{"id":433227,"date":"2026-05-18T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433227\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:50:10","slug":"waimamaku-unexplained-death-police-probe-far-north-rural-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433227\/","title":{"rendered":"Waimamaku unexplained death: Police probe Far North rural property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Wekaweka Rd is off State Highway 12, near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northland-age\/news\/waipoua-forest-tracks-near-northlands-tane-mahuta-closing-for-kauri-dieback-work\/DKF2DX4IJ5BEJBUPT36GASGEMQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northland-age\/news\/waipoua-forest-tracks-near-northlands-tane-mahuta-closing-for-kauri-dieback-work\/DKF2DX4IJ5BEJBUPT36GASGEMQ\/\">Tane Mahuta<\/a> in the Waipoua Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The Northern Advocate understands the property was listed for sale after a man and woman living there separated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The property is reportedly under contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">The Wekaweka Rd address once had a three-bedroom house on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">However, a source said it burned down in a suspicious fire about three or four years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Several old sheds and other out buildings are on the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Police have asked anyone with information to phone 105, quoting reference number 260518\/2990 or Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wekaweka Rd is off State Highway 12, near Tane Mahuta in the Waipoua Forest. The Northern Advocate understands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,24752,28527,84611,634,6097,528,3011,1345,17709,16122,111,43,139,529,69,675,28758,814,17182,3175,1133,1552,1529,221861,8238,23504,199385,540,1530],"class_list":["post-433227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-ago","tag-burned","tag-circumstances","tag-death","tag-down","tag-far","tag-four","tag-home","tag-investigating","tag-mans","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-probe","tag-property","tag-reportedly","tag-rural","tag-sale","tag-suspicious","tag-three","tag-threebedroom","tag-under","tag-unexplained","tag-waimamaku","tag-where","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433227","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=433227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}