MYSTERY DEATH: Police at the Alistair Court, Macleay Island crime scene. Pictures: Liam Kidston Source: The Courier-Mail
Source: The Courier-Mail
THEY watch out for their neighbours and look after their own - but the tight-knit community of Macleay Island could be home to a murderer.
Locals mourning the death of grandmother Liselotte Watson fear the killer could be living among them. And now police have asked them to help solve the crime.
Officers will spend the weekend canvassing all four southern Moreton Bay islands as the mystery surrounding the murder of the grandmother deepens.
The tight-knit island community remains in shock over the death of the 85-year-old, who police say met a "violent" end. Her body was discovered on Tuesday afternoon after she missed an appointment with a friend, who called police to check on her.
Mrs Watson's death - the island's first murder - has rattled a community more used to break-ins and petty crime.
Investigators will this weekend speak to people on Russell, Karragarra and Lamb islands, conscious that people regularly move between them using the ferry service.
They have also called on people with holiday homes on Macleay Island to check their properties.
"With a homicide investigation, time is of the essence," Detective Superintendent Geoff Sheldon said.
Police would again be handing out flyers featuring a picture of Mrs Watson.
"Over the weekend we'll be there again with the pamphlets, saying: 'Do you know anything about this? This is Mrs Watson's face - the same as your grandmother and mine,' " Det Supt Sheldon said. "This is the death of an 85-year-old woman. There's nothing more tragic than this.
"We just need to work hard and get together as a community and get as much information as we can to solve this matter."
Meanwhile, locals say they have been hit by a spate of recent break-ins - mostly involving businesses - and worry that Mrs Watson's death could have been a robbery gone wrong.
"People are worried about whether or not there is an element here that hasn't been here before," one local said.
He said restaurants, the pub, the chemist, the tip office and the golf course had all been hit.
Sebastian Jablonski, who owns The Naked Fisherman, said his restaurant had been broken into five times since he and his partner moved there earlier this year.
"I talk to customers and it's all about who got broken into last night," he said. "Some people think what happened to Mrs Watson was a robbery gone wrong. There are people who knew she had a lot of money."
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