{"id":299383,"date":"2026-02-24T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299383\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:17:08","slug":"human-remains-found-in-search-for-kidnapped-sydney-grandad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299383\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found in search for kidnapped Sydney grandad"},"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]\">Human remains have been found by detectives investigating the mistaken kidnapping of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Baghsarian, 85, was kidnapped from his North Ryde property early on February 13 when three men stormed the home and bundled him into an SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police repeatedly told the kidnappers they had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/02\/16\/fears-for-85yo-kidnapped-from-sydney-home-in-case-of-mistaken-identity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken the wrong person<\/a> and publicly urged them to release the elderly man, who relied on daily medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Searches in recent days focused on semi-rural areas on Sydney&#8217;s northern outskirts after a car linked to the kidnapping was seen in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">About 8am on Tuesday, detectives found what is believed to be human remains near a golf club in Pitt Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The historic township is about 30 minutes by road from Dural, where investigators on Friday located the kidnappers&#8217; makeshift stronghold in a vacant, derelict house back from street view.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">No arrests have been made over the kidnapping of the widower, who has lived alone for about four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;This whole case has not been our normal kind of investigation in relation to kidnapping and a hostage,&#8221; lead police investigator Andrew Marks told reporters earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains have been found by detectives investigating the mistaken kidnapping of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian. Baghsarian, 85,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-299383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299383","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=299383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}