Family and community in limbo two months on from violent death

Richard Wills was found shot and buried in a shallow grave on April 7. (Supplied)

The community of Ouyen in Victoria's north-west is still searching for answers two months on from the death of local man Richard Wills.

Mr Wills's family says police haven't provided any information about the investigation to them since a public appeal a week after his death.

Victoria Police says it briefs families where appropriate so as not to compromise an ongoing investigation.

It's 5pm on a Thursday evening in the small farming community of Ouyen in Victoria's north-west.

The main street is quiet, shops are shut, road trains pass through the town of 1,170 residents, with a few locals circulating around town — most heading home or to the local football-netball centre for training.

While the community, about 100km south of Mildura, goes about its day, a homicide investigation into the death of a local farmer remains active and ongoing in the background.

Ouyen is a small farming community 100km south of Mildura. (ABC News: Nethma Dandeniya)

Today marks two months since Richard Wills left his Hughes Street home in Ouyen about 8am on Easter Sunday to go to work on his 650-hectare farm on the Mallee Highway, only a few kilometres from his home.

After he did not come home for lunch that afternoon, family members went to the farm to find him.

Their search was unsuccessful, with Mr Wills reported as missing the next day.

Two days later, on April 7, the 65-year-old father of five was found buried in a shallow grave on the property.

In the week of Mr Wills's death, Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Trewavas, from the Missing Persons Squad, said there was evidence Mr Wills had been dragged behind a vehicle on the farm before he was fatally shot.

Police also said they suspected that a person who knew Mr Wills was responsible.

Two months on from Mr Wills's death, his family, and the wider Ouyen community, remain in limbo, with no further updates from police other than the investigation remains active and ongoing.

Richard Wills was found shot and buried at a rural property in Ouyen. (ABC News: Nethma Dandeniya)

Mr Wills's family told the ABC police had not provided any information about the investigation to his family since a public appeal, alongside Mr Wills's wife, Donna Wills, a week after his death.

Other than written responses to media inquiries, that was the first and last time police had spoken publicly about the case.

The family said any questions they had asked police since then had been responded to with "we can't say".

In response to those statements, Vict