Serious charges leveled against a Riverina woman shot dead three years ago were withdrawn in Albury Local Court on Tuesday.
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Magistrate Miranda Moody struck out the charges against Allecha Suzette Boyd after a brief mention of the matter.
"This is the girl suspected of being dead?" Ms Moody asked.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Andrew Pike said that was so, and that all four charges were being withdrawn.
The most serious was a strictly indictable charge of being an accessory after the fact to the offence of robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon.
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The dropping of the charges comes just days after police conducted yet another search of the Lester State Forest for the remains of the Wagga woman, over whose death three people have been sent to jail.
Samuel John Shephard is serving the longest term, having been given 27 years in February on pleading guilty four months earlier to murder and supplying a large commercial quantity of methamphetamine.
Ms Boyd, 27, was on the way to Shephard's home at Coolamon, as a passenger in car that left Wagga on August 10, 2017, when she disappeared.
She had been taken to the outskirts of the town, where a court previously heard she was confronted by a woman over an alleged break-in at her home.
Shephard used a pistol to shoot her several times.
He and Anthony Shane Hagan - who received a three-year minimum term for being an accessory after the fact - then buried her in the forest.
His partner, Tracy Lee King, was also jailed after she too pleaded guilty to a charge of being an accessory after the fact.
The other charges withdrawn and dismissed against Ms Boyd were of concealing a serious indictable offence of another person, dealing with the proceeds of crime and failing to appeal on bail.
All allegations stem from the same year in which she died.
This past week's search for her remains was the eleventh in the forest.
