{"id":36142,"date":"2025-09-22T05:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/36142\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:45:08","slug":"christchurch-police-still-working-to-identify-man-with-unusual-birthmark-found-dead-in-heathcote-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/36142\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch police still working to identify man with unusual birthmark found dead in Heathcote Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police also found a backpack with him.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s death is not believed to be suspicious.<\/p>\n
Today, several officers were in the surrounding area at the intersection of Horotane Valley, Port Hills, Tunnel Road and in Duncan Park. <\/p>\n
Police staff search Duncan Park in Heathcote Valley.<\/p>\n
Councillor for Heathcote Valley Sarah Templeton said Heathcote Valley was a tight-knit community that had been impacted by the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are finding it incredibly sad and are hoping that he can be identified,\u201d Templeton said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel for any whanau that he may have had.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horotane Rd in Heathcote Valley.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a lovely community nestled in a couple of valleys,\u201d Templeton said. <\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially after the earthquakes, they\u2019ve been really tight-knit and pretty community-focused.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been the odd incident on and off during the years, and I know that everyone always finds them incredibly sad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police also found a backpack with him. The man\u2019s death is not believed to be suspicious. Today, several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1558,33492,4487,4731,690,1874,305,42,33493,33491,78,5158,43,675,11929,7812,6100,26638,1529,61,1865,40,38,41,39,33494,5427,22187,2217,102,19135],"class_list":["post-36142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-been","tag-birthmark","tag-christchurch","tag-days","tag-dead","tag-found","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-heathcote","tag-identify","tag-in","tag-man","tag-news","tag-police","tag-searching","tag-seen","tag-still","tag-surrounds","tag-three","tag-to","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unidentified","tag-unique","tag-unusual","tag-valley","tag-with","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36142","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=36142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}