{"id":1000980,"date":"2026-08-14T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1000980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:36:15","slug":"body-found-in-baulkham-hills-creek-as-foul-play-not-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1000980\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Baulkham Hills creek as foul play not ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major police operation is under way in Sydney\u2019s northwest after a man was found dead in a creek during the search for a missing person.<\/p>\n<p>Officers made the discovery about 10.15am on Friday at Torry Burn Reserve in Baulkham Hills, where the man\u2019s body was found face down in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Police sealed off the reserve soon after, with water police, specialist divers and forensic officers sweeping the creek and surrounding bushland for clues.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not formally identified the man and are waiting on urgent forensic testing to help determine how he died.<\/p>\n<p>Foul play has not been ruled out, with detectives from Strike Force Lanrik now leading inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the death and whether it is suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/sydney\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Sydney\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major police operation is under way in Sydney\u2019s northwest after a man was found dead in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1000981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[395861,400778,400775,400761,400776,382415,400773,400762,4740,400763,400777,4637,374245,400766,72064,400771,17827,400760,126660,5208,400780,2089,50,260317,43416,7207,442,400764,400767,13048,400774,400769,400770,400781,378559,262315,400772,400765,400768,6003,400779,233508],"class_list":["post-1000980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-s-body","tag-s-northwest","tag-10-15am","tag-a-creek","tag-a-major-police-operation","tag-a-man","tag-a-missing-person","tag-a-search","tag-australia","tag-baulkham-hills","tag-baulkham-hills-creek","tag-body","tag-bushland","tag-clues-investigators","tag-detectives","tag-died-foul-play","tag-face","tag-forensic-officers","tag-foul-play","tag-friday","tag-inquiries","tag-man","tag-news","tag-newswire-news","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-reserve","tag-specialist-divers","tag-strike-force-lanrik","tag-sydney","tag-the-circumstances","tag-the-creek","tag-the-death","tag-the-discovery","tag-the-man","tag-the-reserve","tag-the-search","tag-the-water-police","tag-torry-burn-reserve","tag-tragedy","tag-urgent-forensic-testing","tag-water-police"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}