On this weblog, we’re going to focus on two separate circumstances the place Australian girls have dedicated homicide and have decapitated their victims.
The primary case is concerning a actuality TV star/contestant named Tamika Chesser who appeared on the Australian model of Magnificence and the Geek in 2010. She has lately been accused of murdering and decapitating her accomplice, Julian Story in June 2025.
As some background, Tamika has a resume on-line and that is some data from that:
Australian Mannequin /Actress Tamika Chesser delivers a constructive angle to any environment & may be very partaking, bold, trustworthy, dependable with a well mannered down-to-earth nature.
Enjoys sustaining her well being/health and a balanced way of life.
Tamika continues to intention for greater success and new challenges.
Out there to journey to auditions plus jobs if required.
Her social media is full of racy and glamorous images.
She has additionally posted a sequence of pictures that seem to replicate Jewish and Hindu mythology.
In a put up from June 2024, she wrote at size about her “non secular journey”.
“Our Creator our Father and our Mom Nature our Earth are crying out to us all,” she writes.
“What do you assume your ancestors would say regarding the life you’re at the moment residing? Would they be proud?
“What do you see behind the make-up, behind the false lashes behind the hair reduce or completely groomed beard … behind the Botox … Is the flesh you reside in of relevance? Does it make you the particular person you might be?”
Tamika’s on-line resume signifies that she was primarily based in Queensland, however sooner or later she relocated to South Australia. In June 2025, Tamika – who was 34 – and Julian – who was 39 – have been residing in a unit collectively in Port Lincoln, South Australia.
Police have since mentioned that Tamika solely arrived in Port Lincoln shortly earlier than the homicide.
Within the months previous to the homicide, Tamika had been struggling along with her psychological well being.
Her sister instructed the media “It simply began getting worse.”
“She began being out and in of psychological well being. She didn’t point out something and she or he simply instructed everybody that she loves them.”
“It’s my sister, however that’s not who she is or the Tamika we all know,” the sister, talking softly with a blurred-out face, mentioned.
“That’s not the Tamika anybody is aware of.”
Tamika had been checked out of a psychological well being facility in Port Lincoln simply weeks earlier than the alleged homicide, regardless of her household’s pleas.
On the afternoon of Thursday June 19, 2025, police have been known as to the unit the place Tamika and Julian have been residing after experiences of a fireplace.
In line with the paperwork, a witness instructed police that “he noticed smoke coming from unit 3 [and] he noticed the accused and requested what she was doing, the accused mentioned ‘nothing’ after which took her canines for a stroll and locked the entrance door,” it mentioned.
“The witness involved that smoke or hearth would unfold … stuffed a bucket with water and entered unit 3 by means of the rear door.
“Within the lavatory of the unit, he situated a bundle of clothes rags and particles which was smouldering.
“The witness doused this and repeated this with a second bucket of water.
Police have mentioned that Tamika walked across the city for hours after the homicide. She could be seen strolling with a bag, canines, and wearing heavy clothes.
The doc mentioned police arrived on the scene after being known as by firefighters, the place they allegedly situated Julian’s stays – minus his head – within the lavatory.
“As soon as the scene was safe and secure, police entered the premises and within the lavatory sighted the deceased stays which have been severely burnt and disfigured,” the paperwork mentioned.
Tamika had returned to the unit by this time and she or he was arrested.
“The accused was seated in a backyard chair within the rear yard adjoining to unit 3 in a catatonic and unresponsive state right now.”
There was initially a suppression order concerning Tamika’s id. It was quickly lifted and we came upon extra concerning the state of affairs.
Tamika was taken to the psychiatric facility James Nash Home. She was charged with homicide. She appeared in court docket through video, and had a shaved head.
Her sister mentioned they’d been unable to talk with Tamika after her arrest.
“We will’t have contact along with her. She’s nonetheless unresponsive in the mean time,” she mentioned.
“It is extremely unhappy and I’m very sorry to Julian’s household.”
Police made this assertion on June 27, 2025.
“We all know that after his alleged homicide, Julian’s physique was dismembered and whereas I received’t present any additional particulars about that right now, I can tragically say that we’ve not recovered the pinnacle of Julian Story,” Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke mentioned.
“I can solely think about … the grief this information is inflicting Julian’s household.
“It’s essential that we find Julian’s head in order that his household has the chance to put him to relaxation.”
Police additionally requested for data on Tamika’s actions throughout the time across the homicide.
“Immediately I’m asking the area people, or folks which may know Julian or Tamika to please contact us,” Detective Superintendent Fielke mentioned.
“I’m interesting to native residents to overview CCTV or dashcam footage which they might have that will help the investigation.
“Particularly, we’re in search of to determine the actions of Tamika, significantly between midnight Tuesday, 17 June till the afternoon Thursday 19 June.”
“We all know that they have been in a relationship collectively … it’s one thing that’s being explored, that home relationship,” he mentioned.
Detective Superintendent Fielke mentioned there was no apparent motive at this stage and Tamika was compliant when she was arrested.
Julian’s household issued an announcement on the time:
“We’re navigating an unimaginable loss, and your care has introduced consolation amid the chaos,” the assertion learn.
“We’re additionally deeply grateful to our household and mates and this extraordinary neighborhood whose kindness and help have helped carry us by means of. Your prayers, presence, and quiet power imply greater than phrases can say.”
Tamika has additionally been charged with assaulting an emergency employee. She was scheduled to entrance court docket on July 31 for the assault case, and the homicide cost is anticipated to be known as in the next court docket in December.
That is data concerning the July 31 look:
The 34-year-old girl appeared at Port Lincoln Magistrates Courtroom on Thursday through AVL from James Nash Home, a psychiatric facility.
She sported a shaved head and wore a blue sweater and greeted Justice of the Peace Patrick Hill with a “good day”.
Ms Chesser is an Indigenous girl and Justin Slater, a solicitor with the Aboriginal Authorized Rights Motion, represented her in court docket.
He instructed Mr Hill he had ordered “experiences” into the fees.
“We’re doing our personal experiences in relation to those issues,” he mentioned.
He requested Mr Hill to adjourn issues till a cost willpower had been made for Ms Chesser’s extra severe allegations and Mr Hill agreed to the request, setting December 18 at Port Lincoln for the subsequent listening to.
When requested if she understood her listening to could be adjourned, Ms Chesser replied: “Yep”.
On the identical day that Tamika appeared in court docket, Julian’s head was recovered.
SA Police Main Crime boss Darren Fielke introduced the discover at a press convention:
‘Earlier at present police acquired data from a member of the general public in Port Lincoln that they’ve situated in a scrub space what seemed to be a human cranium,’ he mentioned.
‘There are some strolling tracks by means of there, my understanding is the one who contacted us at present was strolling their canine within the space. The canine ran off into the scrub, it didn’t come again when known as.
‘They needed to stroll into the scrub space to search out it [the head]. [The remains] weren’t buried. They have been fairly out within the open.’
‘Preliminary investigations and telephone calls to forensic science centre point out the stays are almost definitely human and I imagine they’re the stays of Julian Story.
‘Julian’s household have been contacted at present and supplied an replace in relation to what has been situated and what the continued course of is from right here. Hopefully we can provide them some consolation that we’ve discovered all of the stays of Julian,’ he mentioned.
The person who discovered Julian’s head has spoken to the media.
Tyson McCallum was strolling within the space when his canine Benji the Beaglier discovered what police imagine is a human head.
“I simply went in a bit nearer and form of made the connection fairly rapidly as to what I believed it was,” he instructed 9News.
“(It was) fairly surreal to be trustworthy,” he added.
“I used to be form of like ‘No approach, it’s not what I believe it’s, certainly not’. However it was too coincidental.”
The second case we’re going to focus on is one which occurred in Sydney, Australia in July 2019. Jessica Camilleri (25) was residing within the suburb of St Clair along with her mom Rita. Jessica was born on October 12, 1993.
It was simply the 2 of them within the residence – Rita had separated from her husband and her older daughter had moved out of residence. Rita was Jessica’s sole carer.
Jessica had diagnoses together with autism spectrum dysfunction, an mental incapacity and intermittent explosive dysfunction, Obsessive Compulsive Dysfunction (“OCD”), despair, and schizophrenia.
Jessica was positioned in a studying help unit when she attended faculty and was in a particular studying class. She discovered it laborious to make mates and she or he typically didn’t get together with different youngsters. She was bullied and responded with outbursts of violence. When she was in Grade 9, she was suspended for biting the arm of a boy and attacking his girlfriend. She was expelled from faculty in Grade 10 after she assaulted a fellow pupil.
After she was expelled, she participated in a vocational program known as ‘ Novo Transition to Work’. She was concerned in violent altercations there and the police grew to become concerned. She needed to depart this system.
For a interval, Jessica lived along with her grandmother after she fought along with her mother and father. That association ended after she assaulted her aunt. She went again to dwell with Rita.
In June 2018, Jessica’s behaviour grew to become more and more aggressive. A psychiatrist, Dr Chaudhary, identified her with an “mental incapacity, poor anger management, impulsive behaviour, OCD and excessive anxiousness ranges”. Hypnotherapy 4 occasions weekly commenced at about this time. Reviewing the medical notes Professor Greenberg noticed that it was obvious that the offender:
“… had excessive anxiousness ranges and lack of perception inflicting frustration to construct up and her capability to tolerate stress lower inflicting her to lash out with out fascinated about the results”.
Jessica was admitted to hospital in November 2018. She was prescribed valium and an anti depressant. She stopped taking the anti depressant in December 2018.
Within the months previous to July 2019, Jessica had stopped taking her medicine. She had instructed household that she wished to hunt extra pure options to deal with her situations.
Jessica cherished watching horror films. Her two favorite movies have been Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath and Jeepers Creepers. She watched these on DVD repeatedly. Her sister generally took the DVDs as she thought they weren’t appropriate viewing, and this may enrage Jessica. Rita gave her the DVDs again as a technique to hold the peace.
In line with the Case Legislation court docket paperwork for this case, considered one of Jessica’s repeated behaviours concerned her dialling random telephone numbers and talking with whoever answered the telephone.
On July 19, 2019, Rita took Jessica to the St Marys Police Station to talk to police. This was as a result of Jessica had revamped 30 calls to a random man that day. She began calling the person very early within the morning and woke him up. She then ended a number of the calls by saying she hoped the person received most cancers and died.
Rita wished a police officer to talk to Jessica and warning her about her behaviour. Senior Constable Ayley Ross spoke to Jessica and defined that the behaviour couldn’t proceed.
The next day was Saturday, July 20 2019. There have been numerous incidents that occurred that day that led to heightened tensions within the Camilleri residence.
A younger relative of the ladies went to their residence that day. This little one was 4 years previous. Jessica grew to become resentful and jealous. Rita gave the kid some consideration and this angered Jessica.
A neighbor of the ladies, Ms Heard, requested Rita for assist attending to a health care provider’s surgical procedure that day. Ms Heard had been having chest ache.
The kid is known as ‘ Youngster A’ in court docket paperwork. That is data concerning the incident.
She blamed Youngster A for inflicting delay as Mrs Camilleri organised herself to help her neighbour. The offender was noticed by Ms Heard to be fairly hysterical, and she or he referred to Youngster A repeatedly as a “little bastard”. The neighbour instructed the offender to relax. Within the automobile throughout the drive to the physician’s surgical procedure, the offender berated her mom for having Youngster A to remain, telling her “You will have that little bastard too typically”.
It looks like Jessica and Rita each took their neighbor to the physician. The kid additionally went with them. Whereas they have been within the physician’s surgical procedure, a person on the street checked out Jessica. This angered her and she or he blamed her mom for the person’s consideration. When Ms Heard received out of her appointment, she mentioned Jessica was yelling and throwing her arms round. The kid was crying and Rita was making an attempt to calm Jessica down. Jessica was mentioned to be swearing and screaming at Rita, and accused her of ‘all the time embarrassing’ her.
Later that day once they have been again at their residence, Jessica grew to become unwell and Rita known as a house physician service. Rita instructed the physician that Jessica had abdomen or gastrointestinal points.
The physician arrived on the residence at 9.25pm and will hear Jessica speaking on the telephone, ordering quick meals. Rita got here to the door and requested Jessica to get off the telephone in order that the physician might look at her. Jessica ignored Rita and could possibly be heard making an attempt to steer the quick meals employee on the telephone to say ‘ I like you ‘ to her.
The physician waited for one more ten minutes. Jessica didn’t present any indicators of being unwell and refused to get off the telephone, so the physician left.
At about 10pm, Rita spoke along with her older daughter Kristi Torrisi on the telephone. She instructed Kristi that she was so involved about Jessica’s behaviour, that she was going to name an ambulance and request that Jessica be taken to hospital.
Jessica didn’t wish to go to hospital and feared any form of institutionalisation. She instructed one good friend beforehand that she would relatively kill somebody than go to a psychiatric hospital.
Rita tried to telephone an ambulance and Jessica tried to bodily cease her from making the decision. There was a wrestle over the cell phone and Jessica was in a position to take it from her mom.
Rita adopted Jessica into the bed room and tried to take the telephone off her with the intention to name emergency companies.
A wrestle ensued. Jessica was a lot bigger in stature than Rita. Police imagine that Rita was knocked to the ground after which Jessica dragged her by her hair into the kitchen.
As soon as within the kitchen, Jessica used seven totally different knives to assault Rita. She stabbed her mom over 100 occasions. The assault was so brutal that 4 of the knives broke. A number of the wounds handed by means of her proper eye socket and into her mind.
This data concerning the frenzied assault is from Case Legislation:.
Restraining her mom, very possible with the burden of her physique, she directed an indeterminate however very excessive variety of knife blows at her mom’s head and neck, finally decapitating Mrs Camilleri on the C2 vertebra, on the high of the neck.
The neck wound was described as “ragged [and] considerably pulped […] with innumerable overlapping stab wounds within the higher neck [being] no less than 100 stab wounds and incised wounds current over all the floor of the pinnacle”. This included accidents to the entire of the floor of the face and head. There was a stab wound into the correct eye that entered the liner of the mind, and the tip of Mrs Camilleri’s nostril had been reduce off, most likely with an upwards stabbing blow that finally pierced the bony plate upon which the mind sits. The tongue had been reduce off with a number of overlapping stab wounds, the injuries having a usually upwards trajectory. Dr Pokorny thought that the elimination of the tongue was, both deliberately or in any other case, related to the complicated decapitating wounds to the neck relatively than separate to them. There have been some superficial wounds to the stomach.
Rita tried to defend herself throughout the assault. She had 33 stab wounds to the correct hand and no less than 62 accidents to her left hand. There have been some bruises and wounds to the left arm and a few abrasions to the correct arm that have been suggestive of the usage of a serrated knife.
There was an air embolus inside a blood vessel in her neck which meant that Rita had been upright and respiratory at one level throughout the assault. She possible died quickly after she was stabbed in a vein in her neck.
Each of Rita’s eyeballs have been faraway from the attention sockets throughout the assault.
Youngster A was residence throughout the assault. He wakened and noticed what was taking place and tried to assist Rita. He jumped onto Jessica to attempt to cease the assault and he additionally used the cardboard lid of a toy field to attempt to strike out at Jessica.
Jessica pushed the kid off and injured him with a knife within the course of. He sustained a deep wound operating down his cheek, parallel with an ear, and lacerations to his head and arms. The cheek wound required surgical procedure, and the pinnacle wound needed to be sutured. The kid had been so distressed by what he had seen that he vomited.
After Jessica decapitated Rita, she picked up her mom’s head and went out onto the road.
A number of occasions, she dropped the pinnacle on the footpath and picked it up, strolling additional down the road. She would finally drop the pinnacle and go to a neighbor’s residence. She requested for emergency companies to be known as. Jessica herself known as 000 and requested for each police and an ambulance.
Jessica was carrying a nightgown, was barefoot and fully coated in her mom’s blood when she went to the neighbour’s residence.
When police arrived, Jessica gave them an account of what occurred. She first mentioned that Rita was the aggressor and that she had tried to defend herself.
“Mum […] grabbed me by the hair dragged me from my room all the way in which to the kitchen, she received a knife out of the cabinet and tried to stab me with it coz I believe she’s had sufficient. She was pulling me by the hair she’s ripped out all my hair, there’s hair all over the place, […] and she or he stabbed me and she or he broke my finger.”
Law enforcement officials wore physique cameras and that is a number of the transcript from that evening.
“Can I ask, is my mum useless?” she asks.
“Don’t assume I’m insane, however you possibly can’t convey her again to life?”
Jessica says she knew “medical doctors can do miracles”.
“That’s a little bit of a stretch,” an officer replied.
“Is something going to occur to me … do I get the demise penalty?” Jessica requested.
“We don’t do the demise penalty in Australia,” an officer mentioned.
“OK, so I’ve received nothing to fret about.”
Jessica requested that her household be known as as a result of “they’re the one ones who can clarify it correctly”.
“I’ve received a psychological sickness,” she mentioned.
She additionally spoke about going to the neighbour and asking for assist in calling 000.
“I had my mum’s head in my hand, I do know this sounds insane, I used to be taking it to point out my neighbour,” she mentioned.
Jessica would later give her model of occasions main as much as the homicide. She mentioned that she and Rita had a ‘petty argument’ about Jessca going to a psychological well being facility.
“She mentioned: ‘I would like you out of my life.’ She mentioned: ‘I should have a free and joyful life,’” Jessica mentioned.
She mentioned that her mom really dragged her into the kitchen and there was a wrestle. Jessica alleged that Rita grabbed the knife first.
“She wished to kill me,” Jessica mentioned.
“I don’t know what her intentions have been … she was so pissed off and confused.”
Jessica then detailed the assault and the way she was “ramming” the knife.
“I used to be so offended — in a match of rage, like I’ve by no means been earlier than,” Jessica mentioned.
She additionally mentioned she was “not match” to go to jail.
“I’ve received a very unhealthy sickness,” she instructed the officer.
“The one place I’m most likely match for is a bunch residence.”
“I perceive my household are most likely not going to need me after this,” she mentioned.
In December 2020, Jessica’s case was taken to court docket. She had initially been charged with homicide and pleaded not responsible to that. The protection’s argument was that impairment of her thoughts prompted her to lose management of her actions. In addition they argued that the severity of her psychological well being points warranted the cost being decreased to manslaughter.
It took the jury simply over two days to search out Jessica responsible of manslaughter.
Jessica was sentenced in February 2021. Her sentence was 21 years in jail for “against the law of extraordinary viciousness and brutality”. She was given a non-parole interval of 16 years and two months.
Family members within the public gallery started to cry and mentioned “thanks” after studying the sentence.
Justice Wilson accepted the crime — which concerned seven separate knives, 4 of which broke — was “fully spontaneous” and predicated by Jessica’s worry of being returned to a psychological establishment.
It concerned “damaging and mutilating brutality” upon Rita.
“She should have been in excessive ache, and each shocked and terrified by what was being accomplished to her by her personal beloved little one,” Justice Wilson mentioned.
“Mrs Camilleri’s life was reduce brief in essentially the most horrible method possible.”
The choose mentioned by additional mutilating her mom’s physique after she had died, Jessica was “indulging in a form of macabre curiosity” sparked by her obsessive viewing of horror films.
Justice Wilson mentioned Jessica’s crime meant she had misplaced not solely her mom, however “her carer, protector, and solely actual good friend”.
Jessica’s sister Kristi pledged in court docket that she would by no means forgive her.
In a sufferer impression assertion, Kristi condemned her sibling’s selfishness, saying Jessica was supplied, however refused, all attainable assist from each kin and professionals.
She mentioned didn’t care what occurred to her sister as soon as she was launched.
Regardless of this sentence, in 2023, the case was taken to the Supreme Courtroom.
Justice Peter Hamill dismissed claims that Jessica’s sentence was “manifestly extreme” and that the sentencing choose had been incorrect of their evaluation of the “gravity” of the crime.
Justice Hamill nonetheless dominated that she needs to be resentenced, with help from justices Christine Adamson and Richard Cavanagh.
“Objectively, the info have been grotesque and brutal and concerned a frenzied assault on an harmless sufferer in her own residence,” Justice Hammil mentioned.
“Alternatively, the offence was spontaneous and the results of Camilleri shedding management of herself due to her complicated psychiatric sickness.
“Her behaviour of strolling into the road along with her mom’s head and dropping it, in addition to asking emergency companies personnel whether or not they might reattach it, demonstrated the extent to which the applicant’s conduct was divorced from the actual world.”
Primarily based on the proof of a number of psychiatrists and a psychologist, Justice Hammil discovered Jessica had solely a “easy understanding” of ethical wrongfulness as a consequence of her mental incapacity and autism spectrum dysfunction.
He ordered that she be resentenced to a jail time period of 16 years, with a non-parole interval of 12 years.
Jessica can be eligible for parole from July 20, 2031.
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https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/front-page-news/update-on-port-lincoln-murder2
https://www.starnow.com/u/tamikachesser
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/information/article-14957249/update-julian-story-tamika-chesser.html
https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/choice/1781f816e53c1a136805ac14
