{"id":608961,"date":"2026-09-23T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:56:11","slug":"red-zone-being-searched-for-missing-woman-believed-to-be-victim-of-foul-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608961\/","title":{"rendered":"Red zone being searched for missing woman believed to be \u2018victim of foul play\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are\u00a0searching Christchurch\u2019s red zone for missing woman Rowena Walker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walker, 39,\u00a0has been missing since August 14 last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Jo Carolan said the public may notice an increased police presence on Wednesday as the search is undertaken.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/copy-of-rowena_1_1-png.webp\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/copy-of-rowena_1_1-png.webp\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>The last confirmed sighting of Rowena Walker was on August 14, when she was captured on CCTV at a Bassett St business with an associate. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Det Snr Sgt Carolan said the search is \u201croutine\u201d and no further updates on Rowena\u2019s whereabouts\u00a0were available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe Walker has been \u201cthe victim of foul play and is no longer alive\u201d, previous statements said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walker\u2019s partner was not co-operating with police, a statement in June said.<\/p>\n<p>Det Snr Sgt Carolan urged him to \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and speak to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was the last person known to have seen Walker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/copy-of-rowena-walker-was-last-seen-in-august-last-year-photo-nz-police.webp\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/copy-of-rowena-walker-was-last-seen-in-august-last-year-photo-nz-police.webp\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Rowena Walker was last seen in August last year. Photo: NZ Police <\/p>\n<p>Walker\u00a0was last seen on security footage on Bassett St in Burwood.<\/p>\n<p>Police searched the red zone in April,\u00a0deploying\u00a0drones, boats and police ground crews.<\/p>\n<p>Det Snr Sgt Carolan has asked anyone with information to contact police on 105 and quote file number 251022\/9026.<\/p>\n<p>-Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are\u00a0searching Christchurch\u2019s red zone for missing woman Rowena Walker.\u00a0 Walker, 39,\u00a0has been missing since August 14 last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-608961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/608961","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=608961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}