{"id":618164,"date":"2026-10-02T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:54:10","slug":"police-name-two-found-dead-near-reefton-as-probe-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618164\/","title":{"rendered":"Police name two found dead near Reefton as probe continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have named the two people found dead at separate properties near Reefton on the West Coast as investigations into their deaths continue. <\/p>\n<p>They were 34-year-old Chelsey Anne Russell of Maimai and 45-year-old Samuel Frederick Bass of Crushington.<\/p>\n<p>A homicide investigation was launched on Tuesday evening after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/30\/homicide-investigation-launched-after-two-found-dead-near-reefton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two people were found dead<\/a> at properties on State Highway 7, Rahu Saddle and Maimai Road. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are providing wrap-around support to their loved ones at this difficult time,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Geoff Baber said police were not seeking anyone else in relation to the incident, but &#8220;our investigation into the matter continues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a serious incident south of Auckland, fiery protests in France, and a jump off Auckland\u2019s tallest residential tower. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have named the two people found dead at separate properties near Reefton on the West Coast as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,1241],"class_list":["post-618164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618164","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=618164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}