Magnificence and the Geek Australian alum Tamika Chesser has reportedly given beginning in jail after allegedly beheading her boyfriend Julian Story final yr.
Australia’s 9 Information reported that Chesser, 34, was pregnant on the time of her 2025 arrest however that the daddy of her youngster has not been publicly recognized.
Us Weekly reached out to Chesser and South Australia Well being for remark.
On June 19, 2025, investigators found 39-year-old Story’s burnt and dismembered physique on the couple’s Port Lincoln house within the Decrease Eyre Peninsula. Chesser was subsequently charged with homicide, destroying human stays and perverting the course of justice.
The previous mannequin has been held at psychological well being facility James Nash Home, close to Adelaide, since her arrest final June. She is predicted to look in court docket in April. (Chesser has but to enter a plea.)
Australian broadcaster ABC reported in June 2025 that police had been referred to as to the couple’s house when a neighbor observed smoke coming from their unit. Per a police report, a witness stated they “noticed the accused and requested what she was doing, the accused stated ‘nothing’ after which took her canine for a stroll and locked the entrance door.”
After the witness tried to throw a bucket of water at Chesser and Story’s unit, they finally referred to as emergency companies. Police quickly arrived on the scene and found Story’s beheaded physique in a toilet.
Chesser was found in a “catatonic and unresponsive state” in a close-by yard and brought into custody, per South Australian police.
Tamika Chesser on “Magnificence and the Geek Australia” season 2.
Courtesy YouTube/Magnificence and the Geek“We all know that after his alleged homicide, Julian’s physique was dismembered and whereas I gained’t present any additional particulars about that at the moment, I can tragically say that we’ve not recovered the pinnacle of Julian Story,” Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke introduced in a media briefing final June.
Fielke went on, “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.”
Detective Superintendent Fielke later confirmed to the media in September 2025 that Story’s cranium was recovered by a neighborhood canine, per the ABC.
“A kind of conditions the place the canine ran off into the scrub, the canine didn’t come again instantly on being referred to as,” the police spokesperson defined.
On the time of Story’s dying, his household thanked the general public for his or her “care” as they “navigat(ed) an unimaginable loss.”
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“Your care has introduced consolation amid the chaos,” his household advised the ABC. “We’re additionally deeply grateful to our household and pals and this extraordinary group whose kindness and help have helped carry us via. Your prayers, presence, and quiet power imply greater than phrases can say.”
Chesser was a runner-up on the second season of Australian actuality present Magnificence and the Geek in 2010. The truth present matched up conventionally enticing “Beauties” with “Geeks” — or, socially awkward males — in hopes of profitable a $100,000 grand prize.
The truth star was launched as “a cocktail” waitress on Magnificence and the Geek and described herself as “the most effective individual at making ‘animal noises.” Within the present’s intro video, Chesser stated that her “favourite characteristic can be my smile.”
Chesser was paired up with “Hawaiian shirt fanatic” Thomas Richardson-Smith on the truth present however they in the end misplaced to dancer Jessie Byrne and Nationwide Math Champion Michael Value in Magnificence and the Geek’s season 2 finale.