She was wealthy, stylish, and living the dream life in Sydney, Australia, when Melissa Caddick vanished without a trace.

What followed would unravel one of the most bizarre and captivating financial scandals the country had ever seen.

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast.

A true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend, Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy. How are you?

I'm doing great. I'm not stressed out and doing my pre-travel, like, freak out. I'm not doing that.

I swear the thing, like, I will fight myself in those moments to be like, everyone just wants to have a good time. If you blow up now, everyone will remember this is the trip that mom blew up in. Yes. So then, like, but by the end, I'm like, and I didn't want to get mad, but you guys have pushed me to the limit. Why do you want, like, why do you only listen when I screwed? And that's what I always say. You're teaching me bad behavior. By teaching me, you will only listen. If I'm yelling, that's on you. Right. Like, I'm being conditioned to do this because this is what I have learned. It's how you parents. It's how I actually get a reaction and a response out of you. So yeah, who's, who's training who here?

Yeah. I'm sure there's not a, there's a lot of problems with our theory there. I'm sure. Yes. I'm sure it's not the correct one and not a parenting theory that anyone else should follow. But yeah, we were talking a little bit before we started recording about how I'm going on my trip. We're leaving a little bit later today. So we're recording in the morning this time. And I had set everybody in my house on task right before I started recording. I was like, all right, here's a list of everything I want done when I get out of my room. So do you know, yeah, goodbye, everyone. Belisa, are your bets on all these things will be done, or do you think I will be doing a lot of these things when I finish recording today?

Yeah, I can already hear the Benny Hill music playing in the background as you're like running around and saying bad words under your breath.

I mean, I hope for you, but I live in reality. And at my house, the reality would be somebody, especially my oldest, would say, oh, I thought you meant.

And it'd be like nothing I ever said.

And why would you ever think I would mean that?

Right.

Why would you think cleaning the kitchen means wiping off the counters and taking things off the oven?

Like, why would that be a thing that would be involved? So,

anyway, you know, godspeed to you because, you know, whatever you get, if everybody's alive and not fighting at the end, I think that's a win. That's all I care about, truly. And like you said, and that nobody has like a major blowup and ruins the weekend before we even get out of the door. And that that no one is you.

That's right.

Absolutely.

All right.

So we'll get into the story this week.

This one is you. That's right. Absolutely. All right. So we'll get into the story this week. This one is actually really fascinating and interesting. I always enjoy stories about financial crimes, mostly because it always makes me think that I'm way too stupid to ever figure out how to scam people like this. And every time we have a story like this where it's like some kind of a

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