{"id":458269,"date":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458269\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:56:08","slug":"skeleton-found-in-otago-matched-to-man-missing-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458269\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeleton found in Otago matched to man missing for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human skeletal remains found on an Otago Peninsula coastline in March have been identified as belonging to a man who had been missing for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the public had found the remains on the Portobello coastline at low tide on March 23, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police conducted a scene examination and made a number of inquiries on behalf of the coroner to identify the remains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have since been formally identified as the remains of Murray Allen Wakefield.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wakefield was reported missing from the Deborah Bay area May 13, 2025. He was 55 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Police had notified the family and offered support.<\/p>\n<p>The death had been referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human skeletal remains found on an Otago Peninsula coastline in March have been identified as belonging to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-458269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458269","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=458269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}