Police perform tests on Karen Ristevski’s Mercedes
POLICE have been seen performing tests on the black Mercedes which belonged to murdered woman Karen Ristevski around Melbourne for the second time this week.
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POLICE have been seen performing tests on the black Mercedes which belonged to murdered woman Karen Ristevski around Melbourne for the second time this week.
Investigators were on Thursday spotted driving the luxury car from the Ristevski Avondale Heights home towards the Calder Freeway.
The car was then seen moving onto the Melton Highway.
Ms Ristevski’s Mercedes is a crucial piece of evidence as a similar vehicle — and possibly the Ristevski car — was seen at Diggers Rest and Mt Macedon on the day she disappeared.
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Her decomposed body was found wedged between two logs off a dirt track in the Macedon Regional Park on February 20.
Victoria Police spokeswoman Hannah Rowlands said: “Missing Persons Squad detectives continue to investigate the death of Avondale Heights woman Karen Ristevski.
“As part of their investigation, detectives were out (on Thursday) in the Avondale Heights and Watergardens areas where testing of a vehicle was conducted.”
Neighbours on Monday reported seeing the car back in the Avondale Heights street she disappeared from on June 29 last year. It was later loaded onto a tow truck.
The car has already been painstakingly forensically tested for clues.
Borce Ristevski, 53, remains a key suspect in the murder of his 47-year-old wife.
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.
The Herald Sun understands one theory police are working on is Ms Ristevski’s black Mercedes-Benz SLK coupe was being driven by her husband Borce, and her body was in the vehicle when CCTV recorded it going over the Diggers Rest railway crossing on the day she disappeared.
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 vehicle in the CCTV footage.
They haven’t been able to eliminate Mr Ristevski as the driver they are looking for.
He denies he had anything to do with his wife’s death.
Last week the Herald Sun revealed Mr Ristevski cannot explain to police what he was doing for almost 100 minutes on the day she vanished.
Detectives have been trying to pin down Mr Ristevski’s movements on the day he said his wife went missing.
He told police he took his wife’s car for a drive on the Calder Freeway that day.
But when pressed by detectives, Mr Ristevski could not account for his actions for a period of just under an hour and 40 minutes.