Melissa Caddick: Death of Australian fraudster remains a mystery

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She stole up to $30m from more than 60 clients, including many of her family and friends, to fund a lavish lifestyle.

The case has inspired a podcast, a TV dramatisation, and countless outlandish theories.

A long-running inquest into the case heard of a flawed police investigation.

Police considered throwing pig carcasses with running shoes on their trotters into the sea to determine how shark behaviour or ocean currents could have played a role.

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