Proof: Two children aged 6 and 9 among three found dead in South Auckland home

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T01:13:02Z","headline":"Two children aged 6 and 9 among three found dead in South Auckland home","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/papatoetoe-triple-tragedy-two-children-identified-among-three-found-dead/6X3LDOTN7VBSHHSLASK7TGCZTU/","v":1}

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SHA-256: be0960597ec53c45c106ce0c28b4aecc9cb763d1109d605a767da4fb75fe9ec0

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969936, mined 2026-10-05 01:24 UTC.

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The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 01:17 UTC — view the capture.
The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:22 UTC — view the capture.

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Hash the record: sha256sum headline-be0960597ec5.json prints be0960597ec53c45c106ce0c28b4aecc9cb763d1109d605a767da4fb75fe9ec0. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
Drop headline-be0960597ec5.json and headline-be0960597ec5.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-be0960597ec5.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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