{"id":293269,"date":"2026-05-14T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293269\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:29:09","slug":"mexican-national-accused-of-murdering-two-women-in-texas-six-years-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293269\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican national accused of murdering two women in Texas six years apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              Brooke Taylor reports from Dallas on Luis Fernando Benitez-Gonzalez, an illegal migrant from Mexico, accused of brutally murdering two women in Austin and Bastrop County, Texas, six years apart. DNA evidence and selfies led to his arrest.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Brooke Taylor reports on Luis Fernando Benitez-Gonzalez, an illegal migrant from Mexico, accused of murdering two women in Texas in 2018 and 2024. DNA evidence and a woman who fought off an aggravated assault, grabbing Benitez-Gonzalez&#8217;s phone, helped identify him. Austin Police are now reviewing other unsolved cases to determine if there are more victims, suggesting a potential serial killer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooke Taylor reports from Dallas on Luis Fernando Benitez-Gonzalez, an illegal migrant from Mexico, accused of brutally murdering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-293269","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\/293269","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=293269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}