{"id":1093332,"date":"2022-01-27T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1093332"},"modified":"2022-01-28T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:46:49","slug":"man-sentenced-to-life-for-murder-of-gilmer-woman-at-florida-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1093332","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to life for murder of Gilmer woman at Florida beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1093334\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/Baker-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>MONROE COUNTY, Florida &#8212; An East Texas man was sentenced to life in prison on Jan. 20, for the murder of a Gilmer woman in Florida. According to our news partner KETK, Billy Baker, 52, was charged and found guilty for the second-degree murder of his girlfriend. On Aug. 2, 2017, Baker pulled Candice Cooper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body from the water on Smather\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Beach in Florida. He told police that he was swimming at a distance from Cooper when he noticed she was floating and unresponsive. The pair was in Florida on a vacation. An arrest warrant was served for Baker on Feb. 18, 2018. Baker pleaded not guilty on March 27, 2018 according to court documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROE COUNTY, Florida &#8212; An East Texas man was sentenced to life in prison on Jan. 20, for the murder of a Gilmer woman in Florida. According to our news partner KETK, Billy Baker, 52, was charged and found guilty for the second-degree murder of his girlfriend. On Aug. 2, 2017, Baker pulled Candice Cooper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1093332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man sentenced to life for murder of Gilmer woman at Florida beach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1093338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/Baker-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man sentenced to life for murder of Gilmer woman at Florida beach","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 09:13:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/Baker-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man sentenced to life for murder of Gilmer woman at Florida beach","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093337,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093332\/revisions\/1093337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1093338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}