Jessica Boyce homicide: Specialist investigators looking into blaze at Marlborough property

Specialist fire investigators are looking into a fire at a Marlborough property that has been searched in the past in connection with an unsolved homicide.

About 50 vehicles and rubbish were burned at the Canvastown site yesterday.

The Herald understands the property has been searched twice in the past by police investigating the disappearance of Jessica Boyce.

Jessica Boyce, 27, was last seen in March 2019.

Boyce, then 27, was last seen in the Marlborough town of Renwick on March 19, 2019. She was driving her mother’s red Holden Rodeo ute, which was discovered three days later, parked at the Lake Chalice carpark in the Richmond Range.

Police initially thought Boyce was a missing person, but upgraded the case to a homicide investigation in October 2019.

“Specialist fire investigators are at the scene and an investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing,” Fire and Emergency New Zealand said.