{"id":849208,"date":"2026-08-09T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849208\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:56:11","slug":"body-of-woman-found-in-suitcase-by-side-of-road-in-regional-nsw-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849208\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of woman found in suitcase by side of road in regional NSW | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The body of a woman has been found in a suitcase by the side of a road in regional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/new-south-wales\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New South Wales<\/a> south of Goulburn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">NSW police said they were called to Wolgon Road, near Oallen Ford Road, in Oallen at about 12.50pm on Sunday \u201cfollowing reports a body had been located\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Officers travelled to the remote location 40km south of Goulburn and located the body in the suitcase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It was yet to be formally identified but was \u201cbelieved to be female\u201d, a police spokesperson said on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A crime scene was established and the suitcase was \u201cseized to undergo forensic examination while detectives commence an investigation into the incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Police did not immediately reveal how long the body may have been at the location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The area is 70km east of Canberra and 180km south-west of Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a woman has been found in a suitcase by the side of a road in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-849208","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\/849208","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=849208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}