Dead woman identified, husband in custody after suspicious house fire​on April 14, 2025 at 11:32 pm

A 45-year-old man is being questioned by police after his wife’s body was found at the scene of a suspicious house fire west of Brisbane on Tuesday morning.

Emergency services were called to a home on Strack Road in Geham, north of Toowoomba, about 2.50am on Tuesday and arrived to find it “fully engulfed” in flames.

Fire crews had the blaze under control by 4am. After initial searches of the scene, police and fire investigators found the body of a woman believed to be that of mother Louise Hunt, who remains unaccounted for.

Police declared a crime scene around the area, and homicide detectives arrived from Brisbane later on Tuesday to help local officers.

Police Superintendent George Marchesini confirmed the home’s residents included two young children, who were “safe, well and accounted for”.

On Tuesday afternoon, police located 45-year-old Cameron Hunt almost 200 kilometres away in Redcliffe. He was being held in custody while helping officers with their inquiries. No charges had been laid as of Tuesday evening.

Police were still investigating the cause of the blaze on Tuesday afternoon.

“These sorts of incidents will always be treated as suspicious, and crime scenes declared, until we can prove otherwise,” Marchesini said.