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Proof: Police say woman's Waiheke Island death has ‘suspicious’ circumstances

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T00:32:51Z","headline":"Police say woman's Waiheke Island death has ‘suspicious’ circumstances","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/waiheke-island-suspicious-death-police-seek-people-with-information-on-chantelle-mclaughlin-middlemiss/WFRWGFG5SZD5JMB6LWWUPOMV64/","v":1}

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SHA-256

6c04ee615da103fe02c18bd619dd2c3d62cf527ab4165ee1c08a57ce15c90e8c

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970264, mined 2026-10-07 01:05 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 00:37 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 00:37 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-6c04ee615da1.json prints 6c04ee615da103fe02c18bd619dd2c3d62cf527ab4165ee1c08a57ce15c90e8c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-6c04ee615da1.json and headline-6c04ee615da1.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-6c04ee615da1.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. 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.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.