Tracey Ann O'Brien Maw dead Tracey Ann O'Brien Maw killed in Fiji. Her partly decomposed body has been discovered in bushes beside a road by a local farmer. IN the months before she was brutally killed in Fiji, Australian woman Tracey Ann O'Brien Maw told friends she felt "hurt, used, ugly and embarrassed" after losing tens-of-thousands of dollars to her Fijian lover. Ms O'Brien Maw told friends in a closed Facebook group of the pain she'd endured when her relationship with a Fijian man soured and of how she felt used by him. She suspected he was still in a relationship with his wife. Her badly decomposed body was found by a farmer on Monday. Police believe she was bashed to death and revealed to news.com.au earlier today they had identified a suspect who was known to Ms O'Brien Maw. The suspect knew police wanted to speak to him but was "on the run," a source close to the investigation said. A spokeswoman for Fiji police tonight confirmed they were aware of the messages. A friend of the victim has come forward and we have taken her statement. She has provided information that the victim was unhappy about a number of things. The contents of the numerous emails were being examined by detectives, who are treating her death as a murder. The spokeswoman refused to comment further. The messages, provided to news.com.au by a member of the Facebook group detail how she left her home in Shepparton, Victoria, earlier this year to go to Fiji to be with her partner of four-and-half-years. Tracey Ann O'Brien Maw's badly decomposed body was discovered in bushes beside a road by a local farmer. In August she realised the relationship was over. "Don't fall in love cause you will only lose EVERYTHING!" she wrote, before later revealing she'd lost $42,000 and her house. The online group is mainly women in relationships with Fijian men and Ms O'Brien Maw told them of how she was unsure what her partner was doing when she wasn't there. .."when you come home to Aussie you really DONT know what they do when your not there. sad hey when we give them honesty and they just laugh at us in there lingo, even while we sit with then! How do we know what they saying? She claimed she was sending money to him every two weeks for food and suspected he was spending it on his wife. She said to one friend: " ... yes there are true relationships there I just didn't find the right one but don't want one now. I just have to work out what my heart n head says. I don't know how to now, I feel ugly, used, hurt, embarrased, stupid etc. And then: "It must be a tears day for me cause I can't stop the tears from falling." Ms O'Brien Maw purportedly told the group of how lonely she felt when she was home in Australia. Tracey Ann O'Brien Maw is believed to have been badly bashed. Her body was discovered on Monday. I feel the same when I come home to ... so LONELY. I lost my family n friends cause they could see what was happening ... She said she felt naive and went onto the Facebook page because she had no one else to speak to. It's really bad for someone to do extortion to innocent kind hearted people ... They take advantage of our kindness. It has been reported that Ms O'Brien Maw was in Fiji to reconcile with a man and that she had been staying with him. She was last seen on Thursday night at a party in Sigatoka close to where her body was found by a shocked farmer walking his dog. Farmer Etuate Senikau, 47, was on his way to a rugby match at Nasama Village, on the island of Viti Levu, when he made the gruesome discovery. It was the smell that first got his attention. DO YOU KNOW MORE? email andrew.koubaridis@news.com.au "I was on my way to a shop at Nasama Village with my dog when suddenly my dog ran off into the bush," he told Fiji Sun website. He was terrified when he then saw the feet of the decomposed body sticking out from the bushes. There was also a terrible smell. Mr Senikau said the body was covered with grass and could not be identified because the face was badly damaged. Fiji police Commissioner Ben Groenewald has confirmed Ms O'Brien-Maw's brother, Rodney Maw, identified her body on Tuesday. It's believed Ms Maw was beaten so badly her brother could only identify her body by a distinctive tattoo. Tracey Ann O'Brien Maw had told friends of the despair she felt after her relationship with a Fijian man ended. Commissioner Groenewald promised the Maw family a thorough investigation. He said Ms O'Brien Maw's body had to be cremated "due to the extreme stage of putrefaction of the victim's body." However that has alarmed her family in Australia who are reportedly worried that happened too quickly and without proper investigation.