{"id":493199,"date":"2026-06-24T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493199\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:11:14","slug":"search-for-missing-gold-coast-magician-daniel-hidden-ends-in-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493199\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for missing Gold Coast magician Daniel Hidden ends in tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Kirk<\/p>\n<p>news.com.au\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>24 Jun, 2026 05:15 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Daniel Hidden, 26, was found dead in bushland at Mount Cougal National Park in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Daniel Hidden was last seen after he left his home in Broadbeach, Gold Coast, in a silver Hyundai Santa Fe wagon, towing a Galaxy caravan, about 3am on June 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Two days later, on June 16, police found his vehicle and caravan at a Currumbin Creek Rd carpark in Currumbin<br \/>\n         Valley.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">His disappearance sparked a widespread, multi-agency search operation spanning 10 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">About 11am on Wednesday, Queensland Police said the 26-year-old\u2019s body had been found in bushland at Mount Cougal National Park in Currumbin Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The forensic search for the magician involved police, Polair and drones, with the Australian Defence Force also drafted into the operation this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Kirk news.com.au\u00b7 24 Jun, 2026 05:15 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1443,74,247059,41187,11586,18829,4726,2082,5434,4241,42,538,1345,34547,78,13419,685,101,201709,6501,43,58605,1870,7812,7457,40,38,41,39,74932,12628,73008],"class_list":["post-493199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-about","tag-after","tag-broadbeach","tag-caravan","tag-coast","tag-daniel","tag-ends","tag-for","tag-galaxy","tag-gold","tag-headlines","tag-hidden","tag-home","tag-hyundai","tag-in","tag-june","tag-last","tag-left","tag-magician","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-santa","tag-search","tag-seen","tag-silver","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-towing","tag-tragedy","tag-wagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493199","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=493199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}