{"id":229958,"date":"2026-04-01T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:59:23","slug":"body-found-after-texas-brush-fire-was-bound-and-wrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229958\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after Texas brush fire was bound and wrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body found burning in a ditch on the East Side had been bound and wrapped in layers of material.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters alerted police to the discovery after a brush fire\u00a0about 7:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1500 block of Rigsby Avenue, according to a San Antonio police report. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man, listed as \u201cJon Doe,\u201d was found lying on his left side and had been wrapped in what appeared to be a jacket and a shower curtain. His hands appeared to be bound, and multiple ropes and a plastic tote were found nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Fire personnel pronounced the man dead at 7:44 a.m., according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the condition of the body and indications of possible foul play, homicide detectives were called to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report lists the case as a murder, though a cause of death and the man\u2019s identity had not been released as of the initial report.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body found burning in a ditch on the East Side had been bound and wrapped in layers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-229958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229958","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=229958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}