Remains of murdered Sydney woman Samah Baker found outside Goulburn four years after death

James Hachem, 37, is serving a minimum 18-year prison term for the murder but investigators had been unable to find her body

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Human remains found near a highway overpass have been identified as belonging to Sydney woman Samah Baker, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend more than four years ago.

A woman alerted police after she discovered partial remains on 28 July in grassland near the Hume Highway on the southern outskirts of Goulburn, about 200km south-west of Sydney.

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