{"id":367536,"date":"2026-04-07T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367536\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:30:08","slug":"police-renew-appeal-for-information-on-missing-christchurch-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367536\/","title":{"rendered":"Police renew appeal for information on missing Christchurch woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have renewed calls for information in the search for missing Christchurch woman Rowena Walker, nearly eight months after she was last seen. <\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old was last captured on CCTV on August 15, on Bassett St in Christchurch alongside an associate. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sargeant Jo Carolan said inquiries remained ongoing as officers continued to follow multiple lines of investigations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know she travelled often, and in our efforts, we have searched in several districts including Waikato, Tasman, and Canterbury. Unfortunately, we have not been able to locate Rowena, Carolan said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rowena has not been in contact with her children since she went missing, and as her 40th birthday approaches, her family are now desperately worried for her safety. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you know anything, no matter how small you think it may be, it may be the piece in the puzzle we need to locate Rowena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police thanked members of the public for their assistance with the investigations so far. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with relevant information was encouraged to contact police via 105 referencing file number 251022\/9026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have renewed calls for information in the search for missing Christchurch woman Rowena Walker, nearly eight months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-367536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-christchurch-canterbury","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367536","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=367536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}