Former Beauty and the Geek star Tamika Chesser is the woman accused of the grisly murder of her partner in Port Lincoln, it can now be revealed.
The 34-year-old was arrested on Thursday after police responded to reports of a small fire at the South Australia home she shared with her partner.
But when emergency services arrived, they found the body of her partner, Julian Daniel Story, inside.
Chesser was arrested at the scene and later charged with murder.
It is understood she had only moved in with Mr Story a few months earlier.
Her identity was revealed on Friday after Magistrate Ben Sale lifted a suppression order allowing her name and face to be made public.
Chesser sported a shaved head as she appeared in court via a videolink from mental health facility James Nash House.
She first appeared in court last week where she was refused bail, with a committal hearing scheduled for December.
Chesser, from Queensland, was the runner-up on the 2010 season of Beauty and the Geek.
She later modelled for men’s magazines including Playboy, Ralph and FHM.
Her social media accounts featured a mish mash of racy modelling photos and spirituality-themed posts.
‘Our Creator our Father and our Mother Nature our Earth are crying out to us all,’ she wrote in June 2024.
‘What do you think your ancestors would say in regards to the life you’re currently living? Would they be proud?’
Police allege Chesser murdered Mr Story sometime between June 16 and June 19.
SA Police Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott said on Friday the scene police found a day earlier was ‘complex’ and Mr Story’s cause of death wasn’t yet known.
Chesser is also charged with knowingly performing an act or omission intending to result in human remains being less likely to be found for the purposes of concealing the commission of an offence relating to the human remains.