{"id":447992,"date":"2026-05-27T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447992\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:19:10","slug":"dunedin-homicide-douglas-alexander-senior-named-as-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447992\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin homicide: Douglas Alexander Senior named as victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>27 May, 2026 04:36 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The name of a man found dead at a Dunedin home has been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have released the name of a man found dead at a Dunedin property as part of a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Douglas Alexander Senior, 58, was found at a property on  Somerville St, Andersons Bay on May 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The 37-year-old man charged with murder in relation to Senior\u2019s death is<br \/>\n         remanded in custody and  due to appear in the High Court at Dunedin on June 9.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Police have extended their condolences to his family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 27 May, 2026 04:36 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34855,806,690,28705,6788,1874,305,8916,12898,13617,10136,111,43,139,69,5202,675,814,13181,5843,1337],"class_list":["post-447992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-alexander","tag-as","tag-dead","tag-douglas","tag-dunedin","tag-found","tag-have","tag-homicide","tag-investigation","tag-name","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-part","tag-police","tag-property","tag-released","tag-senior","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447992","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=447992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}