Police have charged a man with the murder of Queensland mother-of-two Crystal Beale after a months-long investigation.

Ms Beale's body was found in the Brisbane River by a member of the public in the early hours of February 22.

Police allege that the night before, Ms Beale left a family dinner at Sunnybank at about 8:30pm with a 49-year-old West End man who was known to her.

Her last alleged sighting was an hour later by the same man when she left the car they had been travelling in at Ryan Street in West End.

Detectives from the Dutton Park Criminal Investigation Branch and Homicide Investigation Unit have spent the last seven months trying to piece together what happened on the evening of February 21, as well as in the lead-up to that night.

This included combing through over 1,000

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