{"id":584768,"date":"2026-04-04T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584768\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:14:08","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-missing-womans-body-was-discovered-in-little-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584768\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after missing woman&#8217;s body was discovered in Little River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 67-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman&#8217;s body was discovered south-west of Melbourne on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Victoria Police said the woman, aged 53, was reported missing on Thursday before an investigation was carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Enquiries by local police and detectives confirmed the Dandenong woman had not contacted family as expected and the circumstances were deemed suspicious,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">On Saturday afternoon, detectives from the Missing Persons Squad found the woman&#8217;s body in the vicinity of Little River Road and the Princes Freeway in Little River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the body had not been formally identified but is believed to be the missing woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">As part of investigations, the man from Patterson Lakes was arrested on Friday while attempting to board an international flight at Melbourne Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He has been remanded in custody and is expected to appear before a bail and remand court on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 67-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman&#8217;s body was discovered south-west of Melbourne on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,5315,286286,2968,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-584768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-investigation","11":"tag-missing-persons-squad","12":"tag-murder","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584768","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=584768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}