{"id":367294,"date":"2026-06-19T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:27:13","slug":"san-francisco-arts-patrons-found-dead-in-running-car-along-i-5-highway-in-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367294\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco arts patrons found dead in running car along I-5 highway in Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deaths of a San Francisco couple known for their support of the city&#8217;s arts scene are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patrol&#8217;s Redding Area office said officers responded near Fawndale Road shortly after 5:30 p.m. Monday for an SUV stopped on the shoulder of Interstate 5.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the vehicle still running, but both people inside were unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said officers started medical aid, but medics soon pronounced both people dead at the scene. CHP identified them as 84-year-old Judith Sheldon and 86-year-old Wylie Sheldon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1433128\/director-william-wylers-daughter-her-husband-found-dead-in-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Sheldons<\/a> were San Francisco residents known for their arts philanthropy. Judith Sheldon was also the daughter of Hollywood Golden Age director William Wyler, who won Academy Awards for films including &#8220;Ben-Hur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judith Sheldon also served as <a href=\"https:\/\/silentfilm.org\/about\/our-board-and-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">board chair<\/a> for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>While their exact causes of death remain under investigation, CHP said the Sheldons&#8217; deaths appear to be medical-related.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deaths of a San Francisco couple known for their support of the city&#8217;s arts scene are under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,101],"class_list":["post-367294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367294","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=367294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}