Borce Ristevski was carrying a secret as friends, family members and mourners gathered around him at the funeral for his wife Karen.
What they didn't know at the time was that the Melbourne man had killed his long-term partner and the mother of his only daughter, Sarah, at their Avondale Heights home earlier in 2016.
Borce would admit to killing his wife months later in court but there remains one secret he will not reveal - how and why he did it.
Next month marks five years since Karen was killed at the hands of her husband, bundled into the boot of his car and driven to dense bushland where her body was dumped and left to decompose to such a state that the cause of death was unable to be ascertained.