{"id":467932,"date":"2026-06-09T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467932\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:59:09","slug":"rotorua-police-seek-clothing-link-in-melissa-jones-death-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467932\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua police seek clothing link in Melissa Jones death investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\" Melissa Jones pictured wearing the clothing items police are looking for. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Melissa Jones pictured wearing the clothing items police are looking for. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Following a recent coroner\u2019s case management conference, police confirmed to the coroner and Jones\u2019 family that the investigation remained open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAny new information that comes to light will continue to be assessed and investigated,\u201d Ngawika said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice believe there are people in the community who may hold information that could assist in establishing what happened to Melissa.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police search Lake Rotorua before finding the body of Melissa Jones. Photo \/ File\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police search Lake Rotorua before finding the body of Melissa Jones. Photo \/ File<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAnyone who may have information is encouraged to come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone with information who has not yet spoken to police is urged to contact Rotorua police or provide information anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, quoting file number 191018\/9875.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa Jones pictured wearing the clothing items police are looking for. Following a recent coroner\u2019s case management conference,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39426,634,78,12898,2176,58,74216,111,43,139,69,675,1327,11925],"class_list":["post-467932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-clothing","tag-death","tag-in","tag-investigation","tag-jones","tag-link","tag-melissa","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rotorua","tag-seek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467932","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=467932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}