{"id":34390,"date":"2025-07-31T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34390\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:12:10","slug":"sa-police-believe-missing-remains-of-julian-story-have-been-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34390\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Police believe missing remains of Julian Story have been found"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police believe the missing remains of alleged murder victim Julian Story have been found by a member of the public, but say testing will be undertaken to confirm.<\/p>\n

Warning: This story contains content some readers may find distressing.<\/p>\n

SA Police say they received information earlier today from a member of the public that they had found what appeared to be a human skull in scrub in Port Lincoln.<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke says the area the remains were found in had not previously been searched by police and was not an area of interest based on the information they had at the time.<\/p>\n

“Preliminary investigations and phone calls to Forensic Science Centre has provided information that the remains are most likely human and I believe that they are the remains of Julian Story,” he said.<\/p>\n

“To confirm this however, those remains are going to be subjected to further forensic and scientific testing over the coming days.”<\/p>\n

The announcement on Thursday came a week after police said they had called off searches around the Port Lincoln area for Mr Story’s remains.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke says police expect to have results from forensic testing “soon”. (ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n

Police allege Mr Story was murdered by his partner, Tamika Chesser<\/a>, sometime around midnight on June 17.<\/p>\n

Ms Chesser was a contestant on television show Beauty and the Geek in 2010.<\/p>\n

On June 19, emergency services discovered the 39-year-old’s body in a unit shared by the couple on the Flinders Highway.<\/p>\n

The following week, police said they were yet to locate Mr Story’s head in an appeal to help with the search for his remains.<\/p>\n

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Former Beauty and the Geek contestant Tamika Chesser has been accused of murder. (Supplied: Facebook)<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Fielke said Mr Story’s family had been contacted with the update.<\/p>\n

He said they were “very happy with the progress” that had been made and were planning his funeral.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Hopefully we can give them some comfort that we’ve found all of the remains of Julian,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said major crime detectives have gone to Port Lincoln to undertake a “thorough search” where the remains were found, and asked for members of the public to avoid the area.<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Fielke also thanked the Port Lincoln community, which he said had been through a “difficult” period.<\/p>\n

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Police at the scene where a member of the public has found remains believed to belong to alleged murder victim Julian Story. (ABC News: Tim McGlone)<\/p>\n

He said he understood someone was walking their dog when they discovered the remains, which were found in a large area of scrub east of the Port Lincoln township.<\/p>\n

“One of those situations where the dog ran off into the scrub, the dog didn’t come back immediately on being called,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The person who’s walking the dog has gone in to see what’s going on and that’s how those remains were discovered.<\/p>\n

“They weren’t on the walking track, or in visible sight or vision of the walking track, you actually had to walk into that scrub area to find it.”<\/p>\n

He said the remains were “quite in the open” when police arrived.<\/p>\n

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Police say the bushland where the skull has been found was not previously an area of interest. (ABC News: Duncan Bailey)<\/p>\n

Detective Superintendent Fielke said it was a “significant find” for police and for Mr Story’s family.<\/p>\n

“They are still working through what is a horrific event for their family, but we’ve maintained contact with them the whole way along \u2026 they’re hoping that this is Julian, obviously, so that they can move on, have the funeral with all of Julian’s remains,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They’re clearly dealing with a lot.”<\/p>\n

He said police had not spoken to Ms Chesser yet but would do so “at the appropriate time, when we can”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police believe the missing remains of alleged murder victim Julian Story have been found by a member of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31590,43,31589,44,10174,5326,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-34390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-darren-fielke","tag-headlines","tag-julian-story","tag-news","tag-sa-police","tag-sapol","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}