
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Police and forensic officers process the scene where Ms Scott's body was found. Picture: Chris McKeen Source: News Corp Australia
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Betrothed ... Aaron Wooley and Stephanie Scott. Picture: Ch 9 Source: DailyTelegraph
Local Leeton resident Brendan Lyons saw a man throw a laptop into the canal. Picture: Jeremy Piper Source: News Corp Australia
Paul Halls and Brendan Lyons had been working in a shed on Griffith Rd, Leeton, on Easter Sunday when they saw the man stop by the road dotted with farm houses and dispose of the computer just before 4pm.
After hearing about Ms Scott's alleged murder on Wednesday morning, the men contacted police and gave a description of the unidentified man and the white Toyota Hilux ute.
A team of police divers from Sydney returned to the murky, 2m deep channel yesterday where they recovered a small laptop with a red cover.
It looked similar to those issued to teachers in some parts of NSW, but police were not immediately able to say if it belonged to Ms Scott.
Mr Halls said after dumping the laptop the man ran back to his car, did a U-turn and sped off towards Leeton.
Mr Halls said the vehicle was similar to an image police released yesterday in their appeal for information about Mr Stanford's movements on Sunday, the day Ms Scott was last seen alive.
"We actually thought he was up to no good. I saw him run down the embankment and then drive back towards town," Mr Lyons said.
"We rang the police on Wednesday when we heard over the radio what happened."
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The white utility seized by police. Source: Supplied
Many of the people invited to murdered teacher Stephanie Scott's wedding live in Leeton. Others are there from interstate, and even overseas, and all are suffering unimaginably but somehow, they are gaining strength from each other
Police divers search an irrigation channel. Picture: AAP/David Moir Source: AAP
Ms Scott's red Mazda was found on Thursday morning abandoned by the edge of a wheat field on a rural property about 8km from Leeton near the road to Griffith.
Yesterday, Mr Lyons said he had seen a man walking along Griffith Rd towards Leeton on Monday morning.
He said the man, wearing a backpack and T-shirt, closely resembled an image of Mr Stanford's identical twin brother, who lives in Adelaide.
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The couple on holiday together. Picture: Facebook Source: Facebook
Stephanie and fiance Aaron. Picture: Facebook Source: Facebook
Ms Scott vanished from Leeton High School on Easter Sunday after going into work to finish some lesson plans for her replacement ahead of her wedding, which was supposed to take place today.
School cleaner Vincent Stanford was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with the popular schoolteacher's murder.
Police will allege they found blood in the back of Mr Stanford's car and pictures of a burnt body on his camera.
Volunteer rescue crews continued line searches around Leeton yesterday in the hope of finding any clues that might lead them to Ms Scott's remains.
The grief is still raw at the tribute wall for murdered bride-to-be and Leeton teacher Stephanie Scott. Picture: Chris McKeen Source: News Corp Australia
Meanwhile, her family is preparing to hold a community picnic at Mountford Park in Leeton today in Stephanie's honour to "celebrate what should have been the happiest day of her life."
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SHE will always be his bride to be.
In one heartbreakingly simple photograph yesterday Aaron Leeson-Woolley summed up all that he has lost and the dreams that will never be.
Stephanie Scott, hair wet, stands with her back to the camera to show the embroidered message on her dressing gown: "Soon to be Mrs".
Stephanie Scott wears a robe saying "Soon to be Mrs". Picture: Instagram Source: Supplied
But instead of celebrating their wedding in front of 100 family and friends today Aaron is grieving the loss of the love of his life.
In a display of love and thanks, the Scott family have asked their friends and the Leeton community to join them in painting the town yellow at a picnic in a local park today.
Sister Robyn Scott said the day was to thank the community for their support and "for Stephanie to celebrate what should have been the happiest day of her life."
"Pack a picnic, wear yellow and come and join us. The community have been more than amazing and it has helped us all through the most difficult time we will ever face as a family," she said.
Before police charged school cleaner Vincent Stanford, 24, with her murder, Mr Leeson-Woolley said his bubbly fiance was "over the moon to be getting married."
The heartbroken groom spent much of yesterday going through the couple's photo albums and posting a series of visual memories of their happy life together online.
The 26-year-old schoolteacher had spent the morning before she disappeared on Easter Sunday painting the names of guests on flower pots for use as place settings at the wedding.
They were still sitting on the table where she left them — never to be finished — as her frantic fiance scoured the Riverina town of Leeton trying to find her.
Her last email was to confirm the buses that would take guests to the picturesque Eat Your Greens function centre at Eugowra, three hours away.
Owner Jess Stanley confirmed the family had been in touch to cancel the wedding. "We are really not comfortable talking about this right now," she said.
Nearby Bed and Breakfast owner Bob Roach, whose son went to school with Stephanie, said: "Most of the people were coming to the wedding from Canowindra where Stephanie grew up."
The town of just 2,500 people is in mourning.
Small town united in grief helps ease father's grief
GRIEF stricken Bob Scott has taken comfort from listening as complete strangers in Leeton tell each other why they loved his daughter Stephanie.
In Woolworths yesterday he stood quietly to the side as a cashier and customer talked about the beloved 26-year-old high school teacher and their grief at her brutal murder.
He was with close friend Bob Hawke as they listened while waiting in line.
Andrew Dunkley, who was at school with Stephanie, with wife Jess and baby Layla were to attend the wedding. Picture: Britta Campion Source: News Corp Australia
"I told her this is Stephanie's father and she just burst into tears," Mr Hawke said yesterday.
"Bob wanted to stop and listen to what they were saying about Stephanie."
"He said to them: 'Thank you very much for the kind words'."
Mr Scott then went to pay for his $94.50 worth of groceries only to find a stranger had anonymously given $100 to management to pay for his shopping when they noticed him in the aisles.
Grief-stricken Aaron Woolley, Stephanie Scott's fiance. Picture: Chris McKeen Source: DailyTelegraph
It wasn't until he reached the register to pay that a clearly moved Mr Scott was told of the gesture.
Mr Hawke said the grieving father was so touched by the random act of kindness that he tried to find out who the woman was, but she did not leave a name.
The people of Leeton may be broken by grief, but they have opened their hearts to the Scott family and to the many friends who came for their wedding today and will today mourn her together.
Students comfort each other as they create a floral and balloon tribute. Picture: Chris McKeen Source: DailyTelegraph
Fiane Aaron Leeson-Woolley and Stephanie's mother Merrilyn visit the tribute wall. Picture: AAP Source: AAP
When told a member of the Scott family was checking in to one local hotel, the owner refused to accept any payment.
More than $15,000 has been collected for Ms Scott's family on the fundraising website GoFundMe.
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