Detectives hope to speak to the estranged husband of Karen Gilliland, who was stabbed to death at her home in central Queensland on Tuesday.
Karen Gilliland, 42, was killed at her home in the Rockhampton suburb of The Range in a vicious attack witnessed by two of her three children.
Neighbours and emergency workers did all they could to save her but she died at the scene with wounds to her neck and stomach.
Her estranged husband, 45-year-old Nigel Gilliland, fled the scene and was taken into custody two hours later after a large-scale search involving the dog squad.
Mr Gilliland, who did not live at The Range house, was taken to hospital in a serious condition, with a stab wound to his arm, and underwent surgery yesterday.
Police said he is under police guard and hospital staff will advise them on when he can be questioned.
Charges are expected to be laid in the coming days.
"It's not easy we've been police officers for a number of years but this is one of the worst scenes we've seen," Acting Detective Inspector Luke Peachey said.
"It an absolute tragic event three children have lost their mother, a mother and father have lost their daughter."
The children are now with their maternal grandfather.
One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said she was hanging out the washing when she heard screaming.
She said she thought the sound was children playing, but then the tone changed.
"A lot of young children in the street and around that time of the evening it's not unusual to hear those noises and as horrific as it sounds, it actually sounded like people were almost playing, that level of screaming and then I guess as neighbours we started to realise that the tone had taken on more of a hysteria and then it stopped," she said.
Some of Ms Gilliland's friends have changed their profile pictures on Facebook to a white ribbon.
"You are loved, you are missed and you will be remembered always," Danielle Price wrote in a tribute to Ms Gilliland.
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