Ep. - 1484 - MISSING MILLIONAIRES: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MELISSA CADDICK
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Kate breaks down the shocking true story behind Hulu’s Missing Millionaires and the disappearance of Australian financial fraudster Melissa Caddick.
Melissa Caddick appeared to be a successful Sydney-based financial advisor living an enviable life in one of the city’s wealthiest coastal neighborhoods. But in November 2020, as federal police raided her home for operating a massive Ponzi scheme, Melissa walked out for a morning run and never returned.
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| 0:47.0 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. |
| 0:50.8 | I hope that you're having a great week and I've got a great episode for you today. |
| 0:56.2 | It's a true crime doc series on Hulu, and it's got a murder twist to it, |
| 1:03.8 | but also a financial twist. And it reminded me a lot of the Bernie Madoff story. Now, if you go back into the reality life with KKC archives, I recommend episode 585 because I discussed the Bernie Madoff scheme. |
| 1:13.1 | Now, my guest in that episode was Diana Henrique, award-winning financial journalist and New York Times best-selling author. |
| 1:20.7 | She wrote a book called The Wizard of Lies, Bernie Madoff, and the Death of Trust. |
| 1:25.1 | And Netflix later made a series based on that book, |
| 1:28.3 | and it revealed the truth behind Bernie Madoff's infamous $64 billion global Ponzi scheme, |
| 1:34.8 | the largest in history that shattered the lives of countless individual investors |
| 1:39.5 | who had placed their trust in the Wall Street statesman. |
| 1:43.8 | This story I'm about to tell you about |
| 1:45.7 | takes place in Australia, and it's about a woman, |
| 1:49.7 | a woman named Melissa Caddick. |
| 1:52.0 | It was the kind of Sydney morning that feels deceptively calm, |
| 1:56.5 | November 12th, 2020, late spring in Australia. |
| 2:00.6 | The air was mild, the sky clear, the ocean stretching |
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