Family law barrister Alice Rose McShera was tragically found dead in a hotel room in Australia on Monday, October 30, and Cameron John Pearson, 42, is charged with her death.
34-year-old Alice Rose McShera, a respected lawyer at the Murray Chambers law firm in Perth, was found dead at a 5-star Perth hotel.
Ms McShera allegedly suffered head injuries consistent with a ‘blunt instrument’.
Shortly after her body was found a man believed to be her boyfriend named Cameron John Pearson was charged with her murder.
The lawyer reportedly shared a chilling final social media post that showed she was “loving life” before she was brutally murdered in her hotel room.
Here’s everything we know about the attorney, what actually happened to her, and where her killer is now.
Who was Alice Rose McShera?
Alice Rose McShera (born between 1988 and 1989) was an attorney from Australia.
She worked out of Murray Chambers in Perth’s CBD as a family law specialist.
She had more than 10 years experience as an advocate and barrister and was a member of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Western Australia and the Law Society of Western Australia.
She has also appeared in the WA Supreme Court of and Magistrates Court and previously worked as an associate to a WA Family Court judge.
As per her LinkedIn page, she graduated with a master’s degree in law from the Australian National University in 2015.
McShera was diagnosed with bipolar psychological disorder in 2021 after disappearing for 12 hours while on holiday, 9News reported.
The barrister reportedly died as a result of homicide in October 2023.
She was 34 years old at the time of her death.
According to Australian news outlets, McShera’s former employer Murray Chambers described her as a “much loved colleague and friend”.
They said in a statement: “Alice was an experienced and very capable advocate who has been an integral part of the Murray Chambers family. The profession will be the poorer for her loss. We feel keenly for Alice’s family and friends at this time.”
Another of McShera’s former employers, Keegan Family Lawyers, also paid tribute to her following her death.
On its Facebook page, the company posted: “Alice – you were a strong woman, a powerful woman, an amazing barrister and lawyer. You fought for those who couldn’t fight for themselves. You were a friend, a colleague, and someone to aspire to”.
The statement continued: “I cannot believe you have been taken from us. I am so sorry your life has been cut short…Our community will mourn your loss. You will be so missed”.
Her father said she was a ‘beautiful, much-loved girl who will be deeply missed’.
What happened to Alice Rose McShera?
McShera was found dead in a room at a Perth Crown Towers hotel on the morning of Monday, October 30.
Police have said she was found with head injuries that they believe were caused by a blunt instrument.
A man named Cameron John Pearson, 42 was found in the same hotel room as McShera with “serious, self-inflicted injuries”.
Pearson has since appeared in a Perth court charged with McShera’s murder.
Security staff checked on the hotel room where McShera was found after receiving a call from a family member.
Inspector Geoff DeSanges told reporters outside court on October 31: “A family member who was seeking to get hold of one of the people in that room had spoken to Crown Towers. We’re still to identify the full circumstances of the relationship, and what brought about the events of yesterday”.
He added: “There appears to have been a passage of time between the woman being injured and police being called to the hotel”.
The night before her body was found, McShera posted a final social media post where she documented her stay at the Crown Towers hotel.
She uploaded a photo to her Facebook page of a picture of Dom Perignon champagne and told her friends on the social media site that she was “spending the night before [her] next surgery at Crown Towns, drinking Dom, watching old DVDs and loving life”.
In the post, she thanked her “bestie” for the hotel stay.
Though she didn’t name who she was talking about she did refer to the person as “Lawyer of the Year”.
Where is Cameron John Pearson now?
Cameron John Pearson, 42, who was found with self-inflicted injuries in the same hotel room where Ms McShera’s body was also found, faces court over alleged murder of lawyer Alice McShera in Crown Towers hotel room.
Mr Pearson made a brief appearance in the Perth Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
When asked by the magistrate whether he understood the charge of murder against him, the accused murderer told the court he did not understand the murder charge against him, he then shook his head, according to Australia’s ABC News.
The matter was adjourned, with Mr Pearson next due to appear in the Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on November 29.
Ms McShera was Cameron John Pearson’s girlfriend. The duo reportedly met after she took him on as a client through her work as a family barrister at a boutique law firm. They struck up a relationship in January, 9News reported.