{"id":248571,"date":"2026-04-14T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248571\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:21:07","slug":"6000-reward-offered-in-1997-cold-case-murder-of-ut-dallas-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248571\/","title":{"rendered":"$6,000 reward offered in 1997 cold case murder of UT Dallas student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/brent-alan-gutheinz-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; The Texas Department of Public Safety announced that North Texas is renewing efforts to solve the 1997 killing of a UT Dallas student whose burned body was found in rural Grayson County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">DPS officials announced an increased reward for information in the case.<\/p>\n<p> New reward offered for 1997 cold case lead  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/texas-dps.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">DPS officials announced on Monday that the reward for tips leading to an arrest in the death of 22-year-old Brent Alan Gutheinz has been raised to $6,000 for a limited time.<\/p>\n<p> Disappearance of Brent Alan Gutheinz <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Gutheinz\u2019s body was discovered June 22, 1997, along Squirrel Creek between Van Alstyne and Sherman, in Grayson County. Investigators said the Richardson resident was a senior at UT-Dallas and an avid bodybuilder, before he had last been seen on June 19. Gutheinz was allegedly running errands and going to the gym before going missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Financial motives and new forensic leads <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Authorities said Gutheinz had recently taken on significant debt while purchasing expensive items, including vehicles and electronics, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Family members told investigators he had become increasingly stressed about his finances in the months before his death.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Over the years, investigators have interviewed multiple witnesses, but no arrests have been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Nearly three decades later, the Grayson County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Texas Rangers said they are pursuing additional forensic testing and continuing to investigate the case.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials believe members of the community may have key information about Gutheinz\u2019s financial transactions or possible connections to Grayson County that could help identify those responsible.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The case is part of the Texas Rangers\u2019 Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program. Texas Crime Stoppers is offering the increased reward for information submitted before the next featured case is announced.<\/p>\n<p> How to submit a tip to Crime Stoppers <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online through the Texas Department of Public Safety website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by Texas DPS.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas &#8211; The Texas Department of Public Safety announced that North Texas is renewing efforts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1046,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":["post-248571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248571","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=248571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}