Melissa Caddick: More bones tested after new beach discovery
Police are awaiting DNA results of bones found washed up on a south coast beach days after fraudster Melissa Caddick’s remains were discovered.
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Police were last night investigating more remains — including bones — which were found on separate NSW south coast beaches.
A pair of bones were undergoing testing yesterday after they were found at Tura Beach, Merimbula on Saturday — just 4km from where the shoe of Melissa Caddick was located.
In a separate find about 200km north at Cunjurong Point, remains resembling human intestines were also located.
Police said at this stage there is nothing to link it to Caddick but are now awaiting the results of expert analysis.
Meanwhile, DNA testing will be carried out in the next few days on human flesh found on a south coast beach on Friday, to determine if they belong to Caddick or someone else.
The remains, which appear to be part of a torso, were discovered washed up on Mollymook Beach and have been transported to Sydney for forensic analysis.
While the remains were found soon after the discovery of Caddick’s foot inside her shoe, the likelihood appears the remains are not hers, but those of a 39-year-old man who disappeared while swimming at Batemans Bay.
“On January 25th we had reports of a Canberra man swimming just north of Batemans Bay with some of his family,” Assistant Commissioner Michael Willing said.
The man entered the water with goggles, snorkel and flippers at Richmond Beach about 3pm but was not seen again.
“We don’t want to speculate until we the DNA results until probably later this week when we will hope to have an answer,’’ he said.
Besides being compared to the DNA of Melissa Caddick and the missing swimmer, the DNA will be put through a date base of DNA of missing persons.
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