{"id":468725,"date":"2026-06-09T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/468725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:25:09","slug":"missing-christchurch-woman-police-believe-she-may-not-have-gone-far-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/468725\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Christchurch woman: Police believe she may not have gone far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are continuing their search for an 81-year-old Canterbury woman who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/07\/appeal-for-sightings-of-missing-81-year-old-christchurch-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">missing since Saturday morning<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Baillie said they believed Valerie would not have travelled  far from the area but concerns for her were growing. <\/p>\n<p>People in the suburb were asked to check their properties as part of the search.<\/p>\n<p>Police said she was wearing a pink cardigan or jersey and walked with a shuffle.<\/p>\n<p>She is around 167cm tall and of small build.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the time that has passed since confirmed sighting of Valerie, her family and police are growing increasingly concerned for her welfare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Baillie said there will be an increased police presence in Woolston and surrounding areas as officers made further enquiries. <\/p>\n<p>After the woman was found on the afternoon of June 9, 1News redacted her name and photo from this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are continuing their search for an 81-year-old Canterbury woman who has been missing since Saturday morning. Detective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-468725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/468725","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=468725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}