Aussies proceed to invest whether or not Melissa Caddick is alive and in hiding nearly 4 years after the infamous fraudster disappeared.
Caddick, 49, vanished on November 12, 2020, after she fleeced $30million from traders together with her household and buddies whereas working as a monetary adviser.
Police declared the case closed after a foot that matched Caddick’s DNA washed up on Bournda Seashore, 500km south of Sydney on the NSW South Coast, in early 2021.
They imagine Caddick took her personal life by leaping from cliffs close to her Dover Heights mansion in Sydney’s japanese suburbs simply hours after Australian Securities and Investments Fee brokers raided her residence.
Then, in Might 2023, NSW deputy coroner Elizabeth Ryan dominated that Caddick was deceased however famous there wasn’t sufficient proof to find out how she had died.
Melissa Caddick, 49, vanished on November 12, 2020 after she fleeced $30million from traders, together with her household and buddies, whereas working as a monetary adviser
She stated Caddick would have contacted her son, who she beloved dearly, within the time since her disappearance.
Regardless of the coroner’s ruling, the query of what occurred to Caddick continues to play on the minds of hundreds of Australians together with prison psychologist Tim Watson-Munro.
‘The entire story is dodgy in my opinion,’ he advised Day by day Mail Australia on Monday.
‘I do not know if she’s alive or deceased. I made a remark a few years in the past that with that kind of cash, you may organise absolutely anything surgically.
‘However of all of the seashores on this planet for the shoe to clean up along with her foot in it. All of that simply struck me as an enormous coincidence.
‘All issues thought of, the degradation of the shoe wasn’t nice, however there are a variety of theories that have been raised, one was that she might have met foul play.
‘The shoe might have been planted to show that she was deceased or that she’d gone out to sea.
‘Who is aware of? Extra possible than not she’s deceased. That is my view. How has she died? That is speculative, whether or not it was by suicide or by foul play.’
Felony psychologist Dr Tim Watson-Munro is pictured
Mr Watson-Munro defined that lacking criminals who have been found to be nonetheless alive have been normally discovered attributable to a easy mistake they or a 3rd celebration made.
‘It is both a postcode, a stamp or a cellphone name that alerts the authorities to the likelihood that they’re alive in addition to their actual geographical location,’ he stated.
‘You’ll have thought, she has a son, the son could be inquisitive about her.
‘However I’d say, with out being too brutal for somebody who’s deceased and to a household which has skilled immense loss and trauma, that her son did not appear to be looming massive in her decision-making when she disappeared.
‘I’ve clearly not spoken to the son so I am talking normally rules, not particular phrases to him. However when children lose moms or fathers in mysterious circumstances, there can by no means actually be foreclosures.’
Caddick is pictured along with her hairdresser and DJ husband Anthony Koletti in happier instances
Caddick is believed to have left her residence in Sydney’s japanese suburbs hours after an ASIC raid
Mr Watson-Munro stated that though shedding a foot may appear excessive to some folks, it paled when in comparison with serving a ten to 15-year jail sentence.
‘She may afford a very good surgeon who may maybe take away the foot and have a prosthetic foot made that is becoming and cozy,’ he stated.
‘Now, for some that will appear fairly drastic however if you’re confronted with what she was dealing with when it comes to in all probability many years in jail, actually greater than 10 to fifteen years, you’d suppose for that amount of cash, it is a softer possibility.
‘She was the queen of the con, the Queen of the Ponzi scheme.
‘By way of character, I’ve not examined her, however from what I’ve learn and noticed, there isn’t any actual regret if you begin ripping off relations.
‘And if you’ve deserted a son at a really susceptible age, you actually must query that complete challenge of the maternal bond versus self-interest.’
Dozens of Australians have shared their very own theories in devoted boards reminiscent of the favored Fb web page ‘Melissa Caddick is Alive and in Hiding’.
One principle stated: ‘She is alive and residing abroad, she had the cash for brand new ID to be organised. She is going to see her son after he’s 18 and sufficiently old to journey alone undetected by the general public.’
In Might 2023, NSW deputy coroner Elizabeth Ryan dominated that Caddick (pictured with Koletti) was deceased however that there wasn’t sufficient proof to find out how she had died
A second added: ‘With all the cash she had and the kind of particular person she is, she would have had plan B all deliberate out and he or she might be residing wherever with a completely new id and prosthetic foot. Not too laborious to think about actually!?’
A 3rd stated: ‘Undoubtedly not useless, if she was good sufficient to rob her household and buddies with out them understanding, she’s good sufficient to to have escaped with out detection underneath the duvet of darkness.
‘When years have handed and he or she is a reminiscence, her companion and son will go to the place she is. She could have a brand new id and possibly cash from off shore investments.’
A fourth added: ‘Anybody can simply hop on a 40ft cruiser, sail out previous the heads and keep away from customs. She had the cash to rent or purchase a ship. Appears possible.
‘I believe she is alive, had her foot eliminated. She is abroad residing a quiet non unique life.’
One other added: ‘Nonetheless rich however not flashy. New face and a few surgical procedure to mix in the place ever she is. Her husband was only a pawn in her recreation of life. She is going to name for her son when he can journey with out an grownup abroad.
‘However truthfully the place ever she is she was a horrible particular person.’
