chef who brutally murdered his Indonesian transsexual prostitute wife was worried she would expose his double life as a gigolo, an inquest heard.
Marcus Volke is believed to have killed Mayang Prasetyo, 27, in their upmarket Brisbane flat in October 2014 in a domestic violence incident.
The 27-year-old then chopped her into pieces before boiling them on his electric stove to get rid of the evidence.
The inquest in Brisbane heard their relationship was volatile and in one of their frequent fights Ms Prasetyo threatened to expose him as a sex worker to his family if he left her, according to the Courier Mail.
They married so the pre-op transsexual could get an Australian visa and in return she helped pay off his $9,000 credit card debt with her escort earnings.
Counsel assisting the coroner Emily Cooper said the couple had a series of fights on the night of October 2, two days before her body was found and Volke killed himself while hiding from police in a skip.
Neighbours woke up to the sound of Ms Prasetyo screaming and the fight lasted about 30 to 40 minutes.
'Mr Volke, was seen to be sitting on the couch inside the unit just staring straight ahead, not reacting at all to the screaming,' she told the court.
'Ms Prasetyo was heard to say things like "f**k you", and was calling Volke stupid. Ms Prasetyo was also saying things like "I can’t believe you".'
The fight kicked off again at about 1.30am on October 3, and was the last time the victim was known to be alive.
Police believed Ms Prasetyo was killed at some point that morning, likely during the fight, and the smell of her decomposing body began hours later.
Volke drove to the Newstead Woolworths at 6pm where he bought gloves, bleach, a scrubbing brush, garbage bags, wipes, and a laundry soak tub.
Then he got a taxi to Royal Brisbane Hospital to treat a cut on his hand he told the driver was from cutting onions.
However, he told hospital staff the injury was from him taking a knife out of his girlfriend's hands during a fight.
At 12.15pm on October 4 he bought a cleaver from Big W, which he used to dismember Ms Prasetyo's body and stuff it the garbage bags.
Later that day while trying to cook her body to get rid of the evidence the huge pot boiled over and short-circuited his apartment's power.
'G'day, is this a 24 hour electrician?' he casually asked Brad Coyne, forced to call for help getting the power back on to complete his sick plot.
'Yeah I got a bit of a problem. Um, I was cooking on my stove, it's an electric stove and the stock pot boiled over, dripped down and got into the oven and basically made this big bang and then all the power turned off.
'Does it sound like something you'd be able to fix today?'
A few hours later Mr Coyne arrived at the Teneriffe flat and was confronted by a putrid smell, which the killer tried to explain away.
'You'll have to mind the smell, I'm cooking pig's broth,' Volke said.
The electrician was led around the house, where he saw garbage bags, bottles of chemicals and rubber gloves.
'We went into the bathroom which had laundry in it and there was a cupboard that had the washing machine in it - which I didn't know at the time had bits of his wife's body in it, like her head and arms,' he told the Scottish Daily Record at the time.
Mr Coyne got the power back on and tested the stove - not knowing Ms Prasetyo's feet were sitting half-cooked in the massive pot.
Still feeling something was off, he talked to the building manager on the way out - who immediately called police for a welfare check.
Constable Liam McWhinney and his partner Senior Constable Bryan Reid arrived at the flat and initially found Volke cooperative and were not suspicious.
But when they asked if they could search the apartment, Volke told them he needed to secure his dogs, locked the door and fled.
Constable McWhinney told the inquest in Brisbane on Monday the pair gave chase but their quarry eluded them and they returned to the unit to search it.
That was when they found the pot with Ms Prasetyo's feet simmering, and in disbelief thought it was a joke.
'Originally I thought it was some sort of sick prank… Halloween or something — when I put two and two together, I realised it wasn't a prank,' Constable McWhinney told the inquest on Monday.
'There was a pool of blood at the base of the fridge.'
They then found some of Ms Prasetyo's remains in a black garbage bag left in the couple's washing machine.
Meanwhile, Volke jumped over his balcony fence into a laneway behind his building, then over another fence.
Police and the dog squad searched the surrounding streets and found Volke in an industrial bin a short time later.
The court heard at least one of the officers drew his firearm, and Volke took his own life.
Senior Sergeant Sean McKay told the court on Tuesday he arrived as police were tipping the bin over to retrieve Volke, who had a fatal injury to his neck and injuries to his wrists.
He said officers carried out CPR but 'it was pretty apparent that he was deceased and it wasn't going to help'.
The crime scene took four days to clean up, and included disturbing items like rubber gloves, bleach, and 'squelching' carpet, along with a vomit-inducing smell.
The inquest was, in part, to determine what role police had in Volke's death, and whether they complied with Queensland Police policy and procedur
On the last day of the inquest, Ms Cooper said evidence was clear Volke killed her before slashing his own throat in an industrial bin while evading police.
She said the coroner would be satisfied Volke's death was unavoidable and the actions of attending police were 'authorised, justified and supported' by law.
'It's clear that there was no misconduct displayed by any of the officers involved,' she said.
'There was nothing further that they could have done at the time.'
On Monday the inquest also heard from Detective Sergeant Joshua Walsh that Volke saw a doctor for anxiety, depression and a sleep disorder two weeks before the murder-suicide.
Police also obtained medical records showing that he had sought treatment at Victoria's Ballarat Hospital when he was 16 years old.
Coroner Terry Ryan will hand down his findings on Friday.
-Dailymail
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