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A private search party finds the mobile phone of missing Belgian tourist Celine Cremer near Philosopher Falls, Tasmania, 2.5 years after her disappearance, sparking a renewed recovery operation.

The two-and-a-half-year mystery surrounding the disappearance of Belgian tourist Celine Cremer has reached a heartbreaking conclusion in the unforgiving wilderness of Tasmania. A solitary mobile phone, discovered by a tenacious private search party near the treacherous Philosopher Falls, has been confirmed by police as belonging to the missing 31-year-old.
This discovery shatters the lingering, fragile hope held by Cremer’s family since she vanished into the dense bushland in June 2023. The phone, found partially buried in mud and leaf litter, serves as a silent, digital witness to her final movements in a landscape described by local rangers as "impenetrable" during the winter months. It is the first significant piece of physical evidence since her white Honda CRV was found abandoned in the carpark weeks after she was last seen.
The breakthrough did not come from a massive state operation, but from the grit of a private team of volunteers and friends who refused to let the case go cold. Using new data analysis of her last known signal, they combed a sector previously deemed too dangerous for standard search crews. The grim find vindicates their persistence but opens a new chapter of grief.
Tasmania Police Inspector Andrew Hanson confirmed forensic experts are now analyzing the device, hoping its GPS data or final photos might pinpoint the exact location of her remains. "The bush here protects its secrets aggressively," Hanson noted. "Finding this phone in that haystack is nothing short of miraculous."
As forensic teams descend once more on the waterfall's basin, the focus shifts from rescue to recovery. For the Cremer family in Brussels, the phone is a cruel talisman—proof that their daughter was there, and proof that she is never coming home.
The tragedy serves as a grim warning to the thousands of solo trekkers who flock to Tasmania's wild west coast: nature is indifferent to your experience, and one wrong turn can lead to an eternal silence.
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