{"id":8565,"date":"2025-10-17T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8565\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:11:06","slug":"wife-of-former-texas-house-speaker-joe-straus-iii-reported-missing-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8565\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus III reported missing Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TERRELL HILLS, Texas &#8211; A search for the wife of Joe Straus III, the former speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, is intensifying after she went missing Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>Terrell Hills Police Department said Julie Straus, 64, was last seen just after 6:30 p.m. at a home off Geneseo Road near Broadway. <\/p>\n<p>Julie is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs around 140 pounds with black hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a black sweater, black leggings, and black and white tennis shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Straus III was the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019. <\/p>\n<p>If you have any information on Julie&#8217;s whereabouts, call the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 315-8897.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TERRELL HILLS, Texas &#8211; A search for the wife of Joe Straus III, the former speaker of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8092,8091,3831,672,8094,8093,27,29,2332,28],"class_list":["post-8565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-joe-straus","tag-julie-straus","tag-missing-person","tag-police","tag-search","tag-terrell-hills","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-house","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565","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=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}