An Australian reality TV bombshell was arrested in a “catatonic state” for allegedly chopping off her boyfriend’s head – which authorities say they are still desperately searching for to give closure to his family.

Tamika Sueann-Rose Chesser, 34, a former “Beauty and the Geek Australia” contestant, was hit with murder charges two days after police found the charred and mutilated remains of her 39-year-old beau, Julian Story, on the bathroom floor of an apartment in Port Lincoln, The Telegraph reported.

Police made the grim discovery on June 17 after responding to reports of a small fire in the dwelling.

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5 Tamika Sueann-Rose Chesser, 34, a former “Beauty and the Geek Australia” contestant, was charged with murder. Instagram/@tamikachesser

“I can tragically say that we have not recovered the head of Julian Story,” Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke told reporters Friday, noting a motive for the victim’s gruesome demise remains unknown.

“I can only imagine, and I want you to imagine, the grief this news is causing Julian’s family. Recovering Julian’s head to return it to his family so they can have a peaceful outcome, have a funeral and lay him to rest is a really important aspect for us.”

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5 Julian Story, 39, was found decapitated inside a Port Lincoln apartment on June 17. South Australian Police

Police also released surveillance footage and images of a woman, believed to be Chesser, dressed head-to-toe in black and walking through the southern Australian city with three dogs.

The footage — with the woman’s face obscured — was captured just hours after the savage killing, which police believe took place around midnight on June 17.

5 Surveillance image of a person, believed to be Chesser, walking three dogs. SA Police

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“I’m appealing to local residents to review CCTV or dash cam footage which they may have, which may assist the investigation,” Fielke said.

The model and actress was jailed after police found her in the backyard of the crime scene in a “catatonic and unresponsive state,” according to court documents obtained by the outlet.

5 She was also charged with disposing of human remains and assaulting a police officer. Instagram/@tamikachesser

The former reality star was also charged with disposing of human remains and assaulting a police officer.

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“This is not her,” Chesser’s worried sister, Kiya-May, told Daily Mail Australia, explaining that her alleged murderous sibling has faced a “life of trauma and abuse” that has “fried her brain.”

5 Tamika Sueann-Rose Chesser on Beauty and the Geek Australia. Beauty and the Geek Australia

“She would never do these things.”

Chesser, who was initially refused bail, is reportedly being held under a mental health detention order.

She expected to appear in court for a committal hearing in December.

Australian police have appealed for help to find the head of a man allegedly murdered by his partner, a former star in reality TV series “Beauty and the Geek Australia.”

Police said they charged Tamika Chesser with murder after 39-year-old Julian Story’s dismembered remains were found at an apartment in South Australia last week.

“It was a confronting scene for police and emergency services personnel as Julian’s body had been dismembered,” South Australia Police said in a statement Friday. “Julian’s head had been removed during the dismemberment and, despite extensive searches, has not yet been located.”

Police said his remains were discovered at a Port Lincoln home after they responded to reports of a fire, and they believe he was killed around midnight June 17.

Police documents submitted to the court, and obtained by public broadcaster ABC, said when officers arrived, they found “the “deceased remains which were severely burnt and disfigured.”

“The accused was seated in a garden chair in the rear yard adjacent to unit 3 in a catatonic and unresponsive state at this time,” the documents said, according to the ABC.

CCTV of Tamika Chesser South Australia Police

Detectives released CCTV images and video of Chesser, 34, to show what she was wearing around that time, and they asked people to help track her movements. Police are urging local residents to review any surveillance or dashcam footage they have which may help the investigation.

“Recovering Julian’s head to return it to his family so they can have a peaceful outcome, have a funeral, and lay him to rest, is a really important aspect for us,” Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke told a news conference.

Chesser appeared at Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday by video link, according to the ABC. The court lifted an order preventing her from being identified.

She was due to return to court in December.

Fielke said police knew Chesser had arrived in Port Lincoln recently, ABC reported, but added that there was no obvious motive at this stage of the investigation.

“We know that they were in a relationship together … it’s something that’s being explored, that domestic relationship,” he said.

Fielke also said Chesser was cooperative at the time of the arrest, the ABC reported.

The bereaved family of Story thanked police, emergency workers, family, friends and the community for their support.

“We are navigating an unimaginable loss, and your care has brought comfort amid the chaos,” the family said in a statement. “We are also deeply grateful to our family and friends and this extraordinary community whose kindness and support have helped carry us through.”

Julian Story Image supplied by family via South Australia Police

Chesser appeared in the 2010 series of “Beauty and the Geek Australia,” which put contestants chosen for their looks or intellect through a series of challenges.

A Beauty and the Geek star charged with the murder of her boyfriend was seen by Port Lincoln locals with her head shaved and acting oddly in the weeks beforehand.

Police are still searching for the missing head of local man, Julian Story, after Tamika Chesser allegedly killed him, decapitated him, carried his head in a bag to an unknown location and dumped it.

Officers, assisted by SES, are desperately searching cliffs and bush around the town along with the waters off the Eyre Peninsula, as Mr Story’s family are subjected to an horrific wait to bury their loved one.

Two residents in the famous South Australian fishing port told Daily Mail Australia that Ms Chesser only arrived in town a few months ago, and that they only remembered her as having a shaved head.

The 34-year-old, who finished second in series two of Beauty and the Geek in 2010, visited K-Mart and other shops in central Port Lincoln, usually accompanied by a small dog.

One shop worker said Ms Chesser ‘acted normal, but she was, like, bald’. However, footage has since emerged of the reality TV star – caught on CCTV or filmed by locals – acting strangely.

In one video, obtained by Channel 7, she is shown at a Port Lincoln hotel wearing a long dark wig and a hat, which she then ripped off as she yelled.

In another video she is also sporting a shaved head while doing gymnastics on bars outside a coffee shop, and in a third she is standing bare-chested at the Port Lincoln War Memorial.

Tamika Chesser shaved off her hair weeks before the alleged murder, said locals who saw her shopping in town with ‘a bald head’ but otherwise acting normal

Police allege Ms Chesser murdered Julian Story, 39, (above) at his Port Lincoln flat, then decapitated him, disposed of the head and set fire to his remains in the bathroom

Tamika Chesser at a Port Lincoln hotel, where she was seen wearing a long dark wig and a hat, which she then ripped off to reveal her shaved head (above)

Julian Story, 38, whose family still live in Port Lincoln, was living in a dingy rented flat along the town’s Flinders Highway, reportedly on his own until Ms Chesser moved in with him a few months ago.

She appears to have been living in Port Lincoln since at least last December.

Earlier this year, Mr Story was charged with two counts of dishonestly take property without consent, and last year was charged with two counts of disorderly behaviour.

He also has historical charges of damage building or motor vehicle, along with driving charges including drive motor vehicle with cannabis in blood.

It is unclear how Mr Story met the former cocktail waitress, whose full name is Tamika Sueann Rose Chesser, but it is believed she moved to South Australia from Queensland.

Police allege that Mr Story was murdered on about June 17, but it was not until June 19 that neighbours of the unit she shared with him were alerted to a fire coming from within.

Justin Ware said when he expressed concern at the smoke billowing out of the next door unit, that Ms Chesser ‘reckoned everything was okay’. He went inside anyway and threw some water on what he thought was a pile of smouldering rags, but was allegedly Mr Story’s headless remains.

When emergency services responded, they found Mr Story dismembered and missing his head on the bathroom floor of the apartment, according to police.

Police later obtained and released CCTV images and video which showed Ms Chesser walking three dogs and carrying a bag while wearing a Hijab-style head covering.

Tamika Chesser (above in Beauty and the Geek in 2010) appears to have been living in Port Lincoln since at least last December

A neighbour expressed concern at the smoke billowing out of the next door unit and he he went inside and threw some water on what he thought was a pile of smouldering rags, but was allegedly Mr Story’s headless remains

More footage showed Chesser dancing with a shaved head

Chesser also made an appearance at the Port Lincoln War Memorial in the centre of town, when she posed topless next to the monument’s inscription ‘LEST WE FORGET’

Police charged her with murder and, after being released from Port Lincoln hospital, she was admitted to James Nash House, a forensic mental health care facility.

Detective Darren Fielke told a press conference it was ‘crucial’ Mr Story’s head was returned to his family so they could hold a funeral.

In an effort to find Mr Story’s head, officers are appealing to the public for help in tracking Chesser’s movements in the week of the alleged murder, particularly between midnight on Tuesday night (June 17) and around the report of the fire at 3.30pm on Thursday afternoon (June 19).

‘We know that Tamika did not drive a vehicle and regularly walked around the township of Port Lincoln,’ Det Fielke said.

Tamika’s sister, Kiya-May Chesser, told Daily Mail Australia about the final phone call Tamika made before she was charged with murder.

Kiya-May said her family were reeling from reports their loved one had been charged.

‘Please report how my sister is in a mental psychosis,’ she said, ‘this is not her… She would never do these things.’

Tamika’s sister said the former reality TV star had recently been having mental health problems and had not been in a good place during their last phone call

Tamika Chesser, dressed in black, is caught on CCTV walking her dog and carrying a bag. Police are now looking for her boyfriend’s (right) missing head

Another view of Tamika walking through Port Lincoln with three dogs

In Tamika’s last phone call to her sister, a week before the alleged murder, she was worried about one of her dogs because it had ‘pooed on the floor’.

Mr Story, who was ‘not in a good mind space himself’ had on earlier phone calls been ‘going off in the background’ when the Chesser family spoke with Tamika.

‘There is more to this story,’ Kiya-May said.

She said ‘a lot has happened’ in Chesser’s life since she appeared on Beauty and the Geek and ‘in the past five years she’s become very mentally ill’.

In addition to the murder charge, South Australian police have charged Chesser with assaulting police and 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, court documents state.

Chilling new vision has emerged of what police claim to be former reality TV star Tamika Chesser shortly before she allegedly set fire to her partner’s remains.

Her sister has spoken out for the first time, telling 9News the allegations are not in line with her character.

Police claim the footage of a woman on a morning walk with her dog’s leash in one hand and what looks like a jerrycan in the other is Chesser.

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Tamika Chesser appeared on Beauty and the Geek at age 20 in 2010. (AAP)

About three hours later police say they uncovered her alleged sinister crimes.

Watching from Queensland, her distraught family were shocked to learn of the allegations against Chesser.

The former Beauty and the Geek contestant allegedly set fire to partner Julian Story’s remains inside their Port Lincoln, South Australia, unit two days after she allegedly killed him and dismembered his body.

Her sister said in the months before she had concerns for Chesser’s mental health.

“It’s my sister but that’s not who she is or the Tamika we know. That’s not the Tamika anyone knows,” she said.

Chilling new vision has emerged of what police claim to be former reality TV star Tamika Chesser shortly before she allegedly set fire to her partner’s remains. (Nine)

“It just started getting worse you know and she started being in and out of mental health.

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“She seemed, like I don’t know, I guess OK. She didn’t mention anything and she just told everyone she loves them.”

Chesser remains in police custody at a mental health facility in Adelaide.

Her family is restricted from talking with her.

“She’s still unresponsive at the moment,” her sister said.

Police still haven’t been able to formally interview the 34-year-old as they continue their search for Julian’s missing remains in Port Lincoln.

The former Beauty and the Geek contestant allegedly set fire to partner Julian Story’s remains inside their Port Lincoln, South Australia, unit two days after she allegedly killed him and dismembered his body. (Nine)

Story’s body was found without his head after police responded to a small fire in the yard of the house about 3.35pm on June 19.

Chesser, 34, has been charged with murder.

Today police divers sifted through the shallows along the foreshore in a grim search for Julian’s head.

Australian reality TV star Tamika Chesser allegedly murdered her boyfriend of five years and then dismembered the body. Image: Screenshot Instagram

A 34-year-old Australian woman, known from the TV show “Beauty & The Nerd”, is alleged to have murdered and dismembered her boyfriend. Because the man’s head has not yet been found, the police are now asking for help.

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Because the head of the murdered woman has not yet been found, the police have now appealed to the public for information.

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Following the murder of a man almost two weeks ago in the South Australian city of Port Lincoln, police are appealing for the public’s help in finding the victim’s head.

The murdered person is believed to be the partner of reality TV star Tamika Chesser. The 34-year-old is a former participant in the Australian edition of the TV show “Beauty & The Nerd”.

Police believe that Chesser killed her boyfriend around midnight on June 17. She was therefore arrested ten days ago and is to be charged with the murder of her boyfriend, who was five years older than her.

“It was a shocking sight for the police”

The dismembered body of the man was discovered in an apartment after a neighbor reported the outbreak of a fire to the fire department.

“It was a harrowing sight for police and rescue workers,” the statement from the local police said. The head of the body had been severed – and has not yet been found by the authorities despite an intensive search.

“The recovery of the head is important,” said police director Darren Fielke during a press conference. “We want to hand him over to his family so they can bury their son.”

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