Police Now Think Melissa Caddick Could Have Been On The Run For ‘Weeks’ Before Her Death

Melissa Caddick

As police discover more human remains around NSW’s South Coast, the picture around alleged conwoman Melissa Caddick‘s final days is becoming clearer. On Friday, police confirmed that campers on Hobart Beach had found Caddick’s decomposing foot still inside her Asics running shoe, and over the weekend, bones and other remains have been discovered.

The ABC reports that NSW Police are now expanding their search across beaches on the South Coast after human bones were found at Tura Beach on Saturday. They are currently with NSW Police for testing to determine whether they are the remains of 49-year-old Melissa Caddick, who disappeared after leaving her Dover Heights house for a run on November 12 last year.

Earlier on the weekend a part of a human torso including a belly button was found on Mollymook Beach, and according to News Corp, police say that remains resembling human intestines were found at Cunjurong Point, north of Mollymook Beach. Forensic testing is underway to determine whether they can be linked to Melissa Caddick, with the relatively “fresh” state of the remains opening up new theories around her death, with News Corp saying that detectives believe she might have been “on the run for weeks before her death”.

A report in The Daily Telegraph points out that detectives have done modelling to see how far her remains could float, and there are “serious doubts they could have drifted that far” — that is, from Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs where Melissa Caddick lived to the NSW Far South Coast.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Commander of the NSW Marine Command, Superintendent Joe McNulty says of the shoe and foot that were confirmed to be those of Melissa Caddick: “Something in the water for that long, say a bit of flotsam or jetsam that washes on to the shore, has got green growth on. At first examination the shoe doesn’t appear to have been in the water for three months. The shoe needs extensive analysis to see how long it was in the water. It’s a vital clue where hopefully marine biology can provide some answers.”

Superintendent McNulty, who led the marine search for Melissa Caddick after her November 12 disappearance, added: “It is really irregular for bodies that may have entered the ocean at the Gap or Dover Heights to end up on the south coast. Usually they wash up in the bottom corner of Maroubra Beach before the Botany Bay headland and that is normally with in a couple of days.”

Melissa Caddick disappeared having taken millions of dollars from investors, and was under investigation by the Australian Federal Police before her husband Andrew Koletti reported her missing on November 13.

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