{"id":879524,"date":"2026-09-04T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879524\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:16:15","slug":"joshua-clifton-demell-human-remains-found-in-search-for-missing-dad-seven-months-after-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879524\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Clifton-Demell: Human remains found in search for missing dad seven months after disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human remains have been found in the search for missing South Australian dad Joshua Clifton-Demell, more than seven months after he vanished.<\/p>\n

The remains were found on Friday morning at Yorkey\u2019s Crossing \u2013 beyond the original search zone, but close to where Clifton-Demell\u2019s abandoned motorbike was found in January.<\/p>\n

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Human remains have been found in the search for missing South Australian dad Joshua Clifton-Demell, more than seven months after he vanished.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

Police said it is too early to formally confirm the identity of the remains, which will be sent for forensic testing.<\/p>\n

The breakthrough follows a fresh search this week across 82 square kilometres of rugged terrain, where police and SES volunteers pushed through bad weather to comb the area past the original boundary lines.<\/p>\n

Clifton-Demell, 40, was last seen on January 23 near Port Augusta after heading out for a motorbike ride with his cousin.<\/p>\n

His brother, Tim Clifton, lived with Clifton-Demell and was among the last to see him. <\/p>\n

He previously told 9News about the agonising seven-month wait for answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWent out for a motorbike ride with one of our cousins, and he never returned,\u201d Clifton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey found the motorbike and never found him. It\u2019s been hell, really thinking about what happened to my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the days following the disappearance, Clifton searched the area himself and believed he found a potential clue near the abandoned bike.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found a set of footprints along the pipeline just on this side of the railway track leading back into town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The breakthrough follows a fresh search this week across 82 square kilometres of rugged terrain.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

While officers never publicly linked those footprints to Joshua, the uncertainty weighed heavily on the family after the initial two-week search was called off earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Police thanked the SES volunteers and local community members who helped search the area over the past seven months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains have been found in the search for missing South Australian dad Joshua Clifton-Demell, more than seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-879524","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\/879524","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=879524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}