{"id":433971,"date":"2026-01-24T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:36:10","slug":"fourth-person-charged-over-alleged-murder-torture-of-brisbane-man-andrew-burow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433971\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth person charged over alleged murder, torture of Brisbane man Andrew Burow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland police have charged a fourth man in relation to the torture and murder of Brisbane father Andrew Burow.<\/p>\n

Mr Burow, a 56-year-old cybersecurity manager, was reported missing on August 20 last year, four days after he was last seen at his Brisbane unit.<\/p>\n

In September, human remains discovered in a shallow grave more than 200 kilometres west of Brisbane were confirmed to be those of Mr Burow.<\/p>\n

Three men \u2014 a 38-year-old from Sippy Downs, a 26-year-old from North Lakes and a 57-year-old from Buderim \u2014 faced court in October charged with murder, kidnapping, torture, extortion and misconduct with a corpse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Smiling<\/p>\n

Friends of Andrew Burow described him as a gentle person and a mentor. (Supplied: Padma Higgins)<\/p>\n

On Friday, investigators charged a 44-year-old Lake Macdonald man with one count each of torture, deprivation of liberty and extortion.<\/p>\n

Police have previously alleged the attack on Mr Burow was targeted and that the 26-year-old North Lakes man was known to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Burows’ disappearance launched what police said was a “complex investigation” that eventually involved eight crime scenes across south-east Queensland.<\/p>\n

Officers allegedly found a phone, zip ties, alcohol wipes and the names and addresses of Mr Burow’s parents on a piece of paper at a property in Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

\"Brown<\/p>\n

Police have alleged Andrew Burow was taken from his Kelvin Grove home in August last year.<\/p>\n

It is alleged that photographic evidence of Mr Burow, “severely beaten”, was also found.<\/p>\n

The mysterious disappearance of Andrew Burow<\/a><\/p>\n

When Andrew Burow went missing from his Brisbane unit, it sparked an investigation full of twists and turns.<\/p>\n

Police have alleged Mr Burow was taken via car from Kelvin Grove in Brisbane’s inner north to multiple locations across the south-east over a four-day period between August 21 and August 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is also alleged he was murdered and his remains left beside a road at Maidenwell, in the South Burnett region, around August 26.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old Lake Macdonald man will appear before the Brisbane Magistrates Court on February 5.<\/p>\n

Police have urged anyone with relevant information that they have not yet reported to contact investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland police have charged a fourth man in relation to the torture and murder of Brisbane father Andrew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[73060,64,63,73061,651,2025,73059,81677,16872,2968,44,94,701,11942,27359],"class_list":["post-433971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-andrew-burow","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bli-bli","tag-brisbane","tag-charges","tag-kelvin-grove","tag-maidenwell","tag-missing-person","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-sunshine-coast","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433971","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=433971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}