{"id":304335,"date":"2026-05-22T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304335\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:25:20","slug":"payne-springs-man-accused-of-murdering-father-arrested-in-dallas-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304335\/","title":{"rendered":"Payne Springs man accused of murdering father arrested in Dallas area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HENDERSON COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A Payne Springs man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/05\/12\/man-suspected-killing-father-henderson-county-home-remains-large\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/05\/12\/man-suspected-killing-father-henderson-county-home-remains-large\/\">killing his father<\/a> was arrested in the Dallas area, according to the Henderson County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The HCSO announced Ronny Medford, 63, of Payne Springs was arrested by U.S. Marshals in the Dallas area Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Medford has been wanted on an arrest warrant for murder in the death of his father, Johnny Medford, 84, since May 11.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Ronny Medford, 63, of Payne Springs\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RC5DVOEWORGD3MUFG2S4MWF6HQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Ronny Medford, 63, of Payne Springs(Henderson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Johnny Medford was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/05\/12\/payne-springs-man-wanted-questioning-after-homicide-his-home\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/05\/12\/payne-springs-man-wanted-questioning-after-homicide-his-home\/\">found dead at Ronny Medford\u2019s home<\/a> on Rush Road in the Golden Oaks subdivision of the Payne Springs, where police say they also found evidence indicating Ronny murdered his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is currently no word on when Ronny Medford is expected to be returned to Henderson County.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A Payne Springs man accused of killing his father was arrested in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,8232,110248,636,54946,110247],"class_list":["post-304335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-henderson-county","tag-johnny-medford","tag-murder","tag-murder-arrest","tag-ronny-medford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304335","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=304335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}