Melissa Caddick disappearance: Inside the Dover Heights treasure trove of missing Sydney conwoman

Never-before-seen photos have unveiled the treasure trove of luxury items Melissa Caddick kept at her Sydney mansion – and her telling text messages – before she mysteriously vanished. 

A huge haul of flashy possessions once belonging to the fraudster will go under the hammer after a court ordered ‘uncontested’ assets were to be sold to pay back investors – including friends and family members – who were fleeced by her Ponzi scheme.

Hundreds of photos have been released showing what was stashed inside Caddick’s closets and drawers when Australian Federal Police and ASIC investigators raided her Dover Heights mansion in Sydney‘s east in November, 2020.

The fraudster mysteriously vanished hours after the day-long raid.

 This weeks marks two years since the mysterious disappearance of Sydney conwoman Melissa Caddick (pictured with husband Anthony Koletti)

Photos have emerged of Melissa Caddick’s treasure trove of luxury possessions found by investigators during their raid. Pictured is a Chanel jacket

A collection of Caddick’s possessions will be up for auction in the coming weeks, ranging from designer label clothing, shoes, handbags and watches to scarves and jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

Previously unseen photos taken by investigators during the raid have emerged of lavish possessions belonging to Caddick and her husband Anthony Koletti. 

They include Chanel cardigans and ballgowns, a Christian Dior bomber jacket, a green fur coat, boxes of Louboutin shoes, drawers of Hermes and Louis Vuitton and scarves and designer perfume bottles.

Caddick’s expensive taste extended to accessories including Longines, Louis Vuitton, Tag Heuer, Gucci, Christian Dior watches and several designer handbags and wallets.

Investigators found an astonishing collection of diamond and sapphire rings (above) at her home

Photos also emerged of Caddick’s tax files, a drawer of ‘Things to do’ for Maliver Pty Ltd containing paperwork, while a drawer labelled ‘Melissa Caddick things to do’ was empty.

There were even photos of copies of a financial magazine starring Caddick on the front cover and screenshots of text messages from her phone.

Caddick purported to be investing her victims’ wealth but instead set up fake CommSec trading accounts and forged documents to claim she was generating profits through capital growth and shares. 

‘[We] will take all necessary measures to provide you updates. It would not be appropriate for us to call CommSec together,’ Caddick texted one of her contacts.

Screenshots of text messages found on Caddick’s phone

Caddick’s expensive taste extended to accessories including Longines, Louis Vuitton, Tag Heuer, Gucci, Christian Dior watches and several designer handbags and wallets. Pictured, a Dior handbag

The contact responded: ‘OK thanks. I will call and see if they [can] provide me with any information and if they do, I will let you know.’  

A separate message read: ‘Check out this 2016 Audi R8 Auto Quattro MY17.’ 

Among the first items to be sold will be Caddick’s art collection, including Archibald Prize winner John Olsen’s ‘Giraffes & Wet Season’ painting, which is estimated to sell for anywhere from $25,000 up to $35,000, according to Shapiro Auction website. 

Shapiro will then sell-off Caddick’s designer wardrobe including dozens of handbags, frocks, coats and ballgowns on December 5-6.

Melissa Caddick also had a collection of designer watches from Longines, Louis Vuitton, Tag Heuer and Christian Dior (pictured)

This painting from Melissa Caddick’s art collection from Archibald Prize winner John Olsen could fetch up to $35,000 later in November

Another auction house Smith & Singer will also sell off some of Caddick’s jewellery next month, including custom-made diamond, sapphire and emerald necklaces worth up to $500,000. 

‘I just hope they get as much money for her victims as they can,’ a former associate told Sydney Morning Herald.

This Saturday marks two years since Caddick, 49, vanished without a trace on November 12, 2020 after she fleeced $30million from investors.

Her severed foot inside an ASICS sneaker washed up on Bournda Beach 500km south of Sydney three months later.  

Caddick’s five-bedroom mansion worth an estimated $15million recently sold for an undisclosed sum after expressions of interest into the property closed several days early. 

Receivers won’t disclose the price until after the property has settled.

The jaw-dropping necklace worth $250k that Melissa Caddick had custom-made, with an 83-carat black sapphire as its centrepiece

Many of Caddick’s belongings photographed during the raid will go under the hammer to pay back investors. Pictured is a small collection of her jewellery and designer handbags

Astonishing footage emerges of a dazed Melissa Caddick showing off wads of cash, $100,000 necklaces and priceless diamonds… the last time Australia’s most notorious fraudster would ever see them

Astonishing footage has emerged of a dazed Melissa Caddick being questioned over $2million worth of jewellery during a raid on her house just prior to her disappearance.

The video, shown at the inquest into her disappearance, shows the notorious fraudster Caddick under intense pressure as investigators hone in on her designer jewellery collection on November 11, 2020.

Caddick, now Australia’s most notorious fraudster, vanished the next day.

The video was released as part of the ongoing inquest and comes as court-appointed receivers attempt to claw back more than $23 million owed to her former clients.

Astonishing footage has emerged of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick being questioned by investigators over her $2million worth of jewellery during the police raid hours before she went missing

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The video, filmed by the Australian Federal Police, shows Caddick under intense pressure as investigators focus on her designer jewellery collection before they seized her valuables (Pictured, one of Caddick’s necklaces, worth up to $100,000)

The video was released as part of the ongoing court case in which court-appointed receivers attempt to claw back more than $23 million owed to her former clients (Pictured, one of Caddick’s Centauri necklaces, worth up to $100,000)

Caddick lived a luxury lifestyle before her world came crashing down with the raid by the AFP and ASIC at her Dover Heights home.

She wore designer clothes and ultra expensive bling, collected fine art and took lavish overseas skiing holidays with husband Anthony Koletti.

The AFP video shows the tense atmosphere inside the eastern suburbs during the life-changing raid, which began with a 6.30am door knock.

‘Ms Caddick are there any particularly high value items – just in terms of our safe storage?’ an investigator asks her.

‘We intend to seize the majority of what you’ve just been taken through.’

ASIC and AFP officers show off Caddick’s extraordinary jewellery collection in the video which included many designer labels

Caddick’s husband Anthony Koletti estimated the jewellery alone was worth over $2million

‘I’d say they’re all high value,’ she eventually responds.

‘What would you consider high value?’ he asks.

‘Well the necklaces are $80,000 to $100,000.’

She was believed to be referring to two oversized Stefano Canturi necklaces that she kept locked in a safe.

‘Is there anything more expensive than those?’ he asks.

She quickly checks over the jewellery laid out before replying ‘no’. 

Investigators are seen flicking through wads of foreign cash in Caddick’s house 

Over a 14 hour period a large team of investigators wearing protective gloves questioned Caddick as they meticulously catalogued, bagged, labelled and removed all items of value from the home

AFP and ASIC investigators opened her two household safes, both containing expensive jewellery 

Over a 14 hour period a large team of investigators wearing protective gloves questioned Caddick as they meticulously catalogued, bagged, labelled and removed all items of value from the home.

They seized her jewellery and fine art collection, designer clothing and other possessions, filling dozens of boxes and wrapping many items in plastic for removal.

They also found thousands of dollars in foreign currency, which shown being counted in the clip. 

Koletti claimed in a 7News Spotlight interview that Caddick was ‘surrounded and trapped’ in her office by ASIC and AFP investigators who wouldn’t allow him inside.

The jewellery alone is worth more than $2million, according to Mr Koletti.

Mr Koletti said everything the investigators took was ‘all sentimental and all high value’. 

He said she loved her jewellery but claimed ‘she loved people more’.

Caddick is believed to have defrauded 72 clients, many of them family members and close friends, out of at least $23million in a long-running and carefully hidden Ponzi scheme. 

Receivers plan to auction before Christmas as they try to recoup millions for the out-of-pocket investors.

The clip shows several ASIC and AFP staff carrying them down the stairs and out of the house after dark to complete Caddick’s humiliation. 

Koletti claimed he didn’t ask her any questions after the investigators left and she went straight to sleep. 

Caddick’s home, which she bought for $6.2million and is now believed to be worth up to $15million, is expected to be sold to help repay defrauded investors

She vanished the next morning, with Koletti later telling authorties he believed she had gone out for her regular run. 

She has never been seen since. 

Incredibly her severed foot was found washed up in an Asics running show three months later on a New South Wales beach, 400km south of her eastern suburbs Sydney home.

Caddick’s home, which she bought for $6.2million and is now believed to be worth up to $15million, is expected to be sold to help repay defrauded investors.