{"id":177829,"date":"2025-12-10T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177829\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:52:11","slug":"police-discover-human-remains-at-melbourne-property-amid-probe-into-2014-disappearance-of-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177829\/","title":{"rendered":"Police discover \u2018human remains\u2019 at Melbourne property amid probe into 2014 disappearance of toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">The remains have been found after an investigation into the disappearance of the toddler, who was not reported missing at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">7 News reports the boy lived at the home with his parents and two siblings in 2014, before they moved overseas, possibly to Albania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">The outlet reports police were tipped off by a relative who knew the 18-month-old toddler before his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Current residents of the property have no connection to the investigation or to the people who lived at the property at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSomething like this is not supposed to happen but it\u2019s happened 14 years ago. Something very bad. Very terrible,\u201d one resident told 7 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">An investigation is underway by the Missing Persons Squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remains have been found after an investigation into the disappearance of the toddler, who was not reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80515,5831,534,1975,85,1558,113778,380,9770,9174,1874,28163,305,42,16420,296,685,123,8842,130,43,1118,675,28758,814,10715,7812,55339,8841,131,13835,40,38,41,39,3807],"class_list":["post-177829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-80515","tag-alive","tag-amid","tag-at","tag-australia","tag-been","tag-buried","tag-decade","tag-disappearance","tag-discover","tag-found","tag-grave","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-human","tag-into","tag-last","tag-melbourne","tag-melbournes","tag-more","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-probe","tag-property","tag-remains","tag-seen","tag-shallow","tag-suspected","tag-than","tag-toddler","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177829","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=177829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}