Australia MELISSA CADDICK: Missing from Sydney, NSW - 12 Nov 2020 - Age 49 *Found Deceased*

Sydney woman missing for a week, after AFP raid on her home

NSW detectives are treating the mysterious disappearance of a businesswoman from her cliff-top mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs as suspicious.

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NSW detectives are treating the mysterious disappearance of a businesswoman from her cliff-top mansion in Sydney’s eastern suburbs as suspicious.

Melissa Caddick left her Dover Heights home early last Friday morning and is believed to have gone for a run, but didn’t take her wallet, keys, or mobile phone.

Three days before she vanished, Australian Federal Police raided her Wallangra Road property as part of an ongoing investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Documents obtained by the ABC reveal the 49-year-old was served court orders recently preventing her from leaving Australia or selling any of her assets.

On Friday, Detective Inspector Gretchin Atkins urged anyone in the area to check their CCTV or dashcam to help with the investigation.

“We have some serious concerns for her personal safety – she did not take any of her personal belongings,” she said.

“She hasn’t been in touch with her husband, her son, her family or any of her friends since and we’re actually appealing to anybody who has seen anything.”

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Sydney woman missing for a week went for a run without keys or phone days after AFP raided her home

Melissa Caddick hasn't been seen since she left her Sydney mansion early last Thursday. The 49-year-old's home was raided by the AFP the day before she vanished as part of an ongoing ASIC investigation.

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Disappearance of Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick treated as suspicious​

NSW detectives are treating the mysterious disappearance of a businesswoman from her cliff-top home in Sydney's eastern suburbs as suspicious.

On Friday, Detective Inspector Gretchen Atkins urged anyone in the area to check their CCTV or dashcam to help with the investigation.

Her husband, Anthony Koletti, remained composed when he fronted the media on Friday during a public appeal for information outside Bondi Police Station.

He described her disappearance as "extremely out of character".

"Melissa is a dedicated and incredible mother, a beautiful daughter, sister and loved wife — we are asking the community to help bring Melissa home — that is all," he said, reading from a statement.

Mr Koletti said he was asleep when his wife left their home about 5:30am last Thursday.


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Inside the remarkable true story of fraudster Melissa Caddick

On November 12, 2020, Australian woman Melissa Caddick set off for a run but never returned. She was being investigated by the country's financial watchdog for stealing from investors.

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Inside the remarkable true story of fraudster Melissa Caddick dubbed 'con artist of the century' after stealing over £15M from friends and family - as ITV drama Vanishing Act airs​

On November 12, 2020, Australian woman Melissa Caddick set off for a run but never returned.

It emerged that she was being investigated by the country's financial watchdog after she was suspected of stealing roughly £15million while posing as a qualified financial advisor - with her own friends and family her main victims.

ITV are releasing a three-part docuseries about the 'con artist of the century' called Vanishing Act, beginning on December 18 after a long stint only being available to stream on ITVX.

 

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Fraudster Melissa Caddick's designer clothing, art heading for auction

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Fraudster Melissa Caddick's designer clothing, art heading for auction​

Designer clothing, art and footwear that once belonged to fraudster Melissa Caddick, who disappeared in November 2020 and was found in 2023 by a coroner to have died in unknown circumstances, is headed for auction.

Auctioneer Shapiros will host the online bidding tomorrow, February 8, from 6pm.

Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana: conwoman's luxury wardrobe auctioned

Estate auction after Melissa Caddick's 2020 disappearance.

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Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana: conwoman's luxury wardrobe auctioned​

Luxurious designer clothes from the wardrobe of conwoman Melissa Caddick is on sale from a Sydney auction house to recover money for her victims.

 

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Astonishing Melissa Caddick theory emerges after she vanished

The question of what happened to missing conwoman Melissa Caddick continues to play on the minds of thousands of Australians, including criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro.

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Astonishing Melissa Caddick theory reemerges four years after she vanished without a trace - so could the conwoman still be alive?​

Aussies continue to speculate whether Melissa Caddick is alive and in hiding almost four years after the notorious fraudster disappeared.

Police declared the case closed after a foot that matched Caddick's DNA washed up on Bournda Beach, 500km south of Sydney on the NSW South Coast, in early 2021.

They believe Caddick took her own life by jumping from cliffs near her Dover Heights mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs just hours after Australian Securities and Investments Commission agents raided her home.

Then, in May 2023, NSW deputy coroner Elizabeth Ryan ruled that Caddick was deceased but noted there wasn't enough evidence to determine how she had died.


Despite the coroner's ruling, the question of what happened to Caddick continues to play on the minds of thousands of Australians including criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro.

'The whole story is dodgy in my view,' he told Daily Mail Australia on Monday.

'I don't know if she's alive or deceased. I made a comment a couple of years ago that with that sort of money, you could organise just about anything surgically.

'But of all the beaches in the world for the shoe to wash up with her foot in it. All of that just struck me as a huge coincidence.

'All things considered, the degradation of the shoe wasn't great, but there are a number of theories that were raised, one was that she may have met foul play.

'The shoe may have been planted to prove that she was deceased or that she'd gone out to sea.

'Who knows? More likely than not she's deceased. That's my view. How has she died? That's speculative, whether it was by suicide or by foul play.'

Mr Watson-Munro said that although losing a foot might seem extreme to some people, it paled when compared to serving a 10 to 15-year prison sentence.

'She could afford a good surgeon who could perhaps remove the foot and have a prosthetic foot made that's fitting and comfortable,' he said.

'Now, for some that may seem pretty drastic but when you're faced with what she was facing in terms of probably decades in prison, certainly more than 10 to 15 years, you would think for that amount of money, it's a softer option.

'She was the queen of the con, the Queen of the Ponzi scheme.


Dozens of Australians have shared their own theories in dedicated forums such as the popular Facebook page 'Melissa Caddick is Alive and in Hiding'.

One theory said: 'She is alive and living overseas, she had the money for new ID to be organised. She will see her son after he is 18 and old enough to travel alone undetected by the public.'

A second added: 'With all the money she had and the type of person she is, she would have had plan B all planned out and she could be living anywhere with a totally new identity and prosthetic foot. Not too hard to imagine really!?'

A third said: 'Definitely not dead, if she was smart enough to rob her family and friends without them knowing, she's smart enough to to have escaped without detection under the cover of darkness.

 

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No one's convinced me she's dead.