Police say they have found DNA which they believe to be linked to the person who broke into a house in Kaikohe where an elderly woman later died.<\/p>\n
Linda Woods, 71,\u00a0died on the night of 1 June<\/a>\u00a0after being injured during a scuffle when a person broke into a Taraire Street property.<\/p>\n Police have previously\u00a0described it as a sexually motivated burglary<\/a>, and released\u00a0images of clothing<\/a>\u00a0as well as a screenshot from a video of the suspect who is said to have\u00a0fled barefoot<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a statement on Monday, Detective Inspector Rhys Johnston said the DNA was “a significant piece of evidence” which would help begin a new phase of the homicide investigation.<\/p>\n “We are determined to find this offender so we can get some answers for the victim’s family, and put the community’s minds at rest.<\/p>\n “Police are now making plans to request DNA samples from men who fit the age range and description of the offender so we can eliminate them from our enquiries.”<\/p>\n Police warned the person to speak to them as soon as possible because they were confident of identifying him soon.<\/p>\n Source\u00a0 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police say they have found DNA which they believe to be linked to the person who broke into a house in Kaikohe where an elderly woman later died. Linda Woods, 71,\u00a0died on the night of 1 June\u00a0after being injured during a scuffle when a person broke into a Taraire Street property. Police have previously\u00a0described it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}