{"id":616076,"date":"2026-04-19T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:30:10","slug":"windale-woman-found-dead-man-charged-with-alleged-murder-newcastle-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616076\/","title":{"rendered":"Windale: Woman found dead; man charged with alleged murder | Newcastle Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam began his Newcastle Herald career as a night police reporter in 2011. <br \/>He is an experienced court reporter who has won two national court reporting awards, including the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Court Reporting for his coverage of the Hunter&#8217;s worst serial rapist. <br \/>Before working at the Herald, Sam was a sports journalist with the Maitland Mercury where he won awards for his coverage of the Newcastle Rugby League salary cap scandal. <br \/>Sam is a Novocastrian born-and-bred.<\/p>\n<p>Sam began his Newcastle Herald career as a night police reporter in 2011. <br \/>He is an experienced court reporter who has won two national court reporting awards, including the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Court Reporting for his coverage of the Hunter&#8217;s worst serial rapist. <br \/>Before working at the Herald, Sam was a sports journalist with the Maitland Mercury where he won awards for his coverage of the Newcastle Rugby League salary cap scandal. <br \/>Sam is a Novocastrian born-and-bred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam began his Newcastle Herald career as a night police reporter in 2011. He is an experienced court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-616076","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-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616076","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=616076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}