{"id":409076,"date":"2026-07-23T05:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:31:08","slug":"man-arrested-for-murder-of-woman-found-dead-in-northwest-fresno-dumpster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409076\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for murder of woman found dead in northwest Fresno dumpster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An arrest has been made for the murder of a woman whose body was found in a northwest Fresno dumpster on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The video above is from an earlier story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Police say 58-year-old Michael Koontz of Fresno was arrested Wednesday for the murder of 52-year-old Jennifer &#8220;Michelle&#8221; Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jones&#8217; body was found in the area of Fallbrook Avenue, east of Ingram Avenue around 1 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Homicide detectives were called in to take over the case and determined Jones was the victim of a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives say Koontz did know Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Koontz has been booked into the Fresno County Jail on a murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Although an arrest has been made, detectives urge anyone with information on this case to contact the Fresno Police Department or Valley Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An arrest has been made for the murder of a woman whose body was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[163972,112,114,113,4052,294,162406],"class_list":["post-409076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-163972","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-police-say","tag-timely","tag-woman-found-dead-in-dumpster-in-northwest-fresno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409076","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=409076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}