A human skull found in scrubland by a person pursuing a wandering dog is believed to be the missing head of alleged murder victim Julian Story.<\/p>\n
Authorities had been searching for the head of Story, 39, since his dismembered body was discovered in the South Australian town of Port Lincoln on 19 June.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, a resident told police they had found a skull in scrub, Det Supt Darren Fielke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreliminary investigations and phone calls to the forensic science centre have provided information that the remains are most likely human and I believe they are the remains of Julian Story,\u201d the major crime officer-in-charge said.<\/p>\n
Former Beauty and the Geek reality TV contestant Tamika Sueann Rose Chesser, 34, has been charged with Story\u2019s murder. She was arrested on 19 June after Story\u2019s body was found at the couple\u2019s home at Port Lincoln, on the Eyre peninsula.<\/p>\n
Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n On 27 June, Fielke issued a plea for public help \u201cbecause tragically, we have not recovered the head of Julian Story\u201d.<\/p>\n He said major crime officers had been redeployed to Port Lincoln after the discovery of the skull on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cMy understanding is that the person who contacted us today was walking their dog in that area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe dog ran off into the scrub. The dog didn\u2019t come back when called. The person has gone in to see what\u2019s going on and that\u2019s how those remains were discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n Story\u2019s family had been told of the discovery and \u201chopefully we can give them some comfort that we have found all the remains of Julian\u201d, Fielke said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are still planning for a funeral, which I believe will be towards the end of next week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The skull would be sent to Adelaide for forensic and scientific testing.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s not Julian Story, then clearly we\u2019ve got some other work to do, but I believe that it is,\u201d Fielke said.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Breaking News Australia<\/p>\n Get the most important news as it breaks<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The alleged murder scene was \u201csuburbs away\u201d from where the skull was found, in an area known as \u201cslipway scrub\u201d.<\/p>\n Fielke thanked the community for their help and said they had been through \u201cquite a process\u201d with the focus on their town. A police guard had been placed on the site with more searches planned.<\/p>\n Chesser appeared in Port Lincoln magistrates court on Thursday via video link from James Nash House, a psychiatric facility in Adelaide. She is also accused of assaulting a police officer the day after her arrest and faces unrelated charges of assault and disorderly behaviour.<\/p>\n The matters were adjourned and Chesser will reappear in court on 18 December.<\/p>\n In June, police released still images and video of a woman they allege was Chesser walking on Port Lincoln streets that were recorded after the killing, which investigators allege occurred about midnight on 17 June.<\/p>\n The images show a woman wearing a black headscarf and black full-body coverings, carrying a bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A human skull found in scrubland by a person pursuing a wandering dog is believed to be the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-108004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948845322184222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}