{"id":382368,"date":"2026-07-01T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:06:10","slug":"oakland-man-found-guilty-in-2024-murder-torture-of-bay-area-artist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382368\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Man Found Guilty In 2024 Murder, Torture Of Bay Area Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Frieson, 30, was found guilty of second-degree murder, torture, and corporal injury to a spouse with great bodily injury for the March 2024 murder of 25-year-old Zoe Nika Reidy Watts, a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and San Francisco State University graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Frieson attacked Reidy Watts inside his Oakland apartment, inflicting what the DA&#8217;s Office called &#8220;catastrophic injuries that resulted in her death.&#8221; Evidence presented throughout the case showed that Reidy Watts and Frieson had been in an on-again, off-again relationship for less than one year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Frieson, 30, was found guilty of second-degree murder, torture, and corporal injury to a spouse with great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-382368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382368","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=382368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}