The search for the remains of missing Dover Heights woman Melissa Caddick has been widened after human remains were found on Mollymook Beach last Friday night.
NSW Police have confirmed they have expanded the hunt for the Sydney businesswoman. Teams have been combing Cunjurong Point, Mollymook and Tathra on the NSW South Coast today. The search was assisted by SES members.
Composite of Melissa Caddick and the shoe and foot (inset) found on a South Coast beach.Credit:SMH, Seven News
A police spokesman said the remains found at Mollymook had not yet been linked to Ms Caddick and that it was usual for DNA testing to take up to a week.
The Mollymook find came just days after Ms Caddick’s badly decomposed foot in an ASICS running shoe was found at Bournda Beach, near Tathra, last Sunday.
Over the past three months, the 49-year-old has been at the centre of a major Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation into allegations she misappropriated more than $20 million from investors, who were led to believe they were making great returns from share investments when instead, their funds were going into her personal accounts.
Ms Caddick disappeared in the early hours of Thursday, November 12.
Other than her family, members of the Australian Federal Police were the last people to see Ms Caddick alive. They left her Dover Heights home at around 7pm on Wednesday, November 1, after executing a search warrant on behalf of ASIC.
Bizarrely, she had previously camped at the same location her foot was discovered on school excursions, classmates from Peakhurst High School told the Herald.
Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing said the shoe, a dark grey ASICS Gel Nimbus 22, matched the size and description of the running shoes Ms Caddick was wearing when police raided her home.
“[The foot] had been in the water for some time. Scientists were able to extract DNA from the foot and match it to a sample of DNA that we had already obtained from a toothbrush belonging to Melissa and from her relatives,” he said.
Flowers were left outside the Caddick residence in Dover Heights over the weekend.
Crisis support can be found at Lifeline: (13 11 14 and lifeline.org.au), the Suicide Call Back Service (1300 659 467 and suicidecallbackservice.org.au) and beyondblue (1300 22 4636 and beyondblue.org.au)
Amelia McGuire is a producer at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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