The coronial inquest examining the suspected murder of Ms Butterworth 46 years ago continued in Hobart, after a month-long break.

The Channel 6 typist and aspiring model was last seen at a Claremont bus stop on August 25, 1969.

Convicted murderer Geoffrey Charles Hunt is the main person of interest in the case.

Coroner Simon Cooper heard evidence on Wednesday from Queensland man John William Short, who worked with Hunt at Motors in Hobart.

Mr Short said Hunt gave him a ride home to Glenorchy on the night Ms Butterworth disappeared.

‘‘I remember that night because the next few days afterwards it was all in the news about her disappearance,’’ Mr Short said.

The inquest heard Hunt, a then New Norfolk resident, would have had to drive through Claremont to get home after dropping off Mr Short.

Mr Short said he remembered Hunt ‘‘lying a lot’’.

‘‘He said he had a girlfriend that worked at Channel 6,’’ Mr Short said.

‘‘I didn’t take much notice because he was such a liar,’’ he said.

He said in later years he went to the police to give information about Ms Butterworth’s disappearance ‘‘but no one listened.’’

Mr Short said Hunt drove a pale blue Holden, which other witnesses have placed at the bus stop when Ms Butterworth disappeared.

Earlier, a former prisoner told the inquest that Hunt had told him in jail that he had killed ‘‘another woman’’ as well as car saleswoman Susan Knight.

George Town man Philip Harris said he asked Hunt when he would ‘‘be up’’ for the second murder.

‘‘He said, ‘I won’t be, they haven’t found the body yet’,’’ Mr Harris said.

Mr Harris said Hunt was smiling when he told him.

‘‘He was laughing about killing this woman, he wasn’t right,’’ he said.

Investigators believe Ms Butterworth became agitated after missing a bus to New Norfolk and accepted a ride with someone she knew, before meeting with foul play and dying on the same night.

The inquest continues.