{"id":143793,"date":"2026-03-20T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143793\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:51:13","slug":"judge-upholds-murder-charge-against-kevin-seelinger-in-woodard-killing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143793\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Upholds Murder Charge Against Kevin Seelinger in Woodard Killing | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Seelinger to Trial.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania state parole agent is heading to trial for first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Seelinger is accused of shooting parolee Marchello Woodard during a compliance check in July.<\/p>\n<p>At a pre-trial hearing today, the defense challenged the charge, but the judge upheld it after reviewing evidence and testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Seelinger\u2019s trial is tentatively set for October 5th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania state parole agent is heading to trial for first-degree murder. Kevin Seelinger is accused of shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,42933,42402,4636,5190,28],"class_list":["post-143793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-first-degree-murder","tag-kevin-seelinger","tag-marchello-woodard","tag-parole-agent","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}