{"id":458097,"date":"2026-06-03T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458097\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:30:09","slug":"portobello-remains-identified-as-missing-otago-man-murray-wakefield-who-went-missing-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458097\/","title":{"rendered":"Portobello remains identified as missing Otago man Murray Wakefield, who went missing a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Murray Allan Wakefield was reported missing near Port Chalmers last year. Photo \/ New Zealand Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Human skeletal remains found on the Portobello coastline in March have been identified as those of a man reported missing from the area last year, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Portobello is a small settlement on the Otago Peninsula, about 15km east of central Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said officers were notified on March 23<br \/>\n         after a member of the public discovered skeletal remains at low tide on the Portobello coastline.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Inquiries subsequently confirmed the remains were human.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Police carried out a scene examination and made a number of enquiries on behalf of the coroner to establish the person\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murray Allan Wakefield was reported missing near Port Chalmers last year. Photo \/ New Zealand Police Human skeletal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24752,12635,806,1558,41244,1874,71,305,16420,82,685,5158,1535,6501,17700,111,43,139,69,9629,675,232690,10715,15267,5659,172532,7563,57507,2201,1299,379],"class_list":["post-458097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ago","tag-area","tag-as","tag-been","tag-coastline","tag-found","tag-from","tag-have","tag-human","tag-identified","tag-last","tag-man","tag-march","tag-missing","tag-murray","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-otago","tag-police","tag-portobello","tag-remains","tag-reported","tag-say","tag-skeletal","tag-those","tag-wakefield","tag-went","tag-who","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458097","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=458097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}