{"id":194212,"date":"2022-10-14T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=194212"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:41:21","slug":"leah-croucher-dead-sex-offender-named-as-prime-suspect-in-missing-teenager-s-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/leah-croucher-dead-sex-offender-named-as-prime-suspect-in-missing-teenager-s-murder","title":{"rendered":"Leah Croucher: Dead sex offender named as prime suspect in missing teenager&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have named a dead sex offender as a suspect in the murder of a teenager who went missing three and a half years ago. Neil Maxwell would have been arrested in connection with the murder probe into Leah Croucher if he were alive, according to Thames Valley Police . He died by suicide in April 2019, the force said. Police found items belonging to Leah &#8211; who was last seen in February 2019 &#8211; and human remains at a property in Milton Keynes earlier this week. Maxwell was the only person with keys to the house who was in the UK at the time of the 19-year-old&#8217;s disappearance, police said. Thames Valley Police launched a murder investigation after Leah&#8217;s possessions were found at the property in the Furzton area of the city this week. The breakthrough came after a member of the public alerted them to the house on Loxbeare Drive on Monday. Thames Valley Police named Maxwell &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have named a dead sex offender as a suspect in the murder of a teenager who went missing three and a half years ago. Neil Maxwell would have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-194212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}