{"id":588493,"date":"2026-08-10T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588493\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:10:14","slug":"nsw-police-say-body-of-woman-found-in-suitcase-by-side-of-road-near-goulburn-was-not-human-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588493\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW police say \u2018body\u2019 of woman found in suitcase by side of road near Goulburn was not human | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

What appeared to be a woman\u2019s body found in a suitcase by the side of a road near Goulburn in regional New South Wales<\/a> was not in fact human remains, police say.<\/p>\n

NSW police said they were called to Wolgon Road in Oallen about 12.50pm on Sunday \u201cfollowing reports a body had been located\u201d.<\/p>\n

Officers travelled to the remote location and located what was believed to be the body in the suitcase.<\/p>\n

But on Monday morning Supt Linda Bradbury told a press conference that police now did not \u201chave a suspicious death of a human on our hands\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Monday 2GB reported that the object inside the suitcase was a doll. Bradbury was asked if this was the case during the press conference. She not rule this out but said police could not yet confirm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still undertaking more forensic work to identify what they are. But we can identify that they\u2019re not human,\u201d Bradbury said.<\/p>\n

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She said it was good practice not to disturb crime scenes, which is why it took some time to determine the remains were not human. Bad weather was also a factor, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t like to disturb them too much in situ, particularly when we have faced inclement weather, as we did yesterday and again today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Bradbury said they were \u201cvery realistic in the terms of looking like human remains\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve confirmed by other means that they are not.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a suspicious death of a human on our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday Bradbury had told Channel Nine the \u201cfemale remains have been subject to a state of decomposition\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re conducting a number of inquiries to assist us in locating the identification of the female and also how she ended up in that location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are relying a lot on forensic evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The discovery was made by two men who had pulled on to the side of the road by chance, Bradbury said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were able to tell us how they had come across it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were on a weekend drive, as a lot of people do over the weekend, and stopped for a break. [It was] quite a shocking discovery for them, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Oallen is in the southern tablelands region of NSW, about 75km north-east of Canberra and 185km south-west of Sydney.<\/p>\n

This story was substantially updated on 10 August 2026 after police said the items in the suitcase were not human remains, as was originally claimed and reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What appeared to be a woman\u2019s body found in a suitcase by the side of a road near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-588493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}