{"id":767498,"date":"2026-06-29T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767498\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:35:11","slug":"missing-darkan-woman-found-safe-after-five-day-community-led-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767498\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Darkan woman found safe after five-day community-led search"},"content":{"rendered":"

The desperate search for a 46-year-old woman who disappeared in southern Western Australia last week has ended with her being found safe and well.<\/p>\n

Jodie King, a resident of Darkan in WA’s southern Wheatbelt, had been missing since Wednesday, sparking a large search party with family, friends, police and SES volunteers.<\/p>\n

WA Police confirmed today Ms King had been found safe and well.<\/p>\n

In a statement from\u00a0her family,\u00a0Ms King’s husband,\u00a0Nathan King,\u00a0thanked the community for its support during the ordeal.<\/p>\n

“I just want to share some great news that Jodie has been found and she is OK,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I can’t\u00a0thank everyone\u00a0enough for the support, care and efforts that have led\u00a0to this point.”<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Jodie King has been found safe and well after being missing since Wednesday. (Supplied: WA Police)<\/p>\n

Graeme Peirce coordinated a community-led search for Ms King over the weekend, which involved up to 50 residents combing several sites around Collie, Pinjarra and Boddington.<\/p>\n

“The police were informed that Jodie couldn’t be contacted at her last known location, which was a phone tower ping on Wednesday, just east of the Logue Brook dam,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Subsequently, on Thursday and Friday, police, along with the family, searched that area by vehicle and helicopter, and neither Jodie or a car were found.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Graeme Peirce coordinated the community-led search for Jodie King.\u00a0 (ABC Great Southern: Andrew Chounding)<\/p>\n

“And that’s when the \u2026 community rallied together and did what they do.<\/p>\n

“It’s just fantastic to see everyone out there. It’s heartwarming \u2026 it’s mind-blowing.”<\/p>\n

Ms King, a nurse and farmer in Darkan, was instrumental in resurrecting the annual agricultural show<\/a>, the Darkan Sheep Fest.<\/p>\n

Mr Peirce said Ms King was a well-liked and respected member of the community, whose disappearance had been heavily felt in the tight-knit town.<\/p>\n

Before she was found, police had said the initial search had been expanded to cover a number of locations across WA’s South West, including the Mount William Tower, Lake Brockman and Logue Brook Dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The desperate search for a 46-year-old woman who disappeared in southern Western Australia last week has ended with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,365321,235815,44,33608,41,39,42,40,365322,45,7977],"class_list":["post-767498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-jodie-king","tag-missing-woman","tag-news","tag-ses","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-volkswagen-touareg","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767498","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=767498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}