{"id":489047,"date":"2026-06-21T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489047\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:37:11","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-christchurch-woman-adele-missing-in-christchurch-for-nearly-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489047\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for Christchurch woman Adele missing in Christchurch for nearly a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Detective Sergeant Luke Vaughan said police were supporting Adele\u2019s family during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is not the outcome we were hoping for, however, we are pleased her family have received some closure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe would like to thank everyone within the community for all their assistance, and the dedication of the search crews who have worked so hard over the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">As the death will be referred to the coroner, police are unable to comment further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">On Saturday, police and volunteers also searched for a man who was separated from his family in Hanmer Springs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/police-search-for-autistic-non-verbal-man-missing-in-hanmer-springs\/VF777RBHERDWRGE2C6SPUR4F4A\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/police-search-for-autistic-non-verbal-man-missing-in-hanmer-springs\/VF777RBHERDWRGE2C6SPUR4F4A\/\">Patrick Eager, 26, was last seen just before 10am on Saturday<\/a> on the Conical Hill Track in Hanmer Springs after becoming separated from his family while walking towards the summit.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Patrick Eager was found just after 10am on Sunday. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Patrick Eager was found just after 10am on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Police earlier said the 26-year-old was autistic and non-verbal, and they were concerned for his welfare as he was both unfamiliar with the area and unlikely to seek help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">About 30 volunteers from Land Search and Rescue joined the police search-and-rescue teams in a co-ordinated effort to find Eager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">He was found just after 10am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier this month, Valerie Hargrave, 81, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/christchurch\/what-happened-valerie-the-disappearance-and-finding-of-81-year-old-christchurch-woman\/JR2IDQ5XWVAV5PECO7VVUS4NYM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/christchurch\/what-happened-valerie-the-disappearance-and-finding-of-81-year-old-christchurch-woman\/JR2IDQ5XWVAV5PECO7VVUS4NYM\/\">missing in Christchurch\u2019s cold winter for four days<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Earlier this month, Valerie Hargrave, 81, was missing for four days. Composite Image \/ NZME\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Earlier this month, Valerie Hargrave, 81, was missing for four days. Composite Image \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">She was found lying in long grass on Tunnel Rd, State Highway 74, in Heathcote, between the walking track and the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Throughout the search, police carried out detailed inquiries, including an initial search and reviewing hours of CCTV and traffic camera footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detective Sergeant Luke Vaughan said police were supporting Adele\u2019s family during this difficult time. \u201cThis is not the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32714,7800,4487,2082,1874,305,42,78,6501,11692,43,675,1870,40,38,41,39,686,1354],"class_list":["post-489047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-adele","tag-body","tag-christchurch","tag-for","tag-found","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-missing","tag-nearly","tag-news","tag-police","tag-search","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-week","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489047","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=489047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}