Karen’s luxury Mercedes seen in murder victim’s Avondale Heights street

KAREN Ristevski’s husband has emerged from his Avondale Heights home this morning, after the sight of her black Mercedes on a tow truck set tongues wagging.

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KAREN Ristevski’s husband has emerged from his Avondale Heights home, after the sight of her black Mercedes on a tow truck set tongues wagging yesterday.

Borce Ristevski refused to speak to reporters as he left the Oakley Dve home at 6.20am this morning.

Ms Ristevski’s luxury Mercedes continues to be the vital clue that could eventually see charges laid against her killer.

Neighbours on Monday reported seeing the car back in the Avondale Heights street she disappeared from over a year ago.

It was later loaded onto a tow truck.

A black Mercedes has been photographed on a tow truck in the street of murdered woman Karen Ristevski. Picture: Channel 7

But the Herald Sun has been told the towing away of the Mercedes from the home of murder suspect Borce Ristevski is not a significant development in the ongoing probe into the death of his wife Karen.

Police have not recently seized the Ristevski’s Mercedes, although it has in the past been painstakingly forensically tested for clues.

The Herald Sun has been told there are no new developments in the case and an arrest isn’t imminent.

A black Mercedes Benz coupe, similar to that owned by Karen Ristevski. Source: Victoria Police

Borce Ristevski, 53, remains a key suspect in the murder of his wife Karen, 47.

It is now more than a year since he claimed his wife walked out of their home to “clear her head” after they argued about money.

Ms Ristevski’s Mercedes is a crucial piece of evidence as a similar vehicle — and possibly the actual Ristevski car — was seen at Diggers Rest and Mt Macedon on the day she disappeared.

Her decomposed body was found wedged between two logs off a dirt track in the Macedon Regional Park on February 20.

Karen Ristevski with her husband Borce Ristevski and daughter Sarah. Supplied.

The Herald Sun understands that one theory police are working on is that Ms Ristevski’s black Mercedes-Benz SLK coupe was being driven by her husband Borce, and that her body was in the vehicle, when CCTV recorded it going over the Diggers Rest railway crossing on June 29 last year — the day she went missing.

Missing Persons Squad detectives have spent months tracking down the owners of just about every similar car in Victoria and have eliminated all of them as being the driver of the car in the CCTV footage.

They haven’t been able to eliminate Borce Ristevski as the driver they are looking for.

Mr Ristevski continues to deny he had anything to do with his wife’s death.