{"id":290351,"date":"2026-02-18T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/290351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:52:18","slug":"suspicious-death-of-man-found-in-tauranga-park-sparks-homicide-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/290351\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Suspicious&#8217; death of man found in Tauranga park sparks homicide probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A homicide investigation has been launched after the &#8220;suspicious&#8221; death of a man whose body was found in a secluded area of a Tauranga park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the man&#8217;s body was found in Wharepai Domain at around 2pm on Saturday, February 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said a post-mortem found the man&#8217;s death was &#8220;suspicious&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We are now working to establish what happened and identify who was involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cAn examination of the scene has now been completed.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Flowerdew-Brown said police wanted to hear from anyone with information that could assist with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cWe ask people to contact us if they saw unusual or suspicious behaviour around the Wharepai Domain prior to 2pm on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Those who could help were asked to call police on 105. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including new footage of a dramatic Sail GP collision, and the best time to book your next holiday. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation has been launched after the &#8220;suspicious&#8221; death of a man whose body was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290352,"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-290351","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\/290351","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=290351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}