{"id":299073,"date":"2026-02-24T03:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:02:10","slug":"police-find-human-remains-in-search-for-chris-baghsarian-85-kidnapped-from-north-ryde-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299073\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find human remains in search for Chris Baghsarian, 85, kidnapped from North Ryde home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexandra Feiam<\/p>\n

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24 Feb, 2026 12:26 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n

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Chris Baghsarian was kidnapped from his North Ryde home. Photo \/ NSW Police<\/p>\n

Police have found human remains in the search for Sydney grandfather, Chris Baghsarian, who was the victim of a suspected botched kidnapping in Sydney\u2019s north.<\/p>\n

The 85-year-old was snatched from his home in North Ryde by a group of masked intruders iearly on February 13.<\/p>\n

\n Police launched a massive search
\n for Baghsarian, who they believe was kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity.\n <\/p>\n

Detectives today confirmed they found human remains near a golf club in Pitt Town, about 45km from where Baghsarian was kidnapped.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestigations under Strike Force Chobat continue,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra Feiam news.com.au\u00b7 24 Feb, 2026 12:26 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12621,164482,24003,3276,1866,2082,1874,71,42835,305,42,1345,16420,78,20920,20925,43,529,675,10715,164483,1870,8841,1734,7976,40,38,41,39,1337],"class_list":["post-299073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-12621","tag-baghsarian","tag-botched","tag-chris","tag-find","tag-for","tag-found","tag-from","tag-grandfather","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-home","tag-human","tag-in","tag-kidnapped","tag-kidnapping","tag-news","tag-north","tag-police","tag-remains","tag-ryde","tag-search","tag-suspected","tag-sydney","tag-sydneys","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299073","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=299073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}