{"id":144453,"date":"2026-02-05T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:06:09","slug":"missing-man-from-jacksonville-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144453\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Man from Jacksonville Murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville, AL \u2013 A man, 51-year-old Patrick Slade Boothe, was reported missing on January 23, 2026, was located and it has been reported by the Jacksonville Police that he is deceased. Per JPD\u2019s press release the parties involved have been taken into custody. Due to this being an active and ongoing investigation no further information has been released.<\/p>\n<p>The original missing person article is <a href=\"https:\/\/calhounjournal.com\/jacksonville-police-seek-publics-help-in-locating-missing-man\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The press release also stated, \u201cAt this time we ask for prayers and privacy for the family of Mr. Boothe. Law enforcement has already been in contact with the family. All questions and media contact should be directed to the office of Chief Wood at the Jacksonville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Several law enforcement agencies have participated in this case, including: the Oxford Police Department, Oxford Aviation Unit and the East Metro Area Crime Center; the Calhoun\/Cleburne Violent Crimes Task Force; the Calhoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office; the Talladega County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Talladega County Drug Task Force; the Pell City Police Department; the St. Clair County Sheriff\u2019s Office; the Alabama Game &amp; Fish Division; the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency; and the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, AL \u2013 A man, 51-year-old Patrick Slade Boothe, was reported missing on January 23, 2026, was located&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-144453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}