{"id":376241,"date":"2026-07-17T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:54:09","slug":"fort-worth-man-charged-with-capital-murder-in-deaths-of-wife-and-mother-in-law-azle-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376241\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man charged with capital murder in deaths of wife and mother-in-law, Azle police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth man<\/a> is in custody and faces two counts of capital murder in the deaths of his wife and mother-in-law, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/parker-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Azle Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/murder.png#.png\" alt=\"murder.png \" height=\"754\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Joseph Gordon, 64, of Fort Worth \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Azle Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Gordon, 64, was taken into custody Thursday by Texas Rangers after investigators used Flock camera data and evidence collected at the crime scene to identify him, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>A Flock camera reads license plates and helps police identify vehicles that may be connected to crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and firefighters responded to a welfare check at a home in the 200 block of Stewart Bend Court at about 9:30 a.m. and found two women dead from apparent gunshot wounds, police said. The victims were identified as a mother and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Azle police investigators and Texas Rangers later determined Gordon was responsible for the killings of his wife and mother-in-law, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday evening, Gordon was being processed into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/parker-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Parker County Jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing, and authorities have not released additional information.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas said it will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth man is in custody and faces two counts of capital murder in the deaths of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6885,116,118,117,430,7812,122,27],"class_list":["post-376241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-capital-murder","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-north-texas","tag-parker-county","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376241","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=376241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}