{"id":677789,"date":"2026-05-18T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677789\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:44:11","slug":"woman-found-dead-in-home-may-have-been-there-for-weeks-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677789\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead in home may have been there for weeks, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in her 60s lay dead in a house for weeks before being found, police say.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 50s from the same address has been arrested \ufeffafter the discovery in New Town in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/tasmania\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Tasmania \">Tasmania<\/a> in capital Hobart.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector David Gill said the woman was found dead in the home in Lissadell Court yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dc6e30ab-e79a-45ea-9697-377da2c2a41a.jpeg\"   alt=\"Detective Inspector David Gill said the woman was found dead in the home in Lissadell Court yesterday afternoon.\"\/>Detective Inspector David Gill said the woman was found dead in the home in Lissadell Court yesterday afternoon. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Police say it&#8217;s &#8220;believed the woman has been deceased within the residence for several weeks\ufeff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage police are treating the woman&#8217;s death as suspicious, however, we are keeping an open mind as to the possibility the woman&#8217;s death may be the result of natural causes,&#8221; Gill said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was held for a mental health assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made by somebody who visited the home and went in, finding the door open.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffPolice were called, and a crime scene was declared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While a formal identification has not yet been undertaken, we believe the woman is aged in her 60s and she also resided at the Lissadell Court address,&#8221; Gill said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An autopsy has been scheduled for tomorrow morning to determine the cause of the woman&#8217;s death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 60s lay dead in a house for weeks before being found, police say. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-677789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677789","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=677789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}