By Brendan Rees
Police are investigating after a woman’s body was discovered dead in Cranbourne East last Friday afternoon, 23 March.
Police spokeswoman Belinda Batty said the body was found at an address in Collison Road at about 2pm.
The exact cause of death is yet to be determined and no further information was known.
Neighbours expressed their shock over the incident, saying the residents at the property usually kept to themselves.
One neighbour, who wished remain anonymous, said a couple who lived at the property where the body was found had separated about two to three months ago.
“He’s not home very often. Since they’ve split up, whenever he does seem to come back, doesn’t seem to be till late. He’s not there for very long and he disappears again,” he said.
“Something’s fishy there because there’s no way they’re going to find a dead woman in the house and him not know something about it.”
He said the man was aged in his 30s and worked as a truck driver.
He had spoken to the man a couple of times and believed he was an ice user. “Apparently had a couple of drug dealers coming around from what he was saying.”
He said the couple also had a baby but added: “Whenever he wasn’t there, you never saw her (mother).
“It was like she couldn’t leave the house. You never saw her outside with the child or anything. Even when he was home, you never saw her outside.”
“Basically he hasn’t been staying at the house. He said he was thinking about moving out, selling the place and moving back to his mum.”
“He’s another crack head. He seems nice enough but I don’t like getting too friendly with people who are involved in that.”
He said some of his mates looked like “outright little gutter lickers.”
A resident who also wished to remain anonymous said she had not seen anyone at the property for almost two months.
“I don’t know that family at all. The only information I know is that the couple were splitting up.”
She said she never experienced any problems with the residents at the house.
“We’ve heard nothing. The children weren’t home as far as I know. Could have been a bitter divorce…there was a rumour of suicide.”
“Two (children live at the address) from what I have read online. We were concerned but without knowing how she died, many thoughts run through your mind,” she said.
“We just want to know if we have a murderer on the loose or not.”
Another resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said he came home at about 6pm to find up to 10 police cars at the front of the house. “I don’t know what’s going on. It could be a domestic for all I know.”
