{"id":278954,"date":"2026-05-05T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278954\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:46:07","slug":"elderly-couple-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-north-texas-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278954\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly couple dead in apparent murder-suicide, North Texas police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burleson police say the incident happened Monday afternoon at a home on Pin Cushion Trail.<\/p>\n<p>BURLESON, Texas \u2014 An elderly couple is dead after a murder-suicide incident Monday afternoon, according to Burleson Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say at 3:30 p.m. the Burleson Public Safety Communications team got a 911 call from a man saying that he killed his wife and was planning to take his own life at their home in the 300 block of Pin Cushion Trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say officers went to the home and tried to contact the man. Police say after several failed attempts, they entered the home at 4:35 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say a drone was sent into the home where officers found the bodies of a man and woman in their 80s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burleson police say the investigation is ongoing, but assure there is no threat to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burleson police say the incident happened Monday afternoon at a home on Pin Cushion Trail. BURLESON, Texas \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-278954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278954","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=278954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}