{"id":248483,"date":"2026-04-02T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:04:54","slug":"suspect-pleads-not-guilty-in-state-road-trailer-fire-death-co-defendant-absent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248483\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect pleads not guilty in State Road trailer fire death; co-defendant absent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 One of two suspects <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/oildale-mobile-home-park-fire-under-investigation-after-body-found\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused of setting a 62-year-old woman on fire and killing her<\/a> appeared in a Kern County courtroom for an arraignment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-judge-orders-state-road-murder-case-to-trial-2-held-to-answer-court-docs-crime-oildale-kern-county-sheriff-deputies-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kern judge orders State Road murder case to trial; 2 held to answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Graham and Misha Allen are accused of killing <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/womans-body-identified-in-suspicious-mobile-home-fire-in-oildale-state-road-kern-county-bakersfield-california0-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roxana Jo Kelley<\/a> in August 2025 on State Road. Court documents say Kelly was found tied inside her trailer after it caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/woman-burned-to-death-after-strangled-with-rope-in-state-rd-mobile-home-fire-court-docs-crime-oildale-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woman&#8217;s body burned after she was strangled with rope in State Rd. mobile home fire: Docs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graham pleaded not guilty. Allen did not appear in court, and her arraignment was delayed until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Graham has a tentative trial date set for May 18. He is due in court for a readiness hearing on May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 One of two suspects accused of setting a 62-year-old woman on fire and killing her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-248483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248483","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=248483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}