{"id":128512,"date":"2025-11-10T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128512\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:41:07","slug":"kapiti-man-graham-russell-smith-has-been-missing-for-a-year-police-renew-call-for-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128512\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u0101piti man Graham Russell Smith has been missing for a year, police renew call for information"},"content":{"rendered":"

The area has multiple walkways and mountain bike trails, and is a popular area for walkers, day trampers and mountain bikers.<\/p>\n

Smith was described as about 165cm tall and was wearing a blue puffer jacket and brown corduroy pants at the time he was reported missing. He potentially suffered from dementia and had difficulty hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite hundreds of hours searching, including search and rescue field teams, aerial work with helicopters and drones, various dog teams and CIB staff, Graham has not been located,\u201d Mead said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice continue to hold hope that someone may have information that could assist in locating Graham or provide closure to his wh\u0101nau.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you have any information that might help police, please get in touch by calling 105, referencing file number 241111\/3559.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe acknowledge the tireless efforts of all agencies and volunteers involved in the search and thank the community for their support,\u201d Mead said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice also extend our thoughts to Graham\u2019s family at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The area has multiple walkways and mountain bike trails, and is a popular area for walkers, day trampers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6375,12635,1558,3043,9770,2082,71,18361,6871,42,15415,60832,1446,5158,16122,6501,43,675,10903,81932,30248,11763,16189,40,38,41,39,4770,379],"class_list":["post-128512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-appeal","tag-area","tag-been","tag-call","tag-disappearance","tag-for","tag-from","tag-graham","tag-has","tag-headlines","tag-information","tag-kpiti","tag-making","tag-man","tag-mans","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-police","tag-popular","tag-renew","tag-renewed","tag-russell","tag-smith","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-walking","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}