{"id":120813,"date":"2026-01-05T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120813\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:30:26","slug":"man-29-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-death-of-milford-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120813\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 29, charged with first-degree murder in death of Milford resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man is accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/sterling-heights-man-in-custody-as-police-investigate-death-of-milford-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killing a Milford, Michigan, resident<\/a> who police said was found dead on Wednesday with &#8220;injuries consistent with a violent attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Online court records show Matthew Frank Molinaro of Sterling Heights is charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the death of Peyton Bilbia, 26. He was arraigned in Oakland County on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A judge denied Molinaro bond, and he was remanded to jail, according to online court records.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Bilbia&#8217;s girlfriend asked police on Wednesday around 4:25 p.m. to check on his welfare after she couldn&#8217;t &#8220;make contact with him for an extended period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officers found Bilbia dead at his home on the 800 block of East Summit Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified Molinaro as a suspect based on evidence they gathered, police said. He was arrested by the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Wednesday at a club in Royal Oak, Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Milford Police Chief Scott Tarasiewicz said Molinaro knew Bilbia and that the incident &#8220;did not appear to be random.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Molinaro could serve life in prison without the possibility of parole. A judge scheduled his probable cause conference for Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: The attached video first aired on Jan. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old man is accused of killing a Milford, Michigan, resident who police said was found dead on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2481,1331,143,904,145,144,5285],"class_list":{"0":"post-120813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-milford","9":"tag-murder","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-county","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-news","14":"tag-royal-oak"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}