Melissa Caddick: Police appeal for dashcam vision in search for Sydney millionaire

A desperate police search for a Sydney businesswoman who vanished from her cliffside home last month has intensified, with investigators launching a renewed push for dashcam footage.

The street where Melissa Caddick was last seen at Dover Heights in Sydney. on November 12. Picture: Joel Carrett/NCA NewsWire

Police are stepping up their search to find a millionare businesswoman who vanished from her home almost three weeks ago, by re-appealing for dashcam footage and public assistance.

Melissa Caddick, 49, was last seen at her $7 million cliffside home on Wallangra Road in Dover Heights just after midnight on Thursday, November 12.

After weeks of searching, the case continues to leave detectives baffled, prompting police to re-appeal to motorists who may have dashcam vision from the area in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, between 6.30pm on Wednesday, November 11 and 8am on Thursday, November 12.

Officers are particularly interested in the areas around Wallangra Road, Dover Road, Military Road, Rodney Street, Lyons Street, Hardy Street, Napier Street and Portland Street.

Speaking to the media on Tuesday, NSW Police Detective Inspector Gretchen Atkins said there’s still no trace of Ms Caddick.

“At this point in time we don’t have Melissa on the footage (that has so far been reviewed) but we still have hundreds of hours of footage to go through,” she said.

Melissa Caddick vanished almost three weeks ago. Picture: Facebook.

Just two days before she went missing, Australian Federal Police and ASIC raided Ms Caddick’s cliffside mansion, slapping her with a court order before freezing all her assets and confiscating her passport.

Ms Caddick was being investigated by the corporate watchdog over how her company handled its funds, with the mother-of-one expressing her concerns about the investigation to her husband the night of November 11.

Police were told she left the home about 5.30am on November 12 to go on her usual morning run, but failed to take her phone, and hasn’t been heard from since.

In a public appeal almost two weeks ago, Ms Caddick’s husband Anthony Koletti begged for his wife to come home and said it was odd she hadn’t taken her phone with her.

“She always took her phone,” Mr Koletti said.

“In this case, this is the only time since I have known her that she didn't.”

Officers from the Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command launched an investigation on Friday, November 13 - the same day Ms Caddick was due to appear in the Federal Court.

The family home where Melissa Caddick was last seen at Dover Heights in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Picture: Joel Carrett/NCA NewsWire

The renewed push also comes after her lawyer made a sensational claim in court that the case was now being treated as a murder investigation, though police have since denied those claims.

Speaking during last Friday’s case management hearing in the Federal Court, barrister Jane Muir said Ms Caddick’s brother, Adam Grimley, had been busy assisting police with a murder investigation.

“It’s very difficult for them to provide us with timely instructions given the other claims on their time that are referable to the first defendant being missing,” she told the court.

“Family matters and, in Mr Grimley’s case, I understand he is also spending time assisting the police with what is now a murder investigation.”

On the day, police told NCA NewsWire there had been no changes to its investigation, with officers still treating Ms Caddick’s disappearance as a missing persons case.

Detective Inspector Atkins reiterated that stance on Tuesday.

“At this point we can’t definitively say where Melissa is but we are treating it as a missing persons case,” she said.

Anthony Koletti desperately wants his wife home. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Earlier officers also suggested they were not ruling out whether Ms Caddick staged her disappearance.

“We are not ruling anything out at this stage and are working on several theories,” Bondi Police acting crime manager Stuart Thomas said last week.

Mr Koletti has already been quizzed by police, and there’s no suggestion he had any involvement in his wife’s disappearance.

Ms Caddick was known to frequent the Bondi, Dover Heights and Rose Bay areas and also spent a lot of time in the city and would often take walks at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Mr Koletti said.

She is described as being of caucasian appearance, about 165cm tall, of slim build, with long brown hair.

At the time she disappeared she was wearing a black singlet top and leggings, and silver Nike sneakers.

She did not take her phone, any money or personal possessions with her.

Ms Caddick has been managing director of several companies, including Cadley Consulting Group.

Anyone with information is urged to contact police on [phone], or Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.

Originally published as Melissa Caddick: Police appeal for dashcam vision in search for Sydney millionaire