Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains the name and image of a person who has died.<\/p>\n
Police have arrested a 37-year-old man and charged him with the murder of a woman in Adelaide’s parklands.<\/p>\n
Michelle Sumner was found unresponsive at Edwards Park, in the southern parklands, on January 20 this year.<\/p>\n
Police said Ms Sumner’s cause of death was “initially unclear” but that a forensic examination later determined she had died from an assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Michelle Sumner was found unresponsive in Adelaide’s southern parklands in January 2025. (Supplied: SA Police)<\/p>\n
“The matter was declared a major crime and detectives have since worked extensively to establish the circumstances surrounding Michelle’s death,” SA Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
They said the charged man and Ms Sumner were known to each other.<\/p>\n
Detective Acting Superintendent Andrew Macrae said the arrest “marks a significant step forward in what has been a long and complex investigation”.<\/p>\n
“We hope today’s development offers Michelle’s family some measure of comfort,” he said.<\/p>\n
The accused man, of no fixed address, was refused bail and is expected to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police have urged anyone with information about Ms Sumner’s death to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains the name and image of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[192616,64,63,115009,192615,171214,192617,2968,44,192613,10174,192614],"class_list":{"0":"post-349574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-andrew-macrae","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-detective","12":"tag-edwards-park","13":"tag-major-crime","14":"tag-michelle-sumner","15":"tag-murder","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-parklands","18":"tag-sa-police","19":"tag-unresponsive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}