{"id":726155,"date":"2026-06-09T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726155\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:33:10","slug":"donvale-death-body-of-man-with-suspected-burns-found-by-passerby-in-melbournes-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726155\/","title":{"rendered":"Donvale death: Body of man with suspected burns found by passerby in Melbourne\u2019s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian police are investigating after a man\u2019s body was found with suspected burns in Melbourne\u2019s east.<\/p>\n<p>The yet-to-be identified man was found by a passerby in parkland near Chaim Court in Donvale about 4.20pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ff59929ab2e739e298b1f685e98b316ff58b2a6b5b164893d68e4bc54171e54e.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Looking towards bushland off Chaim Court in Donvale.\u00a0Google Street View<\/p>\n<p>Arson Squad detectives are set to attend the scene, as the circumstances around the man\u2019s death are determined.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the man may have been sleeping rough in the area, as he appears to have no fixed address.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\">www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian police are investigating after a man\u2019s body was found with suspected burns in Melbourne\u2019s east. The yet-to-be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-726155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726155","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=726155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}