{"id":376600,"date":"2026-07-17T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376600\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:46:09","slug":"fort-worth-man-arrested-in-slayings-of-wife-mother-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376600\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man arrested in slayings of wife, mother-in-law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth man was arrested Thursday in the killing of his wife and mother-in-law, according to a social media post from the Azle Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man, identified by police as Joseph Gordon, is being held at the Parker County Jail on two counts of capital murder, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Azle police responded about 9:30 Tuesday morning to the 200 block of Stuart Bend Court after receiving a report of a suspicious situation, officials said. Because of the circumstances, officers entered the home to check on the welfare of the residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Inside the home, they found the two women dead from apparent gunshot wounds, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office identified the women as 83-year-old Teresa Howe and 59-year-old Traci Gordon, according to online records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Using FLOCK cameras and evidence collected at the scene, investigators identified Joseph Gordon as the suspect, and the Texas Rangers arrested him, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth man was arrested Thursday in the killing of his wife and mother-in-law, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133179,116,118,117,133178,133181,133180],"class_list":["post-376600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-azle-police-department","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-joseph-gordon","tag-mother-in-law","tag-stuart-bend-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376600","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=376600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}