{"id":380236,"date":"2025-12-31T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380236\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:26:07","slug":"missing-montana-man-found-dead-in-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380236\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Montana man found dead in state park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>POCATELLO \u2014 Officials have reported that the missing Montana man who was believed to be in Idaho has been found dead at a local state park. <\/p>\n<p>Kee Ray Begay Jr., 53, was found deceased at Massacre Rocks State Park on Dec. 28, according to a news release from the Power County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is still ongoing, but no further information has been released. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/2025\/12\/missing-montana-man-pinged-in-southeastern-idaho\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED | Missing Montana man pinged in southeastern Idaho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office was assisted in the search for Begay by Power County Search and Rescue, Power County EMS, Massacre Rocks State Park, and Bingham County Search and Rescue. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Power County Sheriff\u2019s Office extends its condolences to the family of Mr. Begay,\u201d the release states. <\/p>\n<p>Begay last spoke to his wife on Dec. 21, 2025, and his cell phone pinged near Interstate 86 around milepost 28. He was last seen driving a black 2014 Dodge Avenger. <\/p>\n<p> \t  \t  \t  \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(&#8216;For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.&#8217;)?&gt;&amp;subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews&#8221; class=&#8221;fa-stack jDialog&#8221;&gt;  \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POCATELLO \u2014 Officials have reported that the missing Montana man who was believed to be in Idaho has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-380236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}