{"id":635885,"date":"2026-10-20T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635885\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:16:10","slug":"missing-queenstown-woman-erika-rodrigues-coelho-search-for-missing-woman-moves-to-recovery-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635885\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Queenstown woman Erika Rodrigues Coelho: Search for missing woman moves to recovery phase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two specialist dog teams from Christchurch and Blenheim have been brought in to assist the search. <\/p>\n

They are specifically combing areas the team believe Erika would have most likely have travelled, Wood said. <\/p>\n

Officers are still looking for any information that can help locate Erika. <\/p>\n

\u201cAny detail might help investigators understand what happened or where Erika went.\u201d<\/p>\n

A report can be made by calling 105 or by using the online service. On the website, click \u2018Update report\u2019. Reference file number 260921\/8173.<\/p>\n

Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n

The physical search was paused<\/a> on October 6. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, her family told the Herald they were left \u201cdevastated\u201d<\/a> and with no answers after police paused the search. <\/p>\n

Her older brother, Alexandre Coelho, said the hardest part was having no indication of what might have happened to her.<\/p>\n

He said his mother, Aldivina Coelho, was \u201cdevastated\u201d and becoming increasingly distressed with each development. <\/p>\n

She was struggling even to speak to him and other family members, he said.<\/p>\n

Erika\u2019s close friend Bruna Rech was keeping in touch with her family in Brazil. <\/p>\n

The lack of any trace of her friend was the hardest part for Rech to understand.<\/p>\n

She said she was left anxious with a feeling of \u201canguish\u201d over the uncertainty of what had happened to her friend.<\/p>\n

Erika had spoken to Rech about personal difficulties before she disappeared and had been seeing a therapist, she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two specialist dog teams from Christchurch and Blenheim have been brought in to assist the search. They are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1558,1970,303360,690,83897,2082,42,2514,6501,4486,8599,43,45642,675,20930,1881,38537,1870,1240,61,40,38,41,39,1354],"class_list":["post-635885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-been","tag-believe","tag-coelho","tag-dead","tag-erika","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-island","tag-missing","tag-month","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-phase","tag-police","tag-queenstown","tag-recovery","tag-rodrigues","tag-search","tag-south","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635885","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=635885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}