{"id":422045,"date":"2026-08-31T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422045\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:37:09","slug":"92-year-old-man-accused-of-attacking-killing-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422045\/","title":{"rendered":"92-year-old man accused of attacking, killing his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GOODYEAR, Ariz. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/08\/29\/92-year-old-goodyear-man-who-allegedly-killed-wife-booked-into-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/08\/29\/92-year-old-goodyear-man-who-allegedly-killed-wife-booked-into-jail\/\">AZFamily<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; A 92-year-old Arizona man accused of attacking and killing his wife had been showing signs of dementia, his family says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">John Biggs Jr., 92, was arrested Monday after his wife, 89-year-old Jane Biggs, was found dead inside their home, according to the Goodyear Police Department. He is facing charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"John Biggs Jr., 92, is facing charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault in...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/B7DD3GU3DFBPXM567OVLPDGVMM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>John Biggs Jr., 92, is facing charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault in connection to the death of his wife.(AZFamily\/Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say the suspect\u2019s adult son told them he traveled from out of state to check on his father, who, he said, had been showing signs of dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The son found Jane Biggs dead in the main bedroom at the couple\u2019s Goodyear home, police say. She had signs that she had been attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">John Biggs was booked into jail after being medically cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AZFamily\/Gray News) &#8211; A 92-year-old Arizona man accused of attacking and killing his wife had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6550,9064,146842,146843,168,170,169,146844,146845],"class_list":["post-422045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-arizona","tag-dementia","tag-elderly-man-accused-of-killing-wife","tag-john-biggs-jr","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-wife-attacked-and-killed","tag-wife-found-dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422045","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=422045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}