New Zealand / Crime

Search for Yanfei Bao continues two months after disappearance

15:23 pm on 13 September 2023

Police and a specialist search team were combing grass, bush and a stream on the side of Hudsons Road. Photo: RNZ / Anna Sargent

The search for missing real estate agent Yanfei Bao is continuing in a rural area south of Christchurch.

The 44-year-old vanished from the suburb of Hornby almost two months ago.

Police and a specialist search team were out in Greenpark on Wednesday, combing grass, bush and a stream on the side of Hudsons Road.

Greenpark, which is 30 minutes from Christchurch, has been a focal point of the investigation.

Police were out searching the side of Hudsons Road on Wednesday. Photo: RNZ / Anna Sargent

Previously police had focused their search on farmland and a pond at a farm property.

Bao was last seen on 19 July.

Tingjun Cao, 52, was charged with kidnapping Bao and later charged with her murder. Cao has pleaded not guilty.