{"id":456253,"date":"2026-10-04T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456253\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:44:16","slug":"missing-colorado-womans-body-found-buried-behind-garage-in-texas-panhandle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456253\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Colorado woman’s body found buried behind garage in Texas panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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48-year-old Leonard Torres (Source: Potter County Sheriff’s Office) <\/p>\n

AMARILLO, Texas – A Colorado woman has been identified as the victim in a homicide investigation that led to the arrest of an Amarillo man and the recovery of a body buried behind a local property.<\/p>\n

Missing Colorado woman’s body found <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

The Amarillo Police Department identified the victim as 31-year-old Faith Smith of Colorado.<\/p>\n

According to police, the homicide unit received information on Oct. 1 indicating that a woman from Colorado had been shot and buried at an unknown location in Amarillo following an incident inside a vehicle. Investigators identified witnesses, confirmed the details, and pinpointed a suspect as 48-year-old Leonard Torres.<\/p>\n

Torres was found driving the suspected vehicle and taken into custody following a short chase. Further information led authorities to a burial site behind a detached garage under construction in the 3100 block of Orange Street. The Crime Scene Investigation Unit and homicide investigators recovered a body from the site, which has been sent for an autopsy.<\/p>\n

Torres was booked into the Potter County Detention Center on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The Amarillo Police Department’s Homicide Unit is actively investigating the case.<\/p>\n

The Source: Information in this case is from the Potter County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

Texas<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 48-year-old Leonard Torres (Source: Potter County Sheriff’s Office) AMARILLO, Texas – A Colorado woman has been identified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-456253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456253","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=456253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}