The television actress whose body was found with a convicted rapist at a halfway house in New Zealand had a chilling premonition about her death.
The bodies of Tania Ellwood, 39, and her ex-boyfriend Timothy Hamilton, 36, were discovered at Dryden Lodge, a sprawling home for vagrants and Auckland's most vulnerable, on March 6, 2018.
Mystery surrounds exactly why Ms Ellwood and Hamilton were together in the tiny unit on the basement level of the four-storey estate.
Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marhsall was unable to determine what killed Ms Ellwood, but found she died several days before Hamilton.
She once told her mother she believed Hamilton was going to kill her.
The last time she spoke to her boyfriend Ira Heyder she had a chilling foreshadowing of her eventual death.
'So you're going to leave me here to get murdered?' she asked him as he left on a work trip.
The bodies of Ms Ellwood (left) and Timothy Hamilton (right) were found together inside a halfway house in Grey Lynn, in Auckland's inner suburbs. Police are not investigating homicide
The bodies of Ms Ellwood and Mr Hamilton were found at Dryden Lodge (pictured), in Auckland's inner suburb of Grey Lynn, in early March 2018
The Coroner could not identify what caused Ellwood's death because her body was too decomposed when it was found.
At the time her body was found, police said Ms Ellwood's death was 'unexplained' and were not treating the incident as a homicide.
Mr Heyder said he had 'little confidence in the police investigation from the outset', and that someone told him Hamilton was 'obsessed' with Ms Ellwood and was not happy that she was with someone else.
'She saw him at the WINZ (welfare) office [on] Dominion Road on the Monday before she vanished, and commented how sick he looked - being a loving person there is every possibility she contacted him out of pity,' he told Stuff.
'When have the New Zealand police ever got something 100 per cent correct? Until I am able to view the evidence, anything could have happened to Tania, anywhere and by anyone.'
Mr Heyder said Ms Ellwood had suffered from addiction problems in the past, and her doctor had diagnosed her with depression and anxiety and she sometimes had psychotic thoughts. Her clinical notes showed she had a risk of suicide.
She met Hamilton while they were in emergency care together but her mother did not approve of him, the Coroner's report stated.
Hamilton, a sickness beneficiary, had previously been imprisoned for five years after strangling a woman until she was unconscious and raping her in 2007.
He was sleeping under bushes in the street before checking into Dryden Lodge two days before he met Ms Ellwood on the day she is believed to have died.
Ms Ellwood had told her doctor in February 2018 that she planned to leave Mr Heyder because he was controlling and had thrown away her medication.
Ms Ellwood was found to have died on February 28, 2018, the day she went missing. Hamilton was found to have died five days later on March 5.
On the day she disappeared, Ms Heyder was dropped at a bank in Newmarket in the morning.
She withdrew $440 from the bank and went to a hair appointment at a salon. She was seen by her hairdresser at a cafe drinking wine about 9.30am.
The hairdresser said Ms Ellwood was drunk and told her she was going to meet her 'ex' - Hamilton.
Ms Ellwood then took a bus to Mercury Lane in the city and was seen playing pokies at a bar.
Hamilton then arrived at the bar with another man. He had an argument with Ms Ellwood before she left the area.
