Karen Ristevski's brother-in-law has been filmed walking in bushland at the Mount Macedon Regional Park where her body was found eight months after she disappeared.
In a new twist to the case, Vasko Ristevski was spotted in bushland about 60 kilometres from the Ristevski's family home in Avondale Heights while Channel Nine's A Current Affair team was filming a story this week ahead of the one-year anniversary of her disappearance on June 29.
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CCTV may hold clues to Karen Ristevski's death
Police have released vision of a black Mercedes coupe driving near Diggers Rest on the day the mother was said to have gone missing.
Footage shows Ms Ristevski's brother-in-law appear from a behind a tree as he walks through the bush and heads back towards his truck parked just metres away from the site where the 47-year-old mother's body was found on February 20, buried between two giant logs.
The TV news crew were with former homicide detective Charlie Bezzina when they saw Vasko Ristevski, the brother of Ms Ristevski's husband Borce.
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Mr Ristevski appears stunned when he sees the news crew but he ignores questions from Channel Nine journalist Martin King and quickly gets into his truck and closes the door.
Karen Ristevski’s brother-in-law has been spotted at the Mt Macedon Regional Park where her body was found. #9News https://t.co/JJtee8FDQF
— Nine News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) June 17, 2017
The news comes as police say they are closing in on Ms Ristevski's killer.
Nearly a year after Ms Ristevski went missing, police have released fresh CCTV footage of a black Mercedes-Benz SLK coupe travelling towards Mount Macedon, the area her body was found.
The footage, captured at about 11.12am on June 29 last year by cameras at the Diggers Rest railway station, also shows five other cars driving through a roundabout on the Old Calder Highway just before the black Mercedes.
While the registration of the Mercedes isn't clear in the vision, Missing Persons Squad detective inspector Tim Day said investigators were working under the hypothesis that it was Ms Ristevski's car.
However they could only be sure after they had tracked down all the owners of similar vehicles.
Detectives had already ruled out hundreds of other Mercedes in Victoria, he said, but still were yet to speak with "less than 20" people.
"We will get to them, I'm sure we will get to them. But it would certainly expedite things if they were to contact police," Inspector Day said.
Inspector Day said detectives had looked for other footage of the Mercedes heading towards Mount Macedon but would not say if they had found any.
Borce Ristevski remains a key person of interest in the case and police have not ruled him out as the driver of the vehicle.
His lawyer Rob Stary told The Age hours after Ms Ristevki's body was found that he was the "number one suspect" in the case.
Inspector Day said Mr Ristevski was still a key figure for police: "I'll take out the word prime and [say] yes, he is a suspect," he said.
Fairfax Media does not suggest Vasko Ristevski or Borce Ristevski have committed any crime.
- With Tom Cowie