Killed, cut up and cooked

A strange and gruesome death in Australia in which a man is believed to have killed, then cut up, and maybe even cooked his girlfriend.

Local media say the body parts of a 24 year old transgender woman from Indonesia were discovered inside the apartment of Marcus Volke. Some of the body parts were in a pot on the stove.

Neighbours had complained of a foul smell coming from the apartment. When police investigated, Volke fled the scene.

He was later discovered, dead inside an industrial garbage container from an apparent suicide.

The whole thing left friends and neighbours shocked.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) CAFE WORKER ABIGAIL PIRIE, SAYING:

"Pretty chilled out, quiet. He didn't seem psycho."

(SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE NEIGHBOUR, SAYING:

"She just seemed like a regular sort of like a mid-twenties kind of girl, like nothing out of the ordinary or anything."

(SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED FRIEND OF MARCUS VOLKE, SAYING: