Found Deceased Australia - Melissa Caddick Missing After Australian SIC Raid - Sydney (NSW) - Nov 2020 #9

[JBowie]

There were dramatic scenes outside the NSW Coroner’s Court on Thursday morning as Mr Koletti, Ms Grimley and Ms Caddick’s father exited the court.

Mr Koletti was seen to push one television reporter while his brother in law Adam Grimley loudly honked his car horn before driving off.

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/dday-arrives-with-caddick-answers-to-be-revealed/news-story/563674331ea4029fbbc964b1eeff0990

 

[Estelle]

I'm still suspicious of Koletti.

 

[Martinie]

I'm still suspicious of Koletti.

He can't be as dumb as he is making himself out to be...

 

[Estelle]

He can't be as dumb as he is making out himself out to be...

IMO Koletti is a very cunning individual pretending to have low IQ so he is not made responsible for anything.

 

[drsleuth]

Has anyone been able to find the actual written findings?

 

[JBowie]

IMO Koletti is a very cunning individual pretending to have low IQ so he is not made responsible for anything.

It was put to him at the Inquest that he was bottom of the class at school, and I don't doubt that he was.

[Lachlan Gyles SC - representing the NSW Police Force] asked him: 'You're not very numerate, are you? You didn't win any academic prizes at school? You were at the bottom of your class, weren't you?'

My feeling is that he capitalizes on this 'dumbness' and uses it as an excuse for his actions when it suits him. Many of us probably know, or have known, similar people. I certainly have.

 

[Ooohm]

I'm still suspicious of Koletti.

ME TOO and doubly so after today’s findings.

 

[Via Marple]

It has been said that even experts cannot diagnose mental issues, without a meeting with the patient.

So whatever was said about MC's mental state is just an educated guess, and no more IMO.

 

[JBowie]

[Deputy state coroner Elizabeth] Ryan also noted counsel assisting’s closing submission that Koletti was a “most unimpressive and unreliable witness” whose lack of candour made it impossible to determine how his wife died.

Apart from giving the police inconsistent statements, the coroner said his evidence at the inquest was “riddled with similar inconsistencies and opacities”.

“Explanations which he offered for the many contradictions between and within his various accounts simply did not make sense,” Ryan said.

Koletti’s lawyer Judy Swan submitted that her client’s inconsistencies were due to his “limited intellectual capacity” and “negligible literary and numeracy prowess”.

However, the coroner contended Koletti’s discrepancies “are too numerous, and too persistent in nature, to be attributable to stress and a lack of intellectual sophistication”. [bbm]

Koletti ‘chose not to disclose’ details leading up to Caddick’s disappearance, coroner finds

A coronial inquest has found that while the conwoman is dead, her husband waiting 30 hours to report her missing suggested he withheld information about her disappearance.

www.smh.com.au

 

[SouthAussie]

Has anyone been able to find the actual written findings?

Haven't found the report. But this article has a pretty good snapshot of the findings.

Snapshot of Melissa Caddick inquest findings

WHAT TRIGGERED THE MELISSA CADDICK INQUEST * Ms Caddick, 49, disappeared in November 2020, days after her Sydney...

www.canberratimes.com.au

 

[SouthAussie]

[Deputy state coroner Elizabeth] Ryan also noted counsel assisting’s closing submission that Koletti was a “most unimpressive and unreliable witness” whose lack of candour made it impossible to determine how his wife died.

Apart from giving the police inconsistent statements, the coroner said his evidence at the inquest was “riddled with similar inconsistencies and opacities”.

“Explanations which he offered for the many contradictions between and within his various accounts simply did not make sense,” Ryan said.

Koletti’s lawyer Judy Swan submitted that her client’s inconsistencies were due to his “limited intellectual capacity” and “negligible literary and numeracy prowess”.

However, the coroner contended Koletti’s discrepancies “are too numerous, and too persistent in nature, to be attributable to stress and a lack of intellectual sophistication”. [bbm]

Koletti ‘chose not to disclose’ details leading up to Caddick’s disappearance, coroner finds

A coronial inquest has found that while the conwoman is dead, her husband waiting 30 hours to report her missing suggested he withheld information about her disappearance.

www.smh.com.au

Also ... "The coroner found Mr Koletti purposely withheld information relating to his wife's disappearance and could not be ruled out from being involved."

(From the snapshot I linked above.)

 

[JBowie]

One investor told the inquest: “I sold my business as I was under the impression my money was safe, and I retired in 2017 … To rub more salt in the wound she has also stolen my mother’s money, wife’s, mother-in-law, son, brother and sister … wiping out three generations of my family’s savings.”

Koletti ‘chose not to disclose’ details leading up to Caddick’s disappearance, coroner finds

A coronial inquest has found that while the conwoman is dead, her husband waiting 30 hours to report her missing suggested he withheld information about her disappearance.

www.smh.com.au

 

[JBowie]

As I've mentioned here before, AFAIK a person doesn't become a narcissistic sociopath over night. A little re-cap of her history:

Missing conwoman Melissa Caddick had a decades-long history of fraud and dishonesty, somehow evading consequences for her crimes every time.

From stolen cutlery to fake stories: Melissa Caddick's history of lies

From stealing cutlery to lies about payoffs and her ex-husband - who she stopped seeing their son - the always immaculate Melissa Caddick lived in a world of scams that led to her demise.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[JBowie]

[Koletti] was expected to be a "primary source" of information crucial in piecing together the events of November 12, 2020, Magistrate Ryan said.

Instead, she concluded, throughout the investigation Mr Koletti "has chosen at times to make statements that are simply untrue".

"Mr Koletti was ' … a most unimpressive and unreliable witness', whose lack of candour was one of the reasons why it was not possible to conclude how, when and where Ms Caddick had died," she said.

During several hours on the stand at the inquest, Mr Koletti repeatedly denied misleading the police or assisting his wife in disappearing.

Thursday's findings outlined what Magistrate Ryan called the inconsistent and "incomprehensible" evidence Mr Koletti has given since Ms Caddick was last seen alive.

There was a focus on the differing versions of events, as told by Mr Koletti, between the ASIC raid on November 11 and him making the missing person's report on November 13.

Initially, he told police, he and Ms Caddick went to bed around 9:30pm on November 11, 2020, and he last saw her about midnight.

Since then, he has claimed to have seen his wife sleeping at 4am the next morning and has given varying explanations about how that occurred.

He also told police she might have booked a room at a hotel in Bondi Junction, saying it was their "go to" retreat in Sydney.

The hotel later advised police it had no record of either Ms Caddick or Mr Koletti ever staying there.

When pressed at the inquest on why he offered this guidance, Mr Koletti replied he was "was trying to provide relevant information, no matter how stupid".

The court heard he also told authorities Ms Caddick left home to jog at 5:30am "which she does every day", but CCTV footage had not captured her doing so for a month before she vanished.

Magistrate Ryan said many of the reasons Mr Koletti provided at the inquest for the discrepancies "simply did not make sense".

"It is fair to say that when he was not creating further inconsistencies, he was attempting to account for them with opaque and at times unintelligible explanations," she said.

"Notably however, every police officer who had any significant interaction with Mr Koletti suspected that he had some knowledge of Ms Caddick's movements, but had chosen not to share it with them."

The last person to see Melissa Caddick alive was a 'significant burden' to police investigation, coroner finds

As a coroner found Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick is dead, she spoke about the "strong suspicion" of police that Anthony Koletti has withheld information from investigators.

www.abc.net.au

 

[JLZ]

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[imstilla.grandma]

In handing down her coronial findings on Thursday morning, Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan said Ms. Caddick was dead; however, it could not be determined how, when and where she died.

Ms. Caddick’s husband, Anthony Koletti, and son told the inquest they heard the front door of their Dover Heights mansion open and close around 5:30 a.m. on November 12, 2020.

Melissa Caddick was ruled to be dead by a coroner.

Missing fraudster Melissa Caddick determined dead after severed foot discovered: coroner

When a shoe with skeletal remains that were later DNA-matched to missing fraudster Melissa Caddick washed up on a remote beach after she vanished, some hypothesized she faked her own death.

nypost.com

 

[SouthAussie]

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Thanks, JLZ! You found the Coronial Findings.

Essentially, the official outcome (pg 53) ....
Melissa is dead, but the Coroner cannot determine the when, where or how of it.

 

[JLZ]

Thanks, JLZ! You found the Coronial Findings.

Essentially, the official outcome (pg 53) ....
Melissa is dead, but the Coroner cannot determine the when, where or how of it.

I think they've only just gone up. I couldn't find them either when I searched in the last day or two.

 

[61Montcalm]

Drama je krenula kada su pronašli njezino stopalo: prevarantica je ukrala milijune, a onda joj se izgubio svaki trag

Kad je u studenom 2020. imućna prevarantica Melissa Caddick nestala bez traga, Australija je naćulila uši. Kada je more na jednu tamošnju plažu nakon nekoliko mjeseci izbacilo njezinu djelomič...

slobodnadalmacija.hr

She’s even made the news over here in Croatia, with this headline reading “The drama began when they found her foot. The fraudster stole millions and afterwards all trace of her was lost.”

 

[Trooper]

Basically, it's down to, 'did she fall or was she pushed' off the cliff. Only the sharks know, really. And only if they were looking up instead of down. There is no doubt in my mind that Melissa made some first class -high octane -force 10 enemies, out of ordinary people who were betrayed and robbed with malicious intent, no other way of putting it.. It was malicious , Melissa's way of doing 'business'. Awful things happen to people who are treated like this, and it is on the record that quite a few of them knew they had been dudded, over many years , by Melissa. So motive is not hard to find, really. Motivation is another thing, opportunity a whole other thing, and method, yet another factor.

Lots of similar criminals strut round Sydney, free as birds , owing multiple millions to poor pensioners and widows, with nary a frown on their botoxed foreheads, very few take the off the cliff option. Rene Rivkin comes to mind, among the very very few who did. Although, he did it in the comfort of his mother's Milson's Point apartment. ...Not hurling from a height into unknown cold waters, hoping to miss the rocks, and other things underwater..

So it does happen, and maybe Melissa did have a Damascus Road experience that morning. To paraphrase Colonel Nichols in closing moment of the film, The Bridge on the River Kwai... ' what have I done? '...... Perhaps. Improbable, but not impossible.