Melissa Caddick was a woman who had it all – a luxurious penthouse in one of the wealthiest parts of Sydney, Australia, a successful business, a loving family, loyal friends and a handsome younger husband. And as if that wasn’t enough, she also had a designer walk-in wardrobe bursting at the seams with haute couture dresses, Christian Dior shoes and Gucci handbags. She went on luxury holidays, wore expensive jewellery and drove luxury cars.
Only, one morning in November 2020, the fitness fanatic, 49, went out for a run and never came back. Where was she? Did she have something to run from? The world was gripped by the mystery of her disappearance and now a new ITVX documentary, The Real Vanishing Act:, attempts to answer some of those questions.