{"id":54112,"date":"2025-11-18T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54112\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:30:09","slug":"man-arrested-in-austin-murder-after-victim-found-in-cardboard-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54112\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Austin murder after victim found in cardboard box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX) \u2014 Austin police have arrested a man in connection with a homicide that occurred Thursday evening on Victory Drive, according to the Austin Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police found Robert Wentworth dead inside a large cardboard box behind a bus stop at 4107 Victory Dr. around 5:22 p.m. Nov. 13. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators learned that Wentworth had been living with Aidan Hunt, 24, who lived just a few hundred yards from where the victim was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police searched Hunt\u2019s home and found evidence related to the murder. Hunt was charged with first-degree murder in Wentworth\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested Hunt Sunday on Lamar Boulevard without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Austin Police at 512-974-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program at austincrimestoppers.org or by calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX) \u2014 Austin police have arrested a man in connection with a homicide that occurred Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29897,132,134,133,29898],"class_list":["post-54112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-4107-victory-dr","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-lone-star-fugitive-task-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54112","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=54112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}