{"id":17982,"date":"2025-06-27T03:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17982\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:13:16","slug":"former-beauty-and-the-geek-contestant-accused-of-port-lincoln-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17982\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Beauty and the Geek contestant accused of Port Lincoln murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A former reality TV contestant accused of murdering her partner in Port Lincoln last week, has appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court where a suppression order on her identity has been lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><strong>Warning: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tamika Chesser, who was a contestant on Beauty and the Geek in 2010, appeared in court today via video link from psychiatric facility James Nash House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 34-year-old was arrested and charged with murder last Thursday after a man&#8217;s remains were found at a unit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screen shot of a reality TV contestant talking to the camera\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0724251d0b7e099d682c45f20a41e4c7\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Tamika Chesser appeared on Beauty and the Geek in 2010.\u00a0 (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">SA Police documents submitted to the court, obtained by the ABC, said emergency services were called to the property on the afternoon of June 19 after a neighbour reported a fire at Ms Chesser&#8217;s unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The document said police arrived at the scene after being called by firefighters, where they allegedly located the victim&#8217;s remains in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Once the scene was secure and safe police entered the premises and in the bathroom sighted the deceased remains which were severely burnt and disfigured,&#8221; the document said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A close up selfie of a blonde woman looking into the distance\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ec147df448618da1fc30cc54d5f4a4cf\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Tamika Chesser will appear in court again in December. (Supplied: Facebook)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">She will return to court again in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are due to speak on the case this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former reality TV contestant accused of murdering her partner in Port Lincoln last week, has appeared in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,17265,17266,9620,50,17267,17264],"class_list":{"0":"post-17982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-beauty-and-the-geek","10":"tag-contestant","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-partner","14":"tag-tamika-chesser"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114753149661081089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982","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=17982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}