{"id":3571,"date":"2019-09-02T03:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T03:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2019-09-02T03:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T03:34:24","slug":"police-appeal-for-assistance-with-investigation-into-death-of-woman-near-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/police-appeal-for-assistance-with-investigation-into-death-of-woman-near-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for assistance with investigation into death of woman near Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police will address the media to appeal for public assistance after a <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3572\" src=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/020919-SF-Furzer-Danielle-Easey-Still-3-copy-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/>woman\u2019s body was found in a creek near Newcastle at the weekend.<br \/>\nAbout 10.30am on Saturday (31 August 2019), police were called to Cockle Creek, near Wakefield Road, Killingworth, after members of the public saw an item wrapped in plastic floating in the water.<br \/>\nThe plastic, containing a woman\u2019s body, was removed from the water.<br \/>\nThe woman has since been formally identified as 29-year-old, Danielle Easey.<br \/>\nMs Easey lived in Booragul with family, but more recently she was staying at multiple locations around the area.<br \/>\nDetectives from the State Crime Command\u2019s Homicide Squad and Lake Macquarie Police District have established Strike Force Furzer to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death and are appealing for public assistance to establish her last movements.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police will address the media to appeal for public assistance after a woman\u2019s body was found in a creek near Newcastle at the weekend. About 10.30am on Saturday (31 August 2019), police were called to Cockle Creek, near Wakefield Road, Killingworth, after members of the public saw an item wrapped in plastic floating in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/police-appeal-for-assistance-with-investigation-into-death-of-woman-near-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police appeal for assistance with investigation into death of woman near Newcastle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}