{"id":733009,"date":"2026-08-10T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:08:11","slug":"nsw-police-say-body-of-woman-found-in-suitcase-by-side-of-road-near-goulburn-was-not-human-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733009\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW police say \u2018body\u2019 of woman found in suitcase by side of road near Goulburn was not human | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

What appeared to be a woman\u2019s body found in a suitcase by the side of a road near Goulburn in regional New South Wales<\/a> was not in fact human remains, police say.<\/p>\n

NSW police said they were called to Wolgon Road in Oallen about 12.50pm on Sunday \u201cfollowing reports a body had been located\u201d.<\/p>\n

Officers travelled to the remote location and located what was believed to be the body in the suitcase.<\/p>\n

But on Monday morning Supt Linda Bradbury told a press conference that police now did not \u201chave a suspicious death of a human on our hands\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Monday 2GB reported that the object inside the suitcase was a doll. Bradbury was asked if this was the case during the press conference. She not rule this out but said police could not yet confirm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still undertaking more forensic work to identify what they are. But we can identify that they\u2019re not human,\u201d Bradbury said.<\/p>\n

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She said it was good practice not to disturb crime scenes, which is why it took some time to determine the remains were not human. Bradbury said they were \u201cvery realistic in the terms of looking like human remains\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019ve confirmed by other means that they are not.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a suspicious death of a human on our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday Bradbury had told Channel Nine the \u201cfemale remains have been subject to a state of decomposition\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re conducting a number of inquiries to assist us in locating the identification of the female and also how she ended up in that location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are relying a lot on forensic evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The discovery was made by two men who had pulled on to the side of the road by chance, Bradbury said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were able to tell us how they had come across it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were on a weekend drive, as a lot of people do over the weekend, and stopped for a break. [It was] quite a shocking discovery for them, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n

A crime scene was established and the suitcase was \u201cseized to undergo forensic examination while detectives commence an investigation into the incident\u201d.<\/p>\n

Oallen is in the southern tablelands region of NSW, about 75km north-east of Canberra and 185km south-west of Sydney.<\/p>\n

This story was substantially updated on 10 August 2026 after police said the items in the suitcase were not human remains, as was originally claimed and reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What appeared to be a woman\u2019s body found in a suitcase by the side of a road near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-733009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}