UPDATE:
Police have identified the body found at Mount Macedon on Monday as that of missing Avondale Heights, woman Karen Ristevski.
Mrs Ristevski, 47, was last seen at her home address on Oakley Drive in Avondale Heights at about 10am on June 29.
The breakthrough in the case came on Monday at 12.30pm when a bushwalker stumbled upon her body between two logs, not far from a dirt track off Loch Road in Mount Macedon Regional Park.
Mrs Ristevski’s devastated aunt Patricia Gray described her as “so full of love”.
“Happy we found her. Devastated that’s how she was discarded,” Ms Gray said.
Ms Gray had made the family’s final public appeal for information last year.
“How a person such as Karen, so full of love, life and laughter, could be left, abandoned, discarded with no thought or emotion shown is unforgivable.”
Mrs Ristevski’s cousin Lisa Gray said the family would do everything possible to help bring the person responsible to justice.
Missing Persons Squad detectives are appealing for anyone that may have been walking along the dirt track off Loch Road or anyone that may have seen any vehicles to contact them.
Investigators are appealing for information from anyone that may have been at Mount Macedon any time from June last year and took photos or any video footage in the area.
In December, police were looking for Mrs Ristevski in an area of Toolern Vale, about 25 kilometres from where the body was found.
There have been reports Mrs Ristevski’s phone pinged on towers on the Calder Highway and at Gisborne on the day she went missing.
Police and SES volunteers searched an area spanning from Blackhill Road to Gisborne Road, looking in grassland, waterways, creeks and farms on December 19 and 20.
Mount Macedon is a 23-minute drive from Toolern Vale.
Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
