{"id":353395,"date":"2026-06-09T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:58:08","slug":"suspicious-death-investigation-underway-after-body-found-at-vehicle-fire-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353395\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious death investigation underway after body found at vehicle fire in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 KCSO homicide detectives are investigating a suspicious death after a man&#8217;s body was found at the scene of a vehicle fire near Oswell and Oregon streets in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on June 8, 2026, at around 9:30 p.m., homicide detectives were called out to the scene of a vehicle fire in the area of Oswell Street and Oregon Street for a report of a body of a man found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said that at this time, the incident is being investigated as a suspicious death. The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 661-861-3110 or Kern Secret Witness at 661 322 4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 KCSO homicide detectives are investigating a suspicious death after a man&#8217;s body was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-353395","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\/353395","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=353395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}