{"id":836099,"date":"2026-07-31T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:40:18","slug":"brisbane-news-desperate-appeal-to-identify-man-found-dead-in-acacia-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836099\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane news: Desperate appeal to identify man found dead in Acacia Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released the sketch of a unique tattoo to try and identify a man who was found dead in Brisbane\u2019s south earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the unidentified man was found in Marnham Street Park, at the intersection of Marnham Street and Mitchell Street, on May 13.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b4a4b9cc900f59d2891182b42c51c9f62fd1e8fbe1057f519dc228b8580e4bf9.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A sketch of the tattoo on the man\u2019s hand.\u00a0Queensland Police<\/p>\n<p>Police say he had a distinctive tattoo on his right hand, and have released a sketch of it in an attempt to get someone to reveal his identity.<\/p>\n<p>The tattoo is mostly black with some red areas, and has the words and letters \u201c4AK42\u201d, as well as a small crown on the top.<\/p>\n<p>He was also wearing a black knitted wool cap with an Aboriginal flag emblem, a brown string necklace, a black t-shirt featuring an image of American singer 50 Cent and black shorts.<\/p>\n<p>His death is not being treated a suspicious, but police are seeking to identify the man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6caa4f3344f7eefebf1084cd82975036612ec8edfcf685b76499fd27bc959af0.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">The man was also wearing a distinctive shirt.\u00a0Queensland Police<\/p>\n<p>He is described as approximately 170cm tall, with a dark complexion, short curly dark brown hair, dark facial hair around the chin.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the identity of the man, or who may have seen him near the area where he died is urged to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released the sketch of a unique tattoo to try and identify a man who was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-836099","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\/836099","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=836099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}