{"id":458006,"date":"2019-04-23T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458006"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:17:49","slug":"former-echl-player-woman-found-dead-in-apparent-double-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458006","title":{"rendered":"Former ECHL player, woman found dead in apparent double-homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Darren Partch.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"589176\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/darren-partch-1.jpg\" title=\"Darren Partch.\" \/><\/p>\n<p> A former pro hockey player and a California mom were found dead inside the ECHL star\u2019s Newport Beach apartment. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/exclusives\/2019\/04\/pro-hockey-player-darren-partch-dead-double-homicide\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">As RadarOnline.com has learned<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        , police responded to a 911 call from a man who said he\u2019d just walked into his condo to find the bodies of his roommate, Darren Partch and of a woman he did not recognize, on Sunday, April 21, at 9:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/socal\/daily-pilot\/news\/tn-dpt-me-two-found-dead-newport-beach-20190422-story.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        , the Orange County coroner later identified the woman as Wendi Miller of Costa Mesa. <\/p>\n<p> Police are treating the case as a double-homicide, though the investigation is still ongoing. They do not believe the public is in danger, and have no signs that a criminal broke into the former minor league hockey player\u2019s apartment, <\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/newport-beach-victims-found-dead-in-possible-double-homicide\/5264114\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">KABC reported<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        . <\/p>\n<p> The outlet also reported that Miller, 48, went missing on Friday, April 19, after giving Partch, 38, a ride home from the Sandpiper bar in Laguna Beach, where she was last seen. <\/p>\n<p> On Easter Sunday, Miller\u2019s son wrote an emotional post on Facebook announcing her death: \u201cShe had been shot and it was told to us that she did not suffer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=974280076109631&#038;set=a.104124153125232&#038;type=3&#038;theater <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A former pro hockey player and a California mom were found dead inside the ECHL star\u2019s Newport Beach apartment. As RadarOnline.com has learned , police <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458006\" title=\"Former ECHL player, woman found dead in apparent double-homicide\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458010,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458006\/revisions\/458010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}