{"id":332501,"date":"2026-06-11T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332501\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:27:10","slug":"mans-body-found-near-marker-49-in-suspected-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332501\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s body found near Marker 49 in suspected drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drowning is the suspected cause of death in the case of a man whose body was found lying on the beach early on the morning of Monday, June 8. The person has been identified as Gary Butler, 57, of Franklin, Tenn., according to Lt. Joseph Rivas, a detective with the Port Aransas Police Department. Butler\u2019s body was discovered lying at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/articles\/mans-body-found-near-marker-49-in-suspected-drowning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/register\/single-issue-purchase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase Single Issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full version of this story will be available to all readers after\u00a02 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Full versions of news stories from the most recent 2 weeks are available to online subscribers only. Access to full versions of news stories from issues older than 2 weeks are available to all readers for free in our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portasouthjettywp.our-hometown.com\/port-aransas-south-jetty-archives\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archive<\/a>\u00a0of all issues.<\/p>\n<p>Not an online subscriber yet?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portasouthjettywp.our-hometown.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Here<\/a><br \/>Purchase this online single issue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portasouthjetty.com\/register\/single-issue-purchase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drowning is the suspected cause of death in the case of a man whose body was found lying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-332501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332501","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=332501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}