{"id":560509,"date":"2026-03-25T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560509\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:52:16","slug":"womans-body-found-in-gravel-yard-on-vancouver-island-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560509\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s body found in gravel yard on Vancouver Island: RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Vancouver Island are investigating what they describe as a suspicious death after a woman&#8217;s body was found in a Duncan gravel yard. <\/p>\n<p>North Cowichan\/Duncan RCMP say they responded to a report of a deceased woman located in a city gravel yard in the 3900 block of Cliffs Road on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A city of <a href=\"https:\/\/cvrd.ca\/communities\/electoral-areas-municipalities\/area-single\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">around 5,000 people<\/a>, Duncan is located about halfway between Victoria and Nanaimo. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mounties say officers were assisted by the forensic identification unit and police dog services to investigate. They say the circumstances surrounding the woman&#8217;s death are considered suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Coroners Service is also conducting a fact-finding investigation, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information to contact North Cowichan\/Duncan RCMP at 250-748-5522.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-560509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}