{"id":354872,"date":"2026-07-28T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354872\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:36:08","slug":"fort-myers-man-charged-after-mom-found-shot-burned-in-ranchette-road-home-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354872\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers man charged after mom found shot, burned in Ranchette Road home | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A 23-year-old man is behind bars after what the Lee County Sheriff’s Office called the most horrific acts of violence imaginable.<\/p>\n

Investigators said George Beemer killed his own mother, then lit her on fire. New body camera video<\/a> from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office shows Beemer’s arrest last Saturday.<\/p>\n

He now faces second-degree murder, first-degree arson and abuse of a dead human body. New this morning, his arrest report says he admitted to shooting his own mother, waiting for her to die, then lit her body on fire.<\/p>\n

According to investigators, it all started when Beemer called 911 complaining of chest pains at the Ranchette Road home. While he was being taken to the hospital, a second 911 call came in reporting a fire at the same home.<\/p>\n

When firefighters arrived, they found a woman’s dead body, badly burned. It was so burned the sheriff’s office still cannot positively identify it.<\/p>\n

Beemer remains in custody as the investigation continues. He is scheduled to be in court for a motions hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A 23-year-old man is behind bars after what the Lee County Sheriff’s Office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-354872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354872","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=354872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}