No arrests have been made in the murder of the wife of a former Bermuda prosecutor, a month after her killing.

Coryn Rayney, wife of Lloyd Rayney, was killed and her body found buried in a makeshift grave in a park in Perth, Australia on August 16.

She had been missing since August 7, when she failed to return home to her ten and 12-year-old daughters after a line dancing class. Mr. Rayney was babysitting the children at the time of his wife's disappearance.

Snr-Sgt Jack Lee from the Major Crime Squad told the Perth Sunday Times: "The Major Crime Squad is set up for protracted investigations. This investigation was never going to be easy.

"It is a difficult investigation and it will take some time, but we have come a long way from where we were one month ago."

Snr-Sgt Lee said that a number of people of interest had been eliminated from police investigations.

They have already forensically examined 19 separate sites in the search for her killer.

Some media reports in Australia have focused on the fact that the couple were estranged at the time of Mrs. Rayney's death but Police say her husband is a person of interest, but not a suspect at this stage of the investigation.

Mrs. Rayney, 44, came to Bermuda in Bermuda in May 2003 with her husband who worked in the Department of Public Prosecutions. They left the following June.

While here, Mr. Rayney successfully prosecuted Justis Smith — the man accused but never convicted of murdering Canadian teenager Rebecca Middleton in 1996 — for stabbing a girl at Dockyard.

Mrs. Rayney worked as a West Australian Supreme Court registrar and her husband was described by the newspaper as a prominent Perth lawyer.

The Perth Sunday Times said she was born in Uganda, but moved to Perth with her family when she was ten to escape General Idi Amin's regime.

More than 800 people attended her funeral on September 1.