WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains mentions of deceased persons.<\/p>\n
Human remains have been found in the search for a South Australian man who has not been seen since January this year.<\/p>\n
Joshua Clifton Demell, 39, was last seen at Port Augusta on January 23, 2026.<\/p>\n
His abandoned motorbike was found about 13km away near Yorkey\u2019s Crossing the following day.<\/p>\n
Police conducted several searches of the area but failed to find any signs of Mr Demell.<\/p>\n
They returned to the area this week with help from mounted operations and State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers.<\/p>\n
Human remains were discovered on Friday morning outside the initial search area.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Josh Heinze told ABC on the day Mr Demell went missing Port Augusta was experiencing extreme heat, with temperatures in the mid-40s.<\/p>\n
He said the remains were found kilometres away from Mr Demell\u2019s motorbike.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is too early to confirm the identity of the human remains,\u201d a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will be sent for forensic testing and police will hopefully have an answer soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains mentions of deceased persons. Human…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[449408,449410,85593,449400,377579,410843,449402,2655,443819,449395,377917,449391,64,63,443810,14240,449398,39598,295320,15369,74815,175563,376839,449392,449414,189443,449404,449399,449406,13053,449403,449396,449393,44,187436,1158,228268,449405,7452,33608,449401,151289,61076,377706,379738,449394,449397,449409,449412,449411,402128,385662,408622,378816,199184,449413,1634,449407],"class_list":["post-880078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-motorbike","tag-2026-his","tag-85593","tag-a-grim-update","tag-a-man","tag-a-police-spokesman","tag-a-south-australian-man","tag-abc","tag-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-readers","tag-about-13km","tag-an-answer","tag-any-signs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-deceased-persons","tag-extreme-heat","tag-forensic-testing-and","tag-friday","tag-grim","tag-human","tag-human-remains","tag-january","tag-january-23","tag-january-this-year","tag-joshua-clifton-demell","tag-kilometres","tag-mentions","tag-missing-aussie-dad","tag-months-long-search","tag-morning","tag-mounted-operations","tag-mr-demell","tag-mr-demell-they","tag-news","tag-newswire-news","tag-police","tag-port-augusta","tag-port-augusta-man-joshua-clifton-demell","tag-search","tag-ses","tag-several-searches","tag-state-emergency-service","tag-temperatures","tag-the-area","tag-the-day","tag-the-following-day-police","tag-the-human-remains","tag-the-identity","tag-the-initial-search-area-superintendent-josh-heinze","tag-the-mid-40s-he","tag-the-remains","tag-the-search","tag-their-search","tag-this-article","tag-this-week","tag-volunteers-human-remains","tag-warning","tag-yorkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880078","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=880078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}