An Australian chef killed his girlfriend and boiled parts of her dismembered body in pots before taking his own life, reports say.
Marcus Volke, 28, cut his own throat while fleeing police who had come to investigate after neighbours had reported a “bad smell” emerging from the man’s Brisbane apartment.
Officers on the scene found body parts cooking in a pot filled with chemicals and other body parts in garbage bags outside the apartment block in the wealthy suburb of Teneriffe, the Brisbane Courier Mail reports.
According to the Brisbane Times, police are yet to officially identify Mayang Prasetyo as the victim. But friends have been mourning the young Indonesian, who had been employed at Melbourne transgender cabaret show Le Femme Garcon and had moved to Brisbane to live with Volke. The couple had met when they were both working aboard international cruise ships, Sky News reports.
Police were called to Volke’s apartment after other residents of the complex reported the smell of “rotting meat”.
Resident Courtney Reichart told the ABC that she had first noticed the smell last Wednesday, but it had become progressively worse throughout the week.
“On Saturday when I came out for a walk, it made your eyes water, it made you want to be sick,” she said. “The smell it was like as if somebody had put out some dog food or red meat and left it out for a few days.
“It makes you feel sick that that poor girl sat there for however many days and we’ve been walking past, living our lives and thinking ‘hmm what’s that smell’, but you don’t put two and two together.
“You don’t think that a bad smell equals a murder.”
Earlier today, police were seen helping a commercial waste disposal team remove a large bin from the apartment labelled “toxic”.- The Week
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