Thankyou bearbear for the welcome. To answer your questions:
Yes there is a general fear but unfortunately in this age of 24/7 social media, people quickly move onto the next thing. I myself am shocked that there is no public police advice or warnings to women.
Toyah has an aunt living up this way, so I think more a feeling up here of wanting to protect the quite well-known lady from vicious gossip. I know for a fact that Toyah has previously visited shops in my town.
There is a particularly awful rumour going around about the state of Toyah's body. I won't repeat it here because I would not want to cause her family any more pain, and I don't know if it is true. Having said that, the rumour would fit with a drug-crazed killing. Ice is a big problem around the whole area. Itinerants are also a big problem around Cairns.
Wangetti Beach is also a location for drug fuelled raves according to locals who have commented on facebook. If you trawl the Cairns Post fb page, some of the locals' comments on articles about Toyah are very interesting, there are little snippets of information, such as Wangetti being a well known place for "odd bods" as the media have described them.
In regard to the journalists, they are ridiculous. They simply comb social media for photos and then try to put words to the photos without any context in regard to time. The media made a big deal of her posting about women walking alone, making out it was days before her murder when in fact it was 4 months previously. They seem to have corrected their blatant headline grabbing mistakes now though.
At one point, the photo of Toyah in her bikini on the beach was alluded to as being the day of her murder, I can't find a link now though.
Apparently, the police do not know if she changed her clothing after visiting the markets which suggests she was completely naked.
I don't know if the killer/s returned to her body but it certainly is possible. If the police can't find her clothing, phone, purse or car keys the perpetrator may have returned to the scene later. This is obviously why the police divers from Brisbane were brought up, to try and locate these items.
From 2pm Sunday until about 7am Monday when she was found by her father (not stepfather), the killer had plenty of time to return to the scene, perhaps multiple times. I find it interesting her mother was with her father when the dog and then Toyah were found. It makes me think they were immediately extremely concerned about Toyah and her potential involvement with someone known to them. As breaking news suggested earlier maybe a new boyfriend on the scene or something like that?
I find the whole timeline very confusing too in regard to the actual time she was reported missing. It makes sense her family relised in the early morning she was missing and they immediately went to Wangetti to look for her. If it was realised she was missing the night before at 11pm, why didn't they go up there then? They would have seen her car straight away. Perhaps they rang around the night before and were told Toyah was fine, and it wasn't until the morning they realised she wasn't. So many details lacking here from police which makes me think they have a suspect.
