{"id":360864,"date":"2026-04-02T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:30:08","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-two-people-found-dead-in-hamilton-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360864\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after two people found dead in Hamilton East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A man has been charged with two counts of murder after two people were found dead in Hamilton, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 34-year-old man will appear in the Hamilton District Court tomorrow, Detective Inspector Stephen Ambler said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police were called to an address on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hamilton-east-police-operation-cordons-in-place-after-serious-incident\/TSAAKENYTJGP5OF4SKIA3UROHU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hamilton-east-police-operation-cordons-in-place-after-serious-incident\/TSAAKENYTJGP5OF4SKIA3UROHU\/\">York St in<\/a><br \/>\n         Hamilton East after two people were found dead just before 4pm, with Ambler telling media yesterday the deaths were being treated as unexplained.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLater in the evening, an injured man presented himself at hospital, and officers connected the man to the deaths\u201d, Ambler said this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with two counts of murder after two people were found dead in Hamilton,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,13239,113068,690,3806,1874,6288,78,5158,4275,111,43,139,69,384,675,5659,1237,3608,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-360864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-been","10":"tag-charged","11":"tag-counts","12":"tag-dead","13":"tag-east","14":"tag-found","15":"tag-hamilton","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-man","18":"tag-murder","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-people","24":"tag-police","25":"tag-say","26":"tag-two","27":"tag-were","28":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360864","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=360864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}