{"id":235319,"date":"2026-01-15T22:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235319\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:16:11","slug":"woman-charged-with-murder-following-mans-death-in-tauranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235319\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with murder following man&#8217;s death in Tauranga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has had a family violence charge upgraded to murder after a man was found dead in Tauranga late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Fraser St in the suburb of Parkvale at around 11.40am on December 14.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/14\/homicide-investigation-launched-after-man-found-dead-at-tauranga-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">homicide investigation<\/a> was launched after a man was found dead at the address. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Varnam said a 37-year-old woman, initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/15\/woman-37-charged-in-relation-to-tauranga-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged with assault on a person in a relationship<\/a>, had been today charged with murder following further inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police&#8217;s investigation into the death of the man is ongoing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tauranga Police would like to hear from anyone who may have information about this incident or those involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with relevant information should contact police on 105.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a major road closed by a serious crash, and the new bonuses for our Olympians. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has had a family violence charge upgraded to murder after a man was found dead in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-235319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235319","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=235319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}