{"id":400115,"date":"2026-07-16T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400115\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:31:14","slug":"kern-county-sheriffs-office-seeks-tips-in-2001-oildale-cold-case-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400115\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office seeks tips in 2001 Oildale cold case murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is seeking information in the unsolved murder of Wendy Kyle, who was stabbed to death inside her burning Oildale home in May 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are looking for anyone who was at the Mint on the night Kyle was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to call Detective Thompson at 681-3110 or the Secret Witness Line at 322-4040.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is seeking information in the unsolved murder of Wendy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,25599,160669,162,4698,160670,160672,160671],"class_list":["post-400115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cold-case","tag-kern-county-cold-case","tag-kern-county-news","tag-kern-county-sheriffs-office","tag-oildale-murder","tag-unsolved-murder","tag-wendy-kyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400115","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=400115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}