{"id":15382,"date":"2025-10-22T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15382\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:56:35","slug":"north-texas-man-arrested-near-houston-after-wife-an-alvarado-teacher-found-dead-in-their-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/15382\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas man arrested near Houston after wife, an Alvarado teacher, found dead in their home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Alvarado man accused of killing his wife, a beloved local teacher, was arrested about 160 miles away near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/houston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Houston<\/a> after a two-day search that began when police found her dead inside their home, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Spillers, 33, was found dead in her Alvarado home around 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, when police responded to a call regarding a welfare concern. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma, according to Alvarado police.<\/p>\n<p>Spillers was a science teacher at Alvarado High School, according to Alvarado ISD. In a letter to parents, the school district said Spillers taught there since 2022 and was a dedicated educator who loved her scholars and team.<\/p>\n<p>Counseling support was made available for students and educators on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Brandon Ashley, was arrested on Oct. 20 in Grimes County.<\/p>\n<p>Husband located 160 miles away near Houston<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 19, the Grimes County Sheriff&#8217;s Office received a report of a man, Ashley, trespassing at a home in Bedias, about 160 miles away from where Spillers was found.<\/p>\n<p>The 911 caller said Ashley was wearing shorts and no shirt and appeared to be experiencing a mental health episode. They also said there appeared to be a pistol in his pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Other residents in the area told GCSO that Ashley was knocking on doors earlier in the day, asking for a shirt. He was also reportedly avoiding the highway, saying there were &#8220;too many cops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputies patrolling the Bedias area weren&#8217;t able to locate Ashley but on the morning of Oct. 20, they received another call about a suspicious vehicle on a property in the area. Once that vehicle was located, police said it was believed to be stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Grimes County constable said he was told Ashley was seen at a convenience store in town. Ashley was detained at that convenience store shortly after, where he told police he hid a firearm nearby but refused to say where. A revolver was later located.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley is in the Grimes County Jail and will be transported to the Johnson County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Alvarado man accused of killing his wife, a beloved local teacher, was arrested about 160 miles away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,438,636,430,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-15382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-johnson-county","12":"tag-murder","13":"tag-north-texas","14":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}