Forensic testing to see if human remains found on Mollymook Beach match Melissa Caddick

A second crime scene was set up after human flesh washed up on Mollymook Beach. The grisly find comes six days after the decaying foot of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick was found at nearby Bermagui.

Forensic police were called to Mollymook Beach on Friday night after human remains washed ashore.

Police sources say walkers found what appeared to be a large chunk of stomach flesh, including a belly button.

The ASIC raid on Melissa Caddick business. Picture: NSW Police

Officers rushed to the scene around 9.30pm and called in detectives and crime scene officers. DNA testing will be carried out to determine whether the remains belong to missing mother and fraudster Melissa Caddick.

The remains were found just over 150km north of Bermagui, where the Sydney businesswoman’s decomposing foot and shoe were found on Sunday.

Yesterday police still favoured the theory that Ms Caddick had committed suicide, but confirmed it was impossible to rule out foul play without further investigation and an inquest.

Police still suspect Ms Caddick suicided because the 300m route from her home at Dover Heights to the eastern suburbs clifftops are not covered by CCTV cameras.

Police set up a crime scene on Mollymook Beach after flesh washed up on the shore.

While this week’s discovery of Ms Caddick’s decomposed foot has solved one part of the baffling mystery, the nightmare facing her fleeced investors is far from over.

Late on Thursday, NSW Police confirmed the human foot found inside a running shoe washed up on a far south coast beach belonged to the missing 49-year-old.

The Saturday Telegraph broke the news of the discovery on its website on Friday morning, half an hour before a police press conference.

It was a bombshell breakthrough in the search for Ms Caddick, who was last seen 14 weeks earlier and 438km away at her Dover Heights mansion in Sydney’s east.

Ever since she vanished in the face of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation, speculation has been rife that she had bunkered down somewhere and was waiting out the storm.

Former friends and investors did not believe the meticulous and organised mother was capable of taking her own life and suggested she had likely enacted a plan B. Some senior police were also leaning towards the runaway theory in the absence of evidence suggesting otherwise.

But in the background, there was always the possibility Ms Caddick had committed suicide.

The Saturday Telegraph understands the route from Ms Caddick’s Wallangra Rd home to the clifftops between Dover Heights and Watsons Bay did not have CCTV cameras either facing the street or operating. In other words, she could have had a clear run.

Ms Caddick’s shoe, which held the decomposing remains of a foot. Picture: 7NEWS

Days after she disappeared, the Marine Area Command used offshore drift modelling software that estimated which direction an object — based on weight, weather patterns and ocean conditions — could drift.

Investigators were advised a body that entered the water around Dover Heights could have drifted as far as Bermagui on the south coast.

In the absence of any remains washing up on the beach, Eastern Suburbs Police focused on interviewing family and friends, reviewing hours of CCTV from around Dover Heights and at airports and marinas for any sign of Ms Caddick.

Then on Sunday, a man walking along Bournda beach, 25km southeast of Bega, found an Asics Gel Nimbus 22 dark grey running shoe on the shoreline. Inside were the remains of a human foot, mainly bones and a small amount of tissue.

The man, who was camping nearby, called police and about 1pm, officers collected the shoe.

By Tuesday, detectives had reviewed footage of ASIC and the Australian Federal Police raiding Ms Caddick’s home on November 11. In the footage Ms Caddick was seen wearing the same distinctive shoes, that can only be purchased in Israel, as the one found on the beach. The following day, the human foot and the shoe were sent to the Forensic and Analytical Science Service for a DNA comparison.

Familial DNA samples previously collected from Ms Caddick’s parents and her toothbrush were compared against the bones. All comparisons pointed to the human foot belonging to Ms Caddick.

“Clearly the circumstances of Melissa Caddick’s disappearance have been distressing for many people, including her alleged victims and of course her family and friends,” Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing said.

“Exactly how Melissa came to enter the water is still a mystery. Police have always kept an open mind in relation to what the circumstances were for her disappearance including the fact Melissa may have taken her own life.”

By Thursday night, senior police were briefed on the breakthrough and Ms Caddick’s family, including her husband, Anthony Koletti and 15-year-old son, were informed.

Now the police case has shifted to compiling a coroner’s brief.