{"id":55899,"date":"2025-11-19T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55899\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:21:22","slug":"body-found-inside-cardboard-box-in-south-austin-victims-roommate-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55899\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found inside cardboard box in South Austin; victim&#8217;s roommate arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DECFF132017E5D6E55E642AD82CF88A4.jpg\" alt=\"Man arrested after roommate's body found in box\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/video\/1742700\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested after roommate&#8217;s body found in box<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">The Austin Police Department has arrested 24-year-old Aidan Hunt after the body of the man he was living with, 63-year-old Robert Wentworth, was found in a cardboard box near a bus stop in South Austin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A man was arrested and charged with murder after a victim was found inside a large cardboard box in South Austin.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Nov. 13, around 5:22 p.m., officers responded to a call about a body at 4107 Victory Dr.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">When officers arrived, they found the victim inside a large cardboard box behind a bus stop. The victim was later identified as 63-year-old Robert Wentworth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The investigation revealed that Wentworth was living with 24-year-old Aidan Hunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Hunt lived a couple yards away from where the victim was found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aiden-hunt.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A search warrant was issued at Hunt&#8217;s home where evidence related to the murder was found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Nov. 16, Hunt was arrested and charged with murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">You may submit your tip anonymously through the Capital Area Crime Stoppers Program by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/austintexas.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9a4c6da471&amp;id=0aad8738e2&amp;e=973bbdcdc5__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!xEGmqUcvmgpEsvEEdqDhv9ZUIMD75FcKTdil0xGeYdvZk9wArQHcY6Zqnrttc1-tSJmh6aHefsF8Es131X87AUxzKdq6BTd6%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or calling 512-472-8477.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Austin Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/south-austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man arrested after roommate&#8217;s body found in box The Austin Police Department has arrested 24-year-old Aidan Hunt after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,4522,394,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-55899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-south-austin","14":"tag-travis-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55899","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=55899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}