{
  "id": 9409289,
  "title": "Missing mum likely had frequent phone contact with Cairns man",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/missing-mum-likely-had-frequent-phone-contact-with-cairns-man",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T20:02:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ABC News AU",
    "slug": "abc-news-au",
    "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/joanne-butterfield-inquest-told-phone-contact-varga/107186480"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A coroner has heard Joanne Butterfield's telephone bill showed nine calls to another landline in the lead up to her 1998 disappearance but detectives did not speak with the man that number belonged to for more than two decades.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}