Police believe suspect in mother's death 'most likely' dead

In the quiet aftermath of a mother's death in Pahiatua, New Zealand, the man police named as their only person of interest has himself most likely perished — his vehicle abandoned near Rotorua's Green and Blue Lakes, his bank accounts silent, his phone dark. Nearly eight months on, Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Thompson has arrived at the conclusion that absence itself makes: Jeremy Robertson almost certainly did not survive the landscape he fled into. What remains now is not a search for a living man, but a search for remains — and for the closure that a grieving family has been denied since