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Man charged with murder of Melbourne woman Karen Ristevski Karen Ristevski: husband charged with murder of Melbourne woman
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A 53-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of Melbourne woman Karen Ristevski, whose body was found in bushland in February eight months after she disappeared from her Avondale Heights home. Borce Ristevski has been charged with murdering his wife Karen, whose body was found in Victorian bushland after she went missing in 2016.
Victoria Police said detectives from the missing persons squad arrested an Avondale Heights man early on Wednesday morning and he would appear before the Melbourne magistrates court that day. Detectives from the Missing Persons Squad arrested the 53-year-old at 7.20am on Wednesday.
Ristevski was last seen alive at her home in Oakley Drive on the morning of 29 June, 2016. Ristevski has been charged with one count of murder and will appear in the Melbourne magistrates court on Wednesday morning.
Her body was found by a bushwalker near a dirt road in the Mount Macedon regional park, about 60km north of Melbourne, on 20 Feburary, 2017. Ristevski went missing from her Oakley Drive, Avondale Heights home on the morning of 29 June in 2016.
A funeral was held for the 47-year-old in March. Her remains were discovered in bushland in the Mount Macedon regional park eight months later, on 20 February.
More to come. In March, hundreds of mourners dressed in black filled St John’s Uniting church in Essendon for a private funeral service before Karen Ristevski’s body was taken to her final resting place.
Borce Ristevski was one of the pallbearers carrying her coffin, while their daughter Sarah carried a framed photo of her mother to lead the procession.