{"id":588613,"date":"2026-09-03T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588613\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:20:08","slug":"pahiatua-homicide-body-believed-to-be-person-of-interest-recovered-from-rotorua-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588613\/","title":{"rendered":"Pah\u012batua homicide: Body believed to be person of interest recovered from Rotorua lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile formal identification is ongoing, it is believed the body may be that of a person of interest related to the homicide investigation,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n

Police said there was no threat to public safety, although residents could expect to see an increased police presence around the lake as inquiries continued.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice have been looking for Jeremy Robertson in relation to the death of a woman in Pah\u012batua on October 17, 2025.<\/p>\n

A search had been underway for Jeremy Robertson as the sole person of interest in the investigation into the death of his mother, Karen Gilbert-Palmer, in Pah\u012batua last October.<\/p>\n

Robertson, in his 50s, was believed to have taken a car from his mother\u2019s property<\/a> and driven about 350km to Rotorua, where the vehicle was found abandoned at the Blue and Green Lakes lookout at Lake Rotok\u0101kahi on Tarawera Rd.<\/p>\n

A previous police statement said police search and rescue staff and volunteers searched near the carpark at the Blue and Green Lakes lookout in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhile formal identification is ongoing, it is believed the body may be that of a person of interest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5195,1558,8843,7800,11581,71,42,8916,12469,12898,13207,43,1118,65671,4056,8694,1327,61,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-588613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-be","tag-been","tag-believed","tag-body","tag-connected","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-interest","tag-investigation","tag-lake","tag-news","tag-of","tag-pahatua","tag-person","tag-recovered","tag-rotorua","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588613","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=588613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}