{"id":202339,"date":"2026-05-26T06:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202339\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:40:19","slug":"mother-kills-daughter-and-then-reports-her-missing-police-in-west-virginia-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202339\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother kills daughter and then reports her missing, police in West Virginia say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother in West Virginia has been charged with murder in the death of her daughter, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/default-2026-05-25t164325-677.png#.png\" alt=\"default-2026-05-25t164325-677.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Staci Wind was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Ayla Wind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo Credit: Richwood Fire Department)<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia State Police said in a news release that 50-year-old Staci Wind was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of her 26-year-old daughter, Ayla Wind. Staci Wind was taken to the Central Regional Jail. Her bail was denied, according to jail records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State police in West Virginia said the remains of Ayla Wind were found in a shallow grave near Summit Lake in Greenbrier County  on May 22, four days after Staci Wind reported her daughter missing to the Richwood Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After an investigation, authorities said Staci Wind was arrested on May 23 at a home on Riverside Drive in Richwood.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the 26-year-old woman&#8217;s death continues, state police said. Authorities did not release any additional details regarding Ayla Wind&#8217;s death or the investigation into Staci Wind.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother in West Virginia has been charged with murder in the death of her daughter, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,783,73,75,74,978],"class_list":["post-202339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202339","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=202339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}