Randell Todd, who lives in the US, is currently in New Zealand on holiday for her mother\u2019s 100th. She said Gilbert-Palmer was invited to the celebrations but was unable to attend.<\/p>\n
On October 14, Randell Todd mailed her cousin some lipstick she wanted from the US. The following day Gilbert-Palmer was dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was all just so shocking and unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Randell Todd\u2019s sister, Kei Purcell, said Gilbert-Palmer had looked after Robertson \u201chis whole life\u201d.<\/p>\n
Gilbert-Plamer trained as a nurse, and took care of her parents as they got older.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day she would stop into their house\u2026 She was very devoted to her parents and her family and her dog. She loved her animals,\u201d Randell Todd said.<\/p>\n
Randell Todd said Gilbert-Palmer\u2019s daughter, who lived in Australia, had travelled to New Zealand.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Thompson said that police continued to support Gilbert-Palmer\u2019s family and keep them updated on the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigation is now focused into locating Jeremy Robertson and police continue to seek information regarding his whereabouts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police wanted to speak with Robertson, who is in his 50s and is of solid build.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to hear from anyone who may have seen Jeremy in the Tarawera Rd, Rotorua area from Wednesday, 15 October.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also continue to appeal for information from the public, including any information about a red, late-model Mitsubishi ASX VRX station wagon, registration QGU91.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone who saw Jeremy should not approach him, but call 111 immediately and advise police.<\/p>\n
Non-urgent information could be provided through the 105 service, referencing file number 251015\/6286.<\/p>\n
Information could also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
– RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randell Todd, who lives in the US, is currently in New Zealand on holiday for her mother\u2019s 100th.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3595,690,72600,2109,1874,42,8454,43,425,65671,675,15768,22639,61,40,38,41,39,5828,6736,1354],"class_list":["post-98743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-by","tag-dead","tag-devoted","tag-family","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-including","tag-news","tag-now","tag-pahatua","tag-police","tag-sherwood","tag-son","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wanted","tag-was","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98743","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=98743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}