Found Deceased Australia - Melissa Caddick, 49, Sydney, NSW, 12 Nov 2020 #6

[they'll get you]

Paraphrased ...

Professor John Hilton and Professor Johan Duflou are the forensic pathologists sharing their views. Both have been forensic pathologists for a long time, have worked many autopsies, including Bali bombings and other notable cases.

Prof Hilton says it is possible to retrieve recognisable body parts after being in the ocean for a few months in the ocean. You don't see it often, but it can happen.
Ligaments are pretty tough and can hold the bones together, and the neoprene of the shoe would help.
He says what the shoe is made of will decide if barnacles will attach to the shoe or not.

Prof Duflou says with the entire foot in the shoe it can start to mummify or progress to skeletonised.
It is common to find the foot in the shoe, and the shoe can to detach from the rest of the body.

They both find it 'remarkable' that only the foot was found, nothing else.

Prof Hilton says with a ginormous coast and ocean, it is remarkable that the foot came bobbing along and washed up.
He wonders if Melissa died closer to where the foot was found, if something more sinister happened.

Prof Duflou agrees it is possible that Melissa was moved.
He is surprised that a foot would end up so far from Dover Heights, and he thinks it is not the worst idea for the police take a closer look for Melissa's body in the area where the foot was found.

How long was it that AK was out ‘searching’ for Melissa?
Is there camera footage of this search?

 

[Trooper]

How long was it that AK was out ‘searching’ for Melissa?
Is there camera footage of this search?

Hours, he says.. Went to 'all the beauty spots that they both loved'... says Anthony. This was after waiting 24 hours. These places are beauty spots indeed, and as such, are used by people, such as Anthony and Melissa , to gaze upon the view and each other. Anthony and Melissa didn't invent these places. All of Sydney strolls around them all the time, camera's to the left and to the right.

So there must be clips of Anthony, in either of their cars, checking these places out while he is 'searching for Melissa'.. no getting away from it. There are very few places to skulk around , because you are searching on prime real estate, and that is Sydney's religion. The city planners have made these lovely places impossible to hide in, or be unseen.

It would be difficult to believe that every camera at Rose Bay Ferry terminal, Watsons Bay ferry, The Gap, Double Bay ferry, Elizabeth Bay foreshore , Vaucluse, Parsley Bay, was out of action at that time. These are the places he said he went mooning about 'looking for Melissa'..

 

[Trooper]

That necklace. She must have ordered it around July, August, September, last year, for it to be ready for pickup in early November. So, not her birthday perhaps , ( which is in April). .. early-ish for Xmas, anniversary?.. of something.

And this is assuming she ordered it, and she paid for it, not that someone else did in her name as a gift AND ponied up $100,000.00 on a promise of who-only-knows. I don't give a lot of credence to that theory.

And then, she didn't pick it up. Neither did Anthony, or the brother, or mum or dad. Nobody collected it. It just sat there.

She obviously had a real passion for expensive jewels, .. she was prepared to steal anyone blind to acquire the jewels. She wore them, and had outfits to complement them. Yet she didn't pick up this unique necklace.

 

[SouthAussie]

How long was it that AK was out ‘searching’ for Melissa?
Is there camera footage of this search?

For more than 30 hours Anthony Koletti, the husband of missing Sydney woman Melissa Caddick, didn’t tell her family or police that his wife had vanished without taking her phone or wallet.

“The f---wit hasn’t told us anything,” Ms Caddick’s brother Adam Grimley told a family friend when she rang him just after 4pm on Friday, November 13.

“He was upset and angry that Anthony hadn’t reported her missing and that he hadn’t contacted her family,” said Mr Grimley’s friend. Mr Koletti said he’d spent Thursday driving around, visiting their favourite spots, looking for his wife, Mr Grimley said.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...and-the-missing-millions-20201225-p56q5b.html


I also recall reading that AK went to the clifftops looking for Melissa, at around 8am on the Thursday. And it didn't say if he walked or drove there to do that. But I am unable to find the link at the moment, so take that for what it is worth.
One would think that clifftop CCTV might have seen him doing that, or not doing that.

 

[stormbird]

Melissa Caddick shoe mystery stuns forensic experts
Top forensic pathologists debunk much of the speculation about the survival of Melissa Caddick’s shoe but remain as intrigued as everyone else about how it was found.

No Cookies | Daily Telegraph

Behind a paywall.

Alternative link via @dailytelegraph (which might work for non-subscribers with browser cleared of history and cookies): Forensic experts examine what we know about Melissa Caddick’s foot, shoe, Saturday Telegraph, 13 March 2021

 

[BlueViolet]

I managed to read the article ... it says “The coast is ginormous and the ocean ever more so, and so why would it come bobbing up on that particular beach at that time.”

I have wondered this too! Wasn’t it about the time an arrest warrant was going to be issued. Another article I found said “An arrest warrant was issued for missing Sydney conwoman Melissa Caddick a day after campers found shoe”

 

[TootsieFootsie]

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While many have wondered how human remains could still be intact inside a shoe after three months in the water, Prof Hilton said it was possible, despite the ocean being filled with predators and scavengers.

“You can get recognisable body parts after a few months in the ocean. It is not the thing you’d necessarily expect, nor do you see it often, but it can happen,” Prof Hilton said.

He did not agree with suggestions that the shoe would have had barnacles on it if it had indeed been in the water for 12 weeks.

 

[SouthAussie]

He did not agree with suggestions that the shoe would have had barnacles on it if it had indeed been in the water for 12 weeks.

The qualifier being that it would depend on what the shoe was made of, as per the article.
Though he didn't go on to say what materials would make the shoe less susceptible to barnacles (or green slime/seaweed).

There wasn't even green slime or barnacles on the laces, that I could see. And they wouldn't have been made of neoprene.

 

[SouthAussie]

I managed to read the article ... it says “The coast is ginormous and the ocean ever more so, and so why would it come bobbing up on that particular beach at that time.”

I have wondered this too! Wasn’t it about the time an arrest warrant was going to be issued. Another article I found said “An arrest warrant was issued for missing Sydney conwoman Melissa Caddick a day after campers found shoe”

Yes. Because I wondered why the court would have issued an arrest warrant when there was an indication that Melissa might be deceased (they were yet to confirm her DNA). Why not wait a few days?

But then I thought they might not want to wait because an arrest warrant should/would have given them more search warrant powers. Which they certainly needed. imo

Or possibly the left hand wasn't talking to the right hand iykwim.

 

[JLZ]

I managed to read the article ... it says “The coast is ginormous and the ocean ever more so, and so why would it come bobbing up on that particular beach at that time.”

I have wondered this too! Wasn’t it about the time an arrest warrant was going to be issued. Another article I found said “An arrest warrant was issued for missing Sydney conwoman Melissa Caddick a day after campers found shoe”

He is saying that it's not especially astonishing that the shoe ended up where it did, direction and strength of currents being what they are, but that anyone found it at all on that huge coastline, and "at that time"--I thought he meant, so quickly, as opposed to many years hence.

 

[BlueViolet]

Sorry, double post, am a bit distracted this morning but still trying to participate here.

 

[minime9]

Yeah I do think it’s possible she acted alone. She had employees but they weren’t privy to her fraud schemes.

Once she figured out how to modify one commsec document the rest would have been largely automated, just changing numbers and figures.

It’s not like she had thousands of clients.

Also if I can raise 2 dependants, do the majority of the housework, work part time for an employer & work on my own business at home then she can do this scam alone. Don’t forget she also had employees, her own chef, cleaners etc.

Do you really believe this woman acted alone and single-handedly, while raising a child and being a lover to a husband?
I mean, she seems like she was a powerhouse. I just can't understand how not one accountant or lawyer or financier etc didn't raise an eyebrow. I just think at least one other human being was aware of her scheme or parts of it, for whatever period of time.

And, if she DID orchestrate this entire thing and conduct it alone, then she is evil and I'm sorry but idgaf that she is gone.

I've encountered narcissists in my 30+ years that did things so absolutely disgusting that even my own mother failed to believe me when I told her about them.
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My money's on AK being a nasty piece of work. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out he played a role in her disappearance/possible murder.

Now, it may be that he WAS a victim of narcissistic abuse (which btw is something so unforgivable in its soul crushing, insidious nature that I pity none who have victimised people in this way, whatever their misfortune) before the ASIC raid etc BUT that doesn't mean he didn't snap and reveal darker sides of his nature that had, until recently, had nothing to release them onto the world.

I saw one photo, just one, of AK that told me a lot. I have been known to read faces, usually getting no validation of my accuracy until AFTER someone suffers as a result of the person who I looked at and said, "no good."

I'll try find said photo to post for everyone.

 

[BlueViolet]

I am wondering if the police don’t want to put too much of their resources into this.

 

[SouthAussie]

I am wondering if the police don’t want to put too much of their resources into this.

There was always a fight about that in the William Tyrrell case. The longer the case went on, the more that detectives were needed somewhere else ... to work on the ongoing and new crimes.

If it wasn't for Jubes fighting for the manpower for William's case, it would have been far depleted a lot sooner.

That case taught us how the administration steps in when they feel enough time/money has been spent investigating a single case.

The sad thing is that these officers were investigating Melissa running away. I don't think as much investigative time would have been put into Melissa possibly being murdered - due to the CCTV they gathered from departure points, etc, and had to review.
And now it could be that the timer has run out, or is running out.

 

[JLZ]

Yeah I do think it’s possible she acted alone. She had employees but they weren’t privy to her fraud schemes.

Once she figured out how to modify one commsec document the rest would have been largely automated, just changing numbers and figures.

It’s not like she had thousands of clients.

Also if I can raise 2 dependants, do the majority of the housework, work part time for an employer & work on my own business at home then she can do this scam alone. Don’t forget she also had employees, her own chef, cleaners etc.

I agree, except for one or two facilitators who knew enough to divert their eyes.

 

[BlueViolet]

Yeah, different resources when looking for an innocent, defenceless little boy and a woman who defrauded friends & family.

There was another ponzi scheme thru the horse racing industry and the police didn’t want to know about it.

 

[BlueViolet]

I know it’s different but you might want to still read about it ... Horse-racing Ponzi victims search for their missing millions

 

[BlueViolet]

Woman injured in shark attack off Merimbula beach on NSW south coast

Wallagoot Lake is down that way. While they are looking today they might find something.

 

[SLouTh]

He wonders if Melissa died closer to where the foot was found, if something more sinister happened.

Prof Duflou agrees it is possible that Melissa was moved.
He is surprised that a foot would end up so far from Dover Heights, and he thinks it is not the worst idea for the police take a closer look for Melissa's body in the area where the foot was found.

This is where I hope the investigation is now at......

 

[JLZ]

I know it’s different but you might want to still read about it ... Horse-racing Ponzi victims search for their missing millions

Well worth reading; thank you.