{"id":73216,"date":"2016-03-27T11:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=73216"},"modified":"2016-03-29T23:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T03:51:01","slug":"manitoba-boy-disappeared-family-home-drowned-autopsy-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/27\/manitoba-boy-disappeared-family-home-drowned-autopsy-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba boy who disappeared from family home drowned, autopsy shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73219\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73219\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Chase Martens (Facebook photo)\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/image-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase Martens (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AUSTIN, Man. \u2013 RCMP say an autopsy has confirmed that a Manitoba boy whose body was found in a creek Saturday drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Martens walked away from his family home near Austin last Tuesday, prompting an extensive search involving hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed the cause of death, police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year-old\u2019s parents and other family members took part in a vigil Sunday evening on the shore of the creek where the body was found.<\/p>\n<p>His grieving family said they have been overwhelmed by the support people have shown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family of Chase Martens is completely devastated as they come to grips with the tragic loss of their little boy,\u201d read a statement issued by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection on behalf of the boy\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>The release said the family wants to express their heartfelt gratitude to RCMP, the provincial fire commissioner and community volunteers who took part in the search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, Chase\u2019s family is asking for privacy as they grieve with their young children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Man. \u2013 RCMP say an autopsy has confirmed that a Manitoba boy whose body was found in a creek &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[9636],"class_list":["post-73216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-cp","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}