10-06-2014, 04:15 PM
Strange murder/suicide case making headlines in Australia
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^Indonesian dancer Mayang Prasetyo was reportedly murdered, dismembered and cooked by her Australian chef boyfriend Marcus Volke.
"I smelled something a few days ago, but we've had sewerage problems through the building over the past few weeks, which building managers have been trying to solve," Courtney Thorensen-Reichart, a tenant of the complex, told Brisbane Times. "It smelled like off dog food, so I just thought someone had either been feeding their animal or the dog had made a mess."
On Saturday night, police in Ballarat, Australia responded to a call about a smell of rotting meat in the complex. They found Volke cooking some of Prasetyo's body parts in chemicals on the stove and other of her remains in trash bags. He fled and stabbed himself to death in an industrial bin.
Volke's mother told reporters that there was no indication there was anything wrong with her son. She had not yet met his girlfriend.
Volke met Prasetyo -- a transgender cabaret dancer -- while working as a chef on an international cruise ship.A motive for the killing wasn't immediately clear. Neighbors said the couple was completely normal, and Volke's Facebook page revealed that he was critical of violence against women and animals.
Refs:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensla...0qwme.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06..._ref=crime
^Indonesian dancer Mayang Prasetyo was reportedly murdered, dismembered and cooked by her Australian chef boyfriend Marcus Volke.
"I smelled something a few days ago, but we've had sewerage problems through the building over the past few weeks, which building managers have been trying to solve," Courtney Thorensen-Reichart, a tenant of the complex, told Brisbane Times. "It smelled like off dog food, so I just thought someone had either been feeding their animal or the dog had made a mess."
On Saturday night, police in Ballarat, Australia responded to a call about a smell of rotting meat in the complex. They found Volke cooking some of Prasetyo's body parts in chemicals on the stove and other of her remains in trash bags. He fled and stabbed himself to death in an industrial bin.
Volke's mother told reporters that there was no indication there was anything wrong with her son. She had not yet met his girlfriend.
Volke met Prasetyo -- a transgender cabaret dancer -- while working as a chef on an international cruise ship.A motive for the killing wasn't immediately clear. Neighbors said the couple was completely normal, and Volke's Facebook page revealed that he was critical of violence against women and animals.
Refs:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensla...0qwme.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06..._ref=crime