00:00all that's left behind of a croaker island woman remembered by family members as lovely kind and
00:10humble it'd be devastating to the family the 52 year old referred to by her surname as miss
00:17chainsaw for cultural reasons was found dead in casuarina coastal reserve late at night on
00:23september 26. police did not initially declare her death suspicious and reclassified it five days
00:30later when a post-mortem allegedly found she was suffering internal injuries her 56 year old
00:37partner marcellus majalba was charged with murder on october 3. there's been so many losses lately
00:44it's like the norm you know for families and it shouldn't be a source close to the investigation
00:50told the abc attending police initially believed miss chainsaw was intoxicated and had suffered a
00:57medical episode and didn't deem it suspicious nt police says the death was investigated immediately
01:04saying in a statement that on the night of miss chainsaw's death no evidence was found to support
01:10the death being suspicious pending post-mortem results they allege the post-mortem showed serious
01:16internal injuries that were not observable to investigating detectives the alleged murder
01:22happened just a stone's throw from this popular walking track in darwin's northern suburbs it was
01:27the second alleged family and domestic violence related death in as many weeks a 31 year old woman
01:34was allegedly killed by her partner in the palmerston suburb of driver on september 16. frontline workers
01:41say alleged incidents of domestic violence are increasing i've never seen it this bad actually
01:47the nt government says a new roadmap to try to help tackle the territory's rates of family violence
01:53is currently being finalized miss chainsaw's alleged killer will face darwin local court next month
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