{"id":28884,"date":"2025-09-18T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28884\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:49:08","slug":"body-of-missing-auckland-woman-eileen-davenport-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28884\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing Auckland woman Eileen Davenport found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEMAL_RNZD0270_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice are not treating the death as suspicious.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have found the body of a woman who has been missing from M\u0101ngere for nearly three months.<\/p>\n<p>Eileen &#8216;Ella&#8217; Davenport, 57, had been missing from her Hain Avenue home since 20 June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Hayward, of Counties Manukau West CIB, said on 10 September police located a body in a reserve near Savill Drive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police had been carrying out a search operation as part of ongoing enquiries to locate her,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The area being searched consisted of dense scrub and a creek which flows into the Manukau Estuary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has taken us some time, but we can confirm that the body has now been formally identified as Ms Davenport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police were not treating the death as suspicious and she had been returned to her wh\u0101nau, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are not treating the death as suspicious. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Police have found the body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-28884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884","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=28884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}