{"id":394387,"date":"2026-08-01T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394387\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:55:13","slug":"suspect-in-fatal-dallas-rv-fire-arrested-in-galveston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394387\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in fatal Dallas RV fire arrested in Galveston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old man indicted in connection with a 2025 Dallas RV fire that killed a woman and her dog was arrested Thursday in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/cyclospora-cases-galveston-county-22363308.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galveston<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Grindberg, 63,\u00a0was arrested Thursday at his Galveston home, the Galveston Municipal Police Association said in a Facebook post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grindberg was arrested on a Dallas County capital murder warrant, according to the post. Galveston police detectives and Dallas police also executed a search warrant at Grindberg\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas County prosecutors accuse Grindberg of using an open flame to set the fatal fire and hiring DeAnthony Lewis and Lamont Richardson to kill 68-year-old Leslie Denise McBride for payment, according to court records obtained by the Houston Chronicle. McBride and her dog died in the Oct. 19, 2025, RV fire in East Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McBride, 68, died in an RV fire Oct. 19, 2025, in the 10300 block of Eastwood Drive, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/05\/woman-killed-in-dallas-rv-fire-last-month-identified\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The case was assigned to the 203rd Judicial District Court, according to court documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 63-year-old man indicted in connection with a 2025 Dallas RV fire that killed a woman and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-394387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394387","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=394387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}