{"id":220251,"date":"2026-03-25T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220251\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:07:07","slug":"east-texas-man-accused-in-2018-killings-of-father-teen-daughter-indicted-for-capital-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220251\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas man accused in 2018 killings of father, teen daughter indicted for capital murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man accused in the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs19.tv\/article\/news\/local\/arrest-made-in-2018-cold-case\/501-cf403d38-dba8-49a3-9ac2-a1ff2de8dfa9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:double homicide;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;double homicide&quot;}\" class=\"link \">double homicide<\/a> of a Henderson County father and daughter has been indicted for capital murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lance Rains, 25, of Chandler, is accused capital murder in connection with the deaths of Gabriel and Beverly McBride. He has now been indicted by a Henderson County Grand Jury, according to the Henderson County District Attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Dec. 10, 2018, Gabe McBride and his 17-year-old daughter, Beverly, were shot and killed in Henderson County. Their deaths led to a years-long cold case until Rains&#8217; arrest in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to an arrest affidavit, in June 2024, Rains&#8217; friend told a Henderson County investigator that Rains was responsible for the murders, providing a detailed account of how he committed both killings. CBS19&#8217;s full report on the arrest affidavit can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs19.tv\/article\/news\/local\/east-texas-man-confessed-to-friend-2018-double-murder-police-say\/501-73b37096-0c47-40dd-8f18-158f6618b344\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rains currently resides in Henderson County jail on a $2 million bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused in the 2017 double homicide of a Henderson County father and daughter has been indicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85858,6885,8232,85857,85859,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-220251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-beverly-mcbride","tag-capital-murder","tag-henderson-county","tag-lance-rains","tag-man-accused","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220251","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=220251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}