Melissa Caddick’s husband was suspected of being involved in her inexplicable disappearance, her inquest was informed a day after her abduction.
Monday, Louise Coleman, a junior counsel assisting the inquiry, stated that three police officers who took Anthony Koletti’s missing person’s report had reservations about the information he presented.
Sergeant Trent Riley stated in July 2021 that Mr. Koletti had told him “many untruths” and that his account had been altered numerous times.
Mr. Koletti was present in the NSW Coroners Court in Lidcombe, along with his wife’s parents, Barbara and Ted Grimley, and brother, Adam Grimley, to testify at his wife’s inquest.
The inquest was informed that an expert analysis examining the growth of barnacles on Ms. Caddick’s shoe determined that it spent between two and three days and no more than one week floating in the ocean.
One day after the disappearance of the fraudster Melissa Caddick, her inquest was informed that her husband Anthony Koletti was a suspect in her inexplicable disappearance.
An expert assessment examining barnacle growth on Ms. Caddick’s washed-up shoe (shown) indicated it spent between two and three days and no more than one week floating in the ocean, the inquest was informed.
A forensic pathologist was unable to identify whether Ms. Caddick’s foot was split by blunt force, sharp force, or decomposition before it washed up on Bournda Beach on the state’s southern coast.
Ms. Coleman informed Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan that it is “very implausible” that Ms. Caddick amputated her own foot, with or without the assistance of a non-medically qualified individual, to stage her disappearance.
In addition, her diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder and criticisms of the NSW police inquiry will be investigated.
The crime scene was not created until 19 days after her disappearance was reported.
On November 11, 2020, the Australian Federal Police and Australian Securities and Investments Commission executed a search warrant at her Dover Heights house in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
The last confirmed sighting of Ms. Caddick.
Mr. Koletti reported his wife missing to police approximately 28 hours after she left the house to go for a walk or jog.
Monday, September 12th, Anthony Koletti, the husband of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick, appears at the Lidcombe Coroners Court in Sydney for the inquest into her death.
Melissa Caddick and her husband Anthony Koletti are shown in Aspen, Colorado, during a ski trip.
On November 13, attending officers discovered Mr. Koletti in a “calm, relaxed, and seemingly unconcerned manner… unlike any other missing person report I had previously received.”
The inquest was informed that Ms Caddick’s mother says her daughter was not allowed food or water for the duration of the search warrant and holds ASIC accountable for her presumed death.
However, this has been contested as Ms. Caddick was not under custody at the time, was permitted to move freely and leave if she desired, showed no signs of mental illness, and made herself a protein shake in the morning.
Ms. Caddick’s marriage to Tony Caddick ended in 2012 due to her affair with her hairdresser, Mr. Koletti.
She allegedly told her brother Adam, “If everything gets too much for me, you’ll find me at The Gap” in reference to this period.
Caddick is shown on November 11 during the ASIC-AFP raid of her Dover Heights residence.
Koletti’s $300,000 Audi R8 is photographed at McMahon’s Point on Sydney’s lower north coast.
Another friend reported that Ms. Caddick told her to write down a four-letter code to provide to Adam if she went missing.
According to Ms. Caddick’s friends, she walked to the Dover Heights cliffs when she was under great financial stress in late 2020.
“If I’m going to end it, it will be here,” Ms. Caddick told her companion, according to her recollection.
Her victims, who were primarily relatives and friends, lost between $20 and $30 million as a result of her Ponzi scam, which she used to fund her extravagant lifestyle and excessive spending on fine jewelry, designer clothing, abroad vacations, and multimillion-dollar residences.
Her clients assumed she would invest their life savings on their behalf, therefore she forged paperwork to give the impression that this was the case.
Ms. Caddick ordered shredding services in September 2020, three months before to her disappearance, prompting an examination of her knowledge of the ASIC probe.
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