It was a week that saw major breakthroughs in the mysterious disappearance of Avondale Heights woman Karen Ristevski.
But while her body has been found and her husband Borce named as a key suspect, more questions have been raised than answered in the baffling case.
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Karen Ristevski case: where to now?
The Age's crime writer John Silvester talks about the fate of Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski, who disappeared seven months ago.
It began on Monday when a bushwalker stumbled between two logs and made the grisly discovery of a woman's badly decomposed body in scrub at the base of Mount Macedon.
Melbourne was left on tenterhooks as the remains were taken away for forensic testing.
Detectives then visited the Ristevski's Oakleigh Drive home on Tuesday evening to break the news to Mr Ristevski and their 21-year-old daughter Sarah that the body was Karen's.
The focus turned to charging her killer.
An unexpected twist came on Wednesday when Mr Ristevski's lawyer Rob Stary revealed his client was the "number one suspect" for his wife's murder.
The leading criminal lawyer said Mr Ristevski visited his office on Wednesday morning seeking guidance.
Also on Wednesday, members of the Ristevski family spoke out, including Karen's stepson Anthony Rickard who urged her killer to "man up", come forward and "confess" to the crime.
"It's only a matter of time before you are spending a long time behind bars," Anthony Rickard wrote on Facebook.
He also made strange comments alluding to an affair between him and his stepmother.
"The only person who showed me true love and will always have a place for u in my heart u were my one true soulmate," he wrote.
On Thursday came the creepy story of a man emerging from bushland on the outskirts of Mount Macedon carrying a shovel.
"So where did you bury the body mate?" joked a man who saw him.
The man stared back with "expressionless" eyes and said nothing.
On Friday, sources familiar with the investigation told Fairfax Media a tracking device police had fitted to a vehicle used by Mr Ristevski either fell off or was removed.
Tracking devices are routinely fitted to suspects' vehicles when police suspect foul play, the sources said.
Police detectives also suspect Mr Ristevski had been advised against speaking on phones and provided with information about investigative techniques used by homicide detectives, it was reported.
Ms Ristevski had not been seen alive since June 29, 2016.
Her disappearance and search for her body has held Victorians' attention for almost eight months.
Mr Ristevski was questioned by homicide detectives on July 8 and denied any involvement in his wife's disappearance. He was released without charge.
He is believed to have told police she left their Oakley Drive home in Avondale Heighs about 10am to "clear her head" after they argued over a "sum of hundreds of dollars".
Data from Ms Ristevski's mobile phone was traced to a tower on the Calder Highway near Gisborne, not far from Mount Macedon and 40 kilometres north-west of her family home, just hours after she vanished.
On the same night, Mr Ristevski's phone was detected by another tower on Calder Highway near Diggers Rest.
He reportedly told police he'd taken his wife's 2004 Mercedes-Benz coupe for a drive on the day she disappeared to test a faulty fuel gauge.
He said the fault rectified itself after he drove the car over a bump in the road near Calder Park Raceway so he returned home, according to reports.
However, Mercedes mechanics have told The Age a faulty gauge in the luxury vehicle would not be fixed by a jolt.
With Cameron Houston, Tammy Mills, Nino Bucci, Darren Grey, Aisha Dow, John Silvester, Chris Vedelago and Chloe Booker