Found Deceased Australia - Karen Ristevski, 47, Melbourne, Vic, 29 June 2016 - #17 *Arrest*

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Questions linger after Borce Ristevski admits to killing his wife

Sarah Ristevski was not in court on Wednesday when her father entered his guilty plea. Nor were any members of the victims’ family. The courtroom was largely empty because nobody was expecting what unfolded.

Today, on Mr Ristevski’s birthday, she will no doubt experience mixed feelings all over again.
 
Questions linger after Borce Ristevski admits to killing his wife

Sarah Ristevski was not in court on Wednesday when her father entered his guilty plea. Nor were any members of the victims’ family. The courtroom was largely empty because nobody was expecting what unfolded.

Today, on Mr Ristevski’s birthday, she will no doubt experience mixed feelings all over again.

Poor Karen was a marked woman the moment she inherited the money from her parents. It must have driven Vlasko mad, as well as Borce that she didn't pay off Borce's debts and bankruptcy stuff , a lot of which was owed to Vlasko, and if Sarah has inherited anything from her mother, and Vlasko is still strutting about , free as a bird, well.... Dr S.. if I was Sarah , I'd be heading for Reykjavic today, one way ticket.
 
Does BR needs to prove he did it or his admission is good enough?

What would have happened in case 3 people came forward (SR, VR and BR) all claiming to be killers in order to confuse and make it virtually impossible for anyone determine beyond reasonable doubt who actually did it?
 
Does BR needs to prove he did it or his admission is good enough?

What would have happened in case 3 people came forward (SR, VR and BR) all claiming to be killers in order to confuse and make it virtually impossible for anyone determine beyond reasonable doubt who actually did it?

Perhaps all 3 were involved, in someway or another.
MOO.
 
Does BR needs to prove he did it or admission is good enough?

What would have happened in case 3 people came forward (SR, VR and BR) all claiming to be killers in order to confuse and make it virtually impossible for anyone determine beyond reasonable doubt who actually did it?
It doesn't have to be proved by anyone now. BR has been charged and he's pleaded guilty. The only question is how he should be punished, so how bad he's been and how that compares with similar cases so he can be given a sentence that's fair in relation to theirs.

If the others started bothering the police with patently false confessions, I don't know, they might be warned that they could be charged with something or other for the nuisance value. And after the years of investigation, the police would recognize a lie. Unless they were confessing to helping Borce, in which case, charge them as accessories. But Borce is going down.
 
Does BR needs to prove he did it or his admission is good enough?

What would have happened in case 3 people came forward (SR, VR and BR) all claiming to be killers in order to confuse and make it virtually impossible for anyone determine beyond reasonable doubt who actually did it?


highly probable that all three would be charged and probably convicted with conspiracy to murder, AND murder, talk about heaping coals on one's own head. There'd be no confusion logically, since all three would have to have been there at the time she died, at the same place where she died, and all three would have had to be there where she was buried.

Or one would have to bring the body back to the house after leaving it among the logs, and the next one would have to take it back to the logs and bring it back, and so on. You can see the problem.

Not sayin' that isn't an improbable scenario... with these kind of people, nothing is too abhorrent. Or too nuts.
 
Karen Ristevski: The mystery that gripped Melbourne is finally solved

By Tom Cowie

March 13, 2019 — 11.30pm

For more than two and a half years, everyone thought it was him. He denied it. But he was lying.

Just one day before the most anticipated murder trial of the year was to begin, Borce Ristevski has sensationally pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his wife Karen.

The killer's admission, so late that a jury was being empaneled, finally provides an answer to the mystery that has gripped Melbourne since Karen vanished in June 2016.

Until Wednesday in the Supreme Court, Borce had staunchly maintained, in the face of intense scrutiny, that he had nothing to do with Karen’s death. The couple's only daughter Sarah, who gave favourable evidence for her father at an earlier court hearing, now has to cope with the reality that it was him all along.

The case against Borce was circumstantial but it pointed to no one except him.

The heat increased quickly as police focused their investigation, as they often do, on the victim’s partner and the person who saw them last. In both instances, that was Borce.

From the earliest days when Karen was still considered a missing person, he faced questions about whether he killed her. At a press conference appealing for help from the public, with his daughter standing next to him, he was asked by a reporter directly: "Did you kill Karen, Borce?"

The case was front-page news and the hot topic of conversation in every city cafe.

There was a multitude of theories that helped fuel the intrigue: Borce reportedly told family members a stranger might have taken her; his brother Vasko claimed she had fled overseas using a fake passport; her stepson told police the marriage was fake and that she had planned to leave. All turned out to be red herrings.

Even after Karen’s decomposed body was found between two logs in bushland at Mount Macedon in February 2017, Borce maintained the appearance of a loving husband devastated about what had happened to his wife.

He was a pallbearer at her funeral, carrying the casket out the doors of St John's Uniting Church in Essendon in front of a tearful family, many of whom thought he was the killer.

Karen's aunt, Patricia Gray, told police that she thought Borce’s account of his movements on the day of her disappearance was "flimsy". Even his lawyer said he was "suspect No. 1". Police finally laid a murder charge in December 2017.

At a committal hearing, prosecutors alleged Karen was murdered in their Avondale Heights home after an argument about money before Borce drove the body up the Calder Highway to Mount Macedon.

After reporting her disappearance, he told police that she had gone for a walk and the last thing she said to him was: "I can't talk to you right now. I am going to clear my head."

The couple were mired in more than $1 million in debt, with their clothing business Bella Bleu racking up losses of $326,000 between 2012 and 2016. There was also a credit card debt, a mortgage and other loans.

Without a cause of death and no forensic evidence to show a jury, police built their case on a combination of CCTV footage and pings to mobile phone towers that would show Borce had driven Karen’s black Mercedes Benz on the day of her disappearance.

Borce initially kept this detail from police, one of a number of actions that would prompt a prosecutor to accuse him of withholding information and fabricating facts to "distance himself from the crime".

To begin with, he claimed to have stayed at home and then went out later for a shift as an Uber driver.

Five days after Karen’s disappearance, Borce told investigators that he drove the Mercedes on the Calder Freeway towards Gisborne as part of a trip to get fuel and visit the clothing store, before he turned around and went home. The trip lasted 80 minutes, he said.

But police believed he was away for longer than that, calculating it at two hours and 19 minutes. Enough time, they figured, for him to spend 20 minutes at the park to hide a body.

There were other oddities that made this case stranger than most true crime sagas. Perhaps the strangest was a TV crew from A Current Affair spotting Vasko Ristevski metres from where Karen’s remains were found months earlier.

Borce’s daughter Sarah became a tragic figure who faced the prospect of losing both parents, one to her grave and another to a jail cell. Everyone looked to her and wondered how she could cope with the strain. She had celebrated her 21st birthday only a month before her mother’s death.

In public, there was no sign that she was going to implicate her father.

At a court hearing last July, she said her mother was the more aggressive in her parents' relationship and that she would sometimes go for walks to clear her head.

In the days after her mother went missing, however, she was a wreck. She called Karen’s phone and continually checked Whatsapp to see if she had logged in.

What she didn’t know is that Borce had deactivated both his and his wife’s phones

"What happened?" she asked her father, according to a police statement.

Borce replied: "You know what she gets like when she gets onto one thing and then onto another and continues it."

At all of his court hearings, Borce maintained a steely gaze under the white-hot spotlight that comes with a murder accusation.

Through it all, he denied killing his wife. Finally, he has admitted the truth.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/vic...bourne-is-finally-solved-20190313-p513yp.html
 
Don't think we ever heard if Karen had a life insurance policy? It will interesting to find out as that would be a huge motive as well.
It's probable that they may have had to have one , in consideration of their borrowings, and mortgage, but it's just as likely that the genius Borce 'forgot' to pay the premiums.

Not a bright boy, by any stretch.
 
Don't think we ever heard if Karen had a life insurance policy? It will interesting to find out as that would be a huge motive as well.

Nocookies



Although Borce and Karen regularly argued, their daughter told the court the arguments were never violent. Their financial pressures had not become more acute in the lead-up to Karen’s death. Ristevski did not stand to benefit financially from killing his wife.
 
Judging on where and the body was disposed this was not planned or premeditated, if this was planned in advance you would think corpse would be buried somewhere never to be found.

IMO this was freaky accident as arguing got out of control, BR snapped then panicked , adrenaline rush, enormous pressure as BR has to think fast but brain is freezing
 
news.com.au article re Anthony
"Borce Ristevski’s son Anthony Rickard drops bombshell"
i'm still pretty new to the forum (and to the forum rules) am i permitted to produce full articles here??
Anthony states that it was him that encouraged BR to plead guilty.
You can provide a link and a percentage of content. So go into the article highlight the most important part, copy and paste.
 
AR is taking credit for BR's confession
Son claims his relationship with stepmother was behind guilty plea


"I am responsible for this, I gave him an ultimatum,” Mr Rickard told news.com.au in a phone call this morning.

“I told him; ‘If you don’t get up and be a man I’ll go into the (witness) box and tell them exactly what went on behind closed doors’.”

By “behind closed doors”, Mr Rickard says he is referring to a long-running sexual relationship with his stepmother he alleges began when his father took him in as a troubled teenager."


Looks like an affair was real
 
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