{"id":24230,"date":"2025-11-04T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24230\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:52:06","slug":"man-who-killed-13-including-his-5-children-dies-in-pa-prison-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24230\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who killed 13, including his 5 children, dies in Pa. prison | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most notorious mass murderers in Pennsylvania and across the U.S. has died in prison in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p>George Banks died at State Correctional Institution &#8211; Phoenix on Sunday at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, Banks shot 14 people, killing 13, during a rampage in Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dead were his five children, and two other kids.<\/p>\n<p>Banks was sentenced to death, but the sentence was overturned because he was deemed mentally incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>The Montgomery County coroner attributed his death to complications from kidney cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most notorious mass murderers in Pennsylvania and across the U.S. has died in prison in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-24230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-montgomery-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24230","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=24230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}