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Victim: High-profile interior designer Stuart Rattle. Photo: 7News Library

Michael O'Neill strangled his boyfriend Stuart Rattle with a dog leash, then brewed him a cup of tea and talked to the renowned interior designer's lifeless body as if nothing had happened.

O'Neill continued his life as normal for five days while Mr Rattle lay dead in their Melbourne home, spending the weekend at their country retreat, dining with friends and attending business engagements.

He even set the table for two, poured glasses of wine for his partner of 16 years and bought his favourite cake.

O'Neill maintained the charade before setting fire to the South Yarra apartment on December 9 last year to try to conceal his crime.

O'Neill, 48, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to the murder and arson.

He bludgeoned Mr Rattle with a saucepan as he lay in their bed, then strangled him with a dog leash, documents tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates Court show.

O'Neill then made his dead partner a cup of tea, according to a transcript of his police interview.

"We have dogs and they have leads, you know those sort of nylon leads, and I used one of those to strangle him. Why, I'm not quite sure," O'Neill told police.

"I don't know why I did it. I love Stuart so much - he's so good to me.

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Published: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 8:25 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 8:25 p.m.

A two-bedroom home on Candlewick Street sat empty for years after the owner died and then Burger arrived in July, neighbor Robert Hall said. I knew she didnt belong there, Hall said.

The Volusia County Sheriffs Office arrested Burger, 68, on charges including fraud and forgery on July 17.

Officials in Deltona, where thousands of homes have fallen into foreclosure, have found at least four instances where its water department started service for suspected squatters. The City Commission recently approved a rental verification ordinance designed, in part, to prevent that.

Some Volusia property managers say squatting has become an ongoing problem, and while they are generally loathe to see more regulations on landlords, they say a rental verification process, like the one in Deltona, is needed.

So far this year, Burger showed up in two separate sheriffs reports five months apart.

Investigators said two movers complained in February about Burger after they carried all of her belongings from a home on Yellowbird Avenue into a U-Haul, drove it to another home and then were asked to break into the home for her.

The movers refused, then asked to be paid.

Burger led them around town, paused at one intersection, then whipped a u-turn and drove at a high rate of speed before eventually telling the movers by phone she wouldnt be paying them, the report states.

Investigators discovered she had filed for adverse possession a legal maneuver whereby squatters can try to take possession of unclaimed property after seven years on the Yellowbird Avenue home. They told her she was under criminal investigation for staying in the home and removing items from it that likely did not belong to her, a sheriffs report states.

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