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The Sun
7 hours ago
- The Sun
Former reality TV star of Beauty And The Geek is arrested for murder after her partner's body is found in grisly scene
A FORMER reality TV star from Beauty and the Geek has been arrested and charged with murder after her partner's body was found in their house. Emergency services were called to the home in Port Lincoln, South Australia, to reports of a fire. 3 3 3 When they investigated, they found a man's body inside. The unnamed 34-year-old was arrested at the scene and later charged with murder. She was once a contestant on reality show Beauty and the Geek, reports The Courier Mail. The social experiment programme brings together attractive women with nerdy men in a mansion. The victim and the suspect had been in a relationship together, South Australia Police confirmed. The woman refused bail and remains in custody. Major crime investigators and forensic officers were flown into Port Lincoln to assist local authorities with the investigation. One told Perth Now the woman is 'really nice, very pleasant, polite.' Ian Parrott, of South Australia Police, said: "I can reassure members of the community that this is not a random incident. Argentina's Lucy Letby' in court after murdering 5 newborns & trying to kill 8 more in chillingly similar case to UK's baby killer "We understand that the female who has been arrested and the deceased male both lived at this address." It is understood the couple had recently moved in together. He continued: "It is still very early stages of this investigation and it's likely that the Major Crime investigators and the forensic response members will be there most of today." Parrot said the cause of death was yet to be determined and that further details could not yet be released as the victim's family hadn't been notified. The woman has been detained under the Mental Health Act and did not seek bail. She is expected to return to court in December. A suppression order is in place preventing the publication of any information that could identify the woman, the victim, or details surrounding the man's death. That order is due for review by the court next week.
Daily Mail
9 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Ex reality star charged with murder after her partner was found dead in a unit
A woman who starred on Beauty and the Geek has been charged with murder after a man's body was discovered in a home in Port Lincoln, South Australia. Emergency services were called to the property on Flinders Highway at about 3:25pm local time on Thursday following reports of a small fire. When crews arrived, they found a man dead inside the residence. A 34-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and later charged with murder. The Courier Mail reported on Friday that the woman was once a contestant on reality show Beauty and the Geek. South Australia Police have confirmed the victim and the accused were known to each other and had been in a relationship. The woman was refused police bail and remains in custody. Detectives from the Major Crime Investigation Branch and officers from the Forensic Response Section were flown into Port Lincoln to assist local authorities with the investigation. 'I can reassure members of the community that this is not a random incident,' SA Police State Operations Service Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott told reporters. 'We understand that the female who has been arrested and the deceased male both lived at this address,' he said. 'It is still very early stages of this investigation and it's likely that the Major Crime investigators and the forensic response members will be there most of today.' Assistant Commissioner Parrott said a cause of death had not yet been determined and no further details could be released, as the victim's family had not yet been notified. The woman did not apply for bail and has been detained under the Mental Health Act. She is expected to return to court in December. A suppression order preventing the publication of any information that could identify the woman, the victim, or the specific details surrounding the man's death was issued. The suppression order is set to be reviewed by the court next week.
News.com.au
a day ago
- News.com.au
South Australian Police arrest 34-year-old woman after man's body found in Port Lincoln home
South Australian Police have arrested a woman and will charge her with murder following the discovery of a man's body inside a home in Port Lincoln. Emergency services were called to the Flinders Highway property about 3.25pm on Thursday, police said, on reports of a 'small fire'. 'When police entered the property, they located the man's body inside the premises,' the statement read. 'A 34-year-old Port Lincoln woman has been arrested and will be charged with the man's murder.' The man and woman are both known to each other, police believe. Port Lincoln is a major fishing town located in the state's Eyre Peninsula, west of Adelaide. Major Crime Investigation Branch detectives and Forensic Response Section officers flew to the scene on Thursday night to help local officers with the investigation. The woman is due to appear at Port Lincoln Magistrates Court on Friday.
ABC News
a day ago
- ABC News
Port Lincoln woman arrested after man's body found at Flinders Highway property
The death of a man whose body was found at a property in regional South Australia is being treated as a murder, with police arresting a Port Lincoln woman. Emergency services were called to the property on the Flinders Highway about 3:25pm on Thursday after reports of a small fire, police said. Police said they found the man's body inside when they entered the house. A 34-year-old Port Lincoln woman, who police believe was known to the man, has been arrested. Police said she would be charged with murder. "Police believe both the man and woman are known to each other and there are no community safety concerns," police said. Detectives from SA Police's Major Crime branch, and forensic officers, flew to the region to assist local police with the investigation. Police have asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.
ABC News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Jaws 50 years on, the Australian filmmakers involved in the movie reflect on its legacy
If the biggest shock of Rodney Fox's life was nearly being killed by a shark off the coast of Adelaide, the next biggest might have been the lasting, lifelong impact of helping Steven Spielberg make a film about a killer great white. Now in his 80s, Mr Fox's lifetime of aiding great white shark research as a pioneering underwater filmmaker could be seen as being at odds with the legacy of Jaws. The Port Lincoln filmmaker was responsible for shooting the underwater sequences for the 1975 movie, which, according to many critics, demonised sharks and stoked fears around the world of swimming in the ocean. "They didn't know what they were getting involved in or about the rest of the script until after the movie was finished, and John Williams' music was applied," Mr Fox's son Andrew Fox said. "They knew it was a high budget film … different to a documentary. But they didn't realise how fictitious and horror-evoking it would all be." Along with Mr Fox, fellow underwater film pioneers Ron and Valerie Taylor were recruited by Spielberg to shoot scenes showing real sharks at Danger Reefs, off the coast of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The movie would not only change attitudes towards sharks, but shape Port Lincoln, turning a fishing town into a global tourism destination for divers and thrillseekers after Mr Fox capitalised on global interest and began running shark cage tours the year after. Swimming teacher Cherie Duncan still remembers the fear that coursed through the Eyre Peninsula community after the film's release. "I had so many children who were reluctant to go into the water after seeing or hearing about the movie, and their parents were similar," she said. "It continued to create fear for many years." The film's extraordinarily unrealistic portrayal of great whites did untold damage when it came to shark management in Australia and around the world, according to social scientist Christopher Pepin-Neff. So much so, it prompted the University of Sydney associate professor to coin the term, "The Jaws Effect". "The Jaws Effect is when you use a reference from a movie to explain a real-life event," Dr Pepin-Neff said. "It looks at the role of Jaws in creating an idea that this is shark behaviour, so this is how you need to deal with it … sharks are out to get us, and the only response is to kill the shark. "After the movie came out … sharks were all lumped together — not 500 different species but one dangerous thing. It meant policies were changed in fisheries that essentially made sharks a 'waste fish'. "The price of shark jaws went way up … there were hunting derbies. Andrew Fox believes the movie may have inadvertently helped the cause of great whites in the long run by changing "the way we think about sharks for the better". "There was an incredible amount of interest generated in sharks worldwide that inspired a whole generation of marine biologists and conservationists to appreciate great whites, in particular, and that attention flowed to other shark species," he said. In 1999, the federal government declared the great white vulnerable to extinction, which led to their protection in Australian waters. In more recent years, Italian shark researcher Alessandro De Maddalena believes the internet and social media play a role in public misperceptions about shark numbers and attacks. "Now we have people posting photos and videos … about sharks and shark attacks all the time," he said. "From this, people get the impression there are more. "But we have seen less and less great whites over the years since 2014 when I started to visit the Eyre Peninsula. "The average and maximum size we observed has decreased, which is typically something that you can observe when the population of a species decreases." According to a Flinders University study from October 2024, genomic research estimated Australia's great white population could be as low as 250. Calypso Star Charters is one of only two shark cage dive companies in Australia, and has been recording shark numbers on their tours at the Neptune Islands, near Port Lincoln, since 2011. From 2011 to 2014 — the first four years the company recorded statistics — there were more than 1,100 sightings per year, at an average of 105 per month. Last year, the company recorded just 222 sharks for the entire year. It has been a much better start to 2025, with 169 so far this year. Andrew Wright, who is the co-owner of Calypso Star Charters, is not concerned about the overall population and points toward a wide number of factors that could potentially be influencing shark behaviour. "I don't think there is a link between our numbers and the overall population," he said. "It could be a current that's running differently, it might be the burgeoning snapper population in the gulf, it might be related to tuna, it could be the major marine upwelling that's happened. "It's like, 'Why hasn't it rained the past 12 months?' There are a lot of things we just don't know." Like Port Lincoln's Rodney Fox, fellow underwater filmmakers Ron and Valerie Taylor had come to Spielberg's attention following their own work on other high-budget shark films. "We worked on a lot of films, but I never dreamt, neither did Ron, that it would be such a success," Ms Taylor said. Ms Taylor has spent a lifetime dedicated to marine conservation and, 50 years on from Jaws, is still buoyed by the positive impact the film had on many aspiring shark and ocean lovers. "It's much better than it used to be. It's amazing how interested young people, teenagers, are in the conservation of the ocean. Whereas in my day, all anyone wanted to do was kill," she said. "The ocean is the mother of all life on Earth. If it dies, we die. Simple."
