00:00The arrests come after the discovery of two bodies in the Maribyrnong River in Flemington
00:07in Melbourne's inner north western suburbs on Sunday morning.
00:11A man's body was discovered around 9 o'clock in the morning and then just an hour and a
00:15half later and only 800 metres away a passerby made the grim discovery of a woman's body.
00:22Now police say that those two discoveries are not linked but in relation to the discovery
00:27of the woman's body, homicide squad detectives have arrested a 49 year old woman and a 15
00:33year old boy from West Footscray in Melbourne's western suburbs.
00:37The teenager has been released without charge but detectives have charged the woman with
00:43murder and she's been remanded in custody to face the Melbourne Magistrates Court at
00:48some stage today.
00:50Now in relation to their investigation they are asking anybody with CCTV or dash cam footage
00:56from Glamis Road in West Footscray as well as from the Smithfield Road Flemington area
01:03around Lynch's Bridge to get in contact with them and also if anybody saw anybody acting
01:09suspiciously around those areas between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning.
01:16Now in relation to the man's body's discovery they say that his death is not being treated
01:22as suspicious at this stage, however both of these bodies have yet to be formally identified.
01:30Homicide squad detectives say that it's understood that the 49 year old woman and the 15 year
01:35old boy were known to this deceased woman and they want anybody with any further information
01:42to contact them.
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