{"id":73524,"date":"2025-12-02T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73524\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:57:09","slug":"elderly-texas-couple-missing-since-thanksgiving-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73524\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Texas couple missing since Thanksgiving found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/missing-couple-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Authorities in New Mexico found the bodies of an elderly couple from Texas who had been missing since Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Carson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said 82-year-old Charles &#8220;Gary&#8221; Lightfoot and 81-year-old Linda Lightfoot were found dead on Tuesday in a rural area of New Mexico near Tucumcari.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">They were near their car in a pasture and are believed to have died from hypothermia, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7amarillo.com\/news\/local\/silver-alert-elderly-couple-missing-after-thanksgiving-trip-to-panhandle-texas-charles-lightfoot-linda-lightfoot-lubbock-toyoya-camry-license-plate-twn0925-carson-county-sheriffs-office-panhandle-police-department-new-mexico-state-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 in Amarillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;We would like to thank the public and all agencies involved. We would also like to offer condolences to the family and friends of the Lightfoots as this is a tragic event,&#8221; the Carson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on social media.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">A Silver Alert was issued last week for the Lightfoots.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The couple went missing in their silver 2024 Toyota Camry after visiting friends in Panhandle, Texas for the holiday. They left around 3 p.m. on Friday but never made it home to Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Authorities were worried about their safety because neither had a cellphone, and Gary was oxygen dependent.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Their car was also spotted on camera in Groom, Texas and then in Santa Rosa, New Mexico the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Carson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Texas DPS, and ABC 7 in Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Authorities in New Mexico found the bodies of an elderly couple from Texas who had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1046,2474,223,160,162,161,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-73524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-missing-persons","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73524","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=73524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}