{"id":284178,"date":"2026-04-24T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:53:09","slug":"sacramento-suspect-arrested-in-2024-murder-of-tyson-fiddler-in-el-dorado-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284178\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento suspect arrested in 2024 murder of Tyson Fiddler in El Dorado County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest was made in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/missing-man-found-dead-in-remote-area-of-el-dorado-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death of a man who went missing in El Dorado County<\/a>\u00a0in 2024, authorities said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The El Dorado County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Tyson Fiddler went missing in early October 2024. He was last seen in the early morning hours at the PJ&#8217;s Roadhouse on Mother Lode Drive in Placerville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tyson-fiddler.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"tyson-fiddler.jpg \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Tyson Fiddler was found dead in a remote area of El Dorado County in October 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                El Dorado County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Fiddler&#8217;s body was located in a remote area of El Dorado County just days later.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, authorities said they arrested 47-year-old Joshua Lighthall of Sacramento in connection with Fiddler&#8217;s death. He was booked into jail on a no-bail arrest warrant for murder, deputies added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding Fiddler&#8217;s death have not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest was made in connection with the death of a man who went missing in El Dorado&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8921,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-284178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-el-dorado-county","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284178","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=284178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}