This article contains references to rape.
Police should be stationed in the South Australian outback town of Fregon where outback nurse Gayle Woodford was brutally raped and murdered, a coroner has recommended.
SA Deputy Coroner Anthony Schapel on Thursday handed down his findings into the death of Ms Woodford in 2016, declaring it "perverse" that a town of such lawlessness had no permanent police presence.
The 56 year old's body was found buried in a crude grave three days after she went missing from her Fregon home.
It's believed Davey, who had a significant history of violent and sexual offending, tricked Ms Woodford into opening a security cage around her home and overpowered her as she walked to her ambulance.