Friends and neighbors have paid tribute to a young mother-of-one whose body was found in a bin under trees in a field.

Police made the grim discovery at around noon on Saturday in the bin on Mount Pollock Road in Buckley, 30 minutes west of Geelong.

The woman’s body, found along a remote dirt road, is believed to be that of Chaithanya ‘Swetha’ Madhagani, who had a young son with husband Ashok Raj Varikuppala.

A second crime scene has also been declared at a house in Point Cook in Melbourne’s south-west, 86km from where her body was found.

Friends have since described Ms Madhagani as ‘a perfect woman and a perfect mother’ who lived for her son.

She often cooked and shared food and invited people to her home.

“She was one of the sweetest girls ever,” said a neighbor Herald Sun.

“Everyone would want Swetha in their life.

‘She was full of life. I can’t believe she’s gone.’

Another neighbor said he was “in disbelief” at the news and that his son had attended a birthday party for the couple’s child.

he had known the family for three years,

“They are a very good, nice family,” he said of the couple.

“I’ve never seen them argue.”

Sources with knowledge of the investigation told the publication that Mr Varikuppala flew back to India with the couple’s son in recent days.

He reportedly called relatives in Victoria to tell them about Ms Madhagani’s death.

The Herald Sun also reported that Mr Varikuppala has stated his willingness to cooperate with authorities.

There is no suggestion that Mr Varikuppala was in any way involved in his wife’s death.

Eric Lewis, who owns land near the spot on Mount Pollock Road where her body was located, was ‘stunned’ by the gruesome discovery.

He said he arrived at the scene after hearing something on the bush telegraph, but the police wouldn’t tell him anything.

“What’s happening here in Buckley, I just can’t believe it,” he said.

Mr Lewis told Nine News he had never seen a bin there and that he passed by it quite often.

Another local resident recalled walking in the area on Friday and noticed a pungent odor that he suspected was a dead sheep.

A third long-time resident said the discovery was ‘disturbing’ and would rock the close-knit local community.

Photos from the scene on Mount Pollock Rd where Ms Madhagani’s body was found show a large police presence, including homicide detectives and members of the Victorian Police VIPER Taskforce.

The VIPER Taskforce is a state-wide capability that provides a tactical and investigative response to serious and organized crime.

Investigators have yet to determine the precise circumstances of Ms Madhagani’s remains.

The bin spent much of Saturday in the sweltering heat before homicide detectives arrived in the late afternoon.

Mount Pollock Rd is a gravel section with farmland on either side.

No arrests have been made at this stage.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

By Michael Pickering for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 10:46 PM EST, March 8, 2024 | Updated: 11:19 PM EST, March 8, 2024

By Bethan Edwards for Mailonline

Published: 9:49 PM EST, January 30, 2024 | Updated: 9:49 PM EST, January 30, 2024

To cut to the chase, yes, it would be great if the Detroit Lions knocked off the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night and advanced to the Super Bowl.

For me, it all goes back to the 1969 New York Mets.

Stay with me on this.

Background: In 1969, as the Amazin' Mets climbed to the top of the standings in the newly formed National League East, it occurred to me that I was watching a reboot of the legendary 1967 “Impossible Dream” Boston Red Sox. was 11 years old in '67, born in Boston, and it was breathtaking to watch the perennially last-place Sox come out of nowhere and capture the American League pennant.

Two years later, at the age of 13, I happily joined the Mets. After playing laughably bad baseball for the first seven seasons of their existence, the '69 Mets overtook Leo Durocher's Chicago Cubs during a hot and crazy summer, then defeated the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS, and then brought down the mighty Baltimore Orioles in the world upset. Series.

Since then I've had a soft spot for, well, let's call them tortured sports franchises. Look, this isn't about supporting the underdog. Every playoff series, every playoff game has a favorite and an underdog, and the many variables that go into determining those designations don't pull me to the edge of my seat. But the tortured sports franchises – the pre-2004 Red Sox, the pre-2016 Cubs, the pre-until-a-few-months-ago Texas Rangers, to name a few – provide an extra dose of drama to the proceedings.

That brings us to the Lions. You've no doubt been inundated with breathtaking breakdowns of this franchise's postseason futility in recent weeks, so we'll stick to the basics, starting here: We in sporting America have an annoying habit of only looking at the NFL through the lens of the Super Bowl era, and in that vein, the sobering reality is that the Lions have never been to the Super Bowl, let alone won one.

The Lions won four NFL championships in the pre-Super Bowl era, most recently in 1957. Baseball's Cleveland Indians/Guardians have gone longer since they last won a championship, beating the old Boston Braves in six games in the 1948 World Series, but the Lions' quest for a championship seems longer — to me, anyway — because of that awkward language about not having played in the Super Bowl.

I have no particular affinity for the Lions, except when fellow UMass graduate Greg Landry was their quarterback in the 1970s. Check that out: My interest was somewhat renewed in 2008 when the Lions selected Boston College tackle Gosder Cherilus with the 17th pick in the draft. Cherilus played football at Somerville High, about a mile from my house, and I covered the ceremony the day he signed to attend BC. So yes, there was home cooking during Cherilus' days in Detroit.

But this isn't about Greg Landry and Gosder Cherilus. It's about Jared Goff, the current Lions quarterback, and Penei Sewell, the All-Pro Lions tackle. It's about Dan Campbell, the enthusiastic coach who took the Lions from 3-13-1 to 9-8 to 12-5 in three seasons. With playoff wins over the Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Lions are one big step away from landing in the Super Bowl.

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— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 22, 2024

The sports connoisseur in me would like to see that happen. Just like last weekend, the sports pundit in me wanted to see the Buffalo Bills keep winning and get back to the Super Bowl…and finally win the thing. In fact, a Lions-Bills Super Bowl matchup was a dream lurking within me. It would have been a nice follow-up to the 2016 World Series between the Cubs, who hadn't won a championship since 1908, and the Indians, who last won it all when they defeated the Braves in '48.

It would be an exaggeration to suggest that all football fans will root for the Lions to beat the 49ers with all their heart and soul. Legalized sports betting has changed the landscape forever; Fans betting on the games will be less likely to take into account that the Lions haven't won it all since Dec. 29, 1957, when Tobin Rote threw four touchdown passes in Detroit's 59-14 win over the Cleveland Browns.

A much more pressing concern, if you've seen the Lions' two playoff wins so far, is that the Rams' Puka Nacua (nine catches, 181 yards) and the Bucs' Mike Evans (eight catches, 147 yards) benefited from the mediocre Detroit secondary. If the 49ers' Brandon Aiyuk posts numbers like that on Sunday, we might be seeing the end of Detroit's dream season.

That's a story yet to be written. So far, the story has been riveting for those of us who follow the tortured sports franchises. Picture this: the Detroit Lions are one win out of the Super Bowl. For those of us who support the story, this is worth following.

(Photo by Amon-Ra St. Brown and Taylor Decker: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

By J. Peterson for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 06:24 EST, December 2, 2023 | Updated: 07:04 EST, December 2, 2023

Police have made a surprising breakthrough in the search for a young father missing for 70 years in Sydney’s west.

Donald Gordon Buckley, a 24-year-old laborer and father of three, was last seen at Warwick Farm in 1953.

Despite extensive investigations, the case remained cold until Buckley’s granddaughter Donna Truscott reported him missing again in early 2023.

Following a call, police were contacted by a member of the public and it has since been revealed that Mr Buckley had changed his identity six times.

Police believe Mr Buckley died of natural causes in Moree in 1980, when he would have been 51 years old.

Despite an extensive police investigation in the 1950s, officers were unable to track down Mr Buckley.

After his disappearance, he exchanged a small amount of correspondence with his family before suddenly breaking off contact in 1954.

At the time, he had two young boys, ages two and four, and a baby, but was reportedly having marital problems.

After his disappearance in 1953, he continued to pay child support, but this also stopped in 1954.

Ms Truscott said it was her father Donald Buckley Jr’s dying wish in 2016. was to locate Mr. Buckley, whom he had last seen at the age of four.

‘Being an alcoholic, having problems and having so many children at such a young age. I think he just didn’t want to be himself,” Ms Truscott said the ABC.

Police said Mr Buckley Sr assumed a new identity before dying of natural causes in the NSW town of Moree in 1980.

‘There were six names on his death certificate. He didn’t just change his name when he was using six different aliases,” Ms Truscott said,

“There were also three changes to his age on the certificate.”

Ms Truscott has called on the NSW coroner to confirm the man buried in Moree cemetery is her grandfather.

In a strange twist, Ms Truscott’s decision to take a DNA test and upload it to a genealogy website in 2017 to track down her grandfather led to another missing woman being identified.

After reading about a nationwide call for people to submit their DNA to police for a national database, Ms Truscott has provided hers to NSW Police in a bid to help her track down her grandfather.

But when Queensland Police contacted Ms Truscott in June this year, they did not expect the reason for her call.

“The officer said, ‘I’m actually calling you in relation to the body of a woman that was found under a unit complex in Alderley in Queensland last year,'” Ms Truscott said.

The officer explained to Ms Truscott that the DNA she had uploaded via GEDMatch in 2017 matched an unidentified woman found at the unit complex in Brisbane.

“Their genealogist could see a maternal link, through my mother, my aunt, my sister and I,” Ms Truscott said.

‘She is very distantly related, but there was enough DNA present to map it out unmistakably.’

Nine months later, Queensland Police were finally able to confirm that the skeletal remains discovered were those of Tanya Lee Glover, who would have been approximately 38 years old at the time of her death.

Although Ms Glover’s identity was a huge step forward, police are still investigating how she died and who may be responsible.

Ms Glover was not formally known to Queensland Police and no missing persons reports had ever been made regarding her welfare.

When Ms Glover’s parents discovered her identity, they were informed of her death by police.

It is understood she moved to Queensland from NSW in 2006 and lived in the Fortitude Valley area until 2010.

She was visually impaired and hearing impaired.

No arrests have been made or charges filed in connection with her death or disappearance.

Chief Inspector Massingham said investigators were still trying to determine her cause of death but there were signs of trauma.

“This information is very timely at this stage,” Chief Inspector Massingham said.

‘A number of objects in the form of wrapping paper and the like that I spoke about at the time were found at the scene. These are still the subject of ongoing DNA research and also of ongoing forensic research.

Ms Glover is described as white, between 155cm and 165cm tall, and had dark brown hair.

As the investigation continues, Ms Truscott said her family were “honoured to have helped Tanya get her identity back”.

“I’d like to say we’ve played a major role in that, but the police have done all the work, they’ve built up a huge three-generation family tree with potentially hundreds of people,” Ms Truscott said.

‘How incredible that for science, for DNA, for unsolved murder victims, the evolution of this is absolutely remarkable.

‘It’s a good thing I don’t regret uploading the DNA.

“You never thought that your DNA would never in a million years solve the identity of someone like Tanya.”

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By Jimmy Briggs for Daily Mail Australia

published: 11:39 PM EDT, June 12, 2023 | Updated: 11:39 PM EDT, June 12, 2023