Australian Chef Kills And Cooks Girlfriend

isaac

October 8, 2014 2:15 PM

This is really hard to believe that a once loving man could kill and cook his girlfriend before killing himself. That is what the Australian police discovered when neighbours of on Marcus Volke reported after they perceived an acrid smell in his apartment.

Marcus Volke, a 28-year-old Australian chef, has killed and cooked his transgender girlfriend, Mayang Prasetyo, before killing himself in what has been described as the most hideous crime in the history of the country, the Australian police say.

According to Sky News, Marcus Volke was fleeing officers who had come to his Brisbane apartment after reports of a foul smell, when he slashed his own throat in a bin.

Police officers discovered body parts of Volke's girlfriend in a pot on the stove, while other parts of the Indonesian woman's mutilated body were found in garbage bins outside the apartment, according to local media.

Local media say the couple had moved into the recently opened apartment complex in the wealthy riverside suburb Teneriffe just weeks ago.

Volke had met his Mayang while they were both working on international cruise ships and had recently returned to Australia, his mother, Dorothy Volke said.

He was happy and he was coming home for Christmas, everything was normal.

Police said they were trying to establish the exact time of death. They arrived at the apartment when other residents in the complex said a rotting meat smell had pervaded the area.

Volke then fled through a glass door and leapt over a balcony and hid in an alleyway where he killed himself.

Resident Courtney Reichart told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (ABC), that she first noticed the smell three days earlier and it got worse each day before the police were called.

I came out for a walk and the smell made your eyes water, it made you want to be sick. The smell 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 'hmmm what's that smell', but you don't put two and two together. You don't think that a bad smell equals a murder.

isaac