{"id":794646,"date":"2026-07-12T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794646\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:32:09","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-remains-believed-to-be-missing-woman-found-in-queensland-bushland-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794646\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after remains believed to be missing woman found in Queensland bushland | Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police have charged a man with murder after remains believed to be a woman missing for several days were found in bushland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">As of Sunday morning, the remains were yet to be formally identified but Queensland police investigators believe they are those of Jana Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Armstrong was reported missing from a suburb in Toowoomba, south of Brisbane, after she was last seen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Officers released footage of Armstrong, seen wearing a green-and-white striped Country Road shirt, jeans and thongs, with her white Hyundai car located about 500m from her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A crime scene was declared at 11.20pm on Saturday after the remains were located in bushland off Esk Hampton road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Investigators were in contact with Armstrong\u2019s family as forensic examinations continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Detectives later arrested a 48-year-old man at his Toowoomba home, and he was charged with one count of murder (domestic violence offence).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He was due to appear in court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police appealed to the public for any relevant information, CCTV or dashcam footage to aid in their investigations. They pinpointed locations between Toowoomba and Esk from 10.30pm on 7 July, after Armstrong was reported missing, to 1.30am on 8 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police were due to address the media later on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a man with murder after remains believed to be a woman missing for several days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-794646","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\/794646","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=794646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}