{"id":110179,"date":"2011-07-21T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=110179"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:36:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:36:32","slug":"convicted-killer-fighting-adoption-of-his-two-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=110179","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Killer Reaches Adoption Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=110238\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/07\/Kyle-Barnhill-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kyle Barnhill\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-110238\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNACOGDOCHES (AP) \u2013 A Nacogdoches man convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to life in prison agrees to terminate the parental rights of his two daughters. Kyle Barnhill, 47, worked out an agreement on a settlement to terminate his rights Wednesday in a Nacogdoches courtroom. A family not related to Barnhill has cared for the girls and has been seeking to adopt them. The girls were ages 10 and 3 at the time of the slaying. Melissa Barnhill was shot through a kitchen window in March 2009. The girls were in the house but not injured. Kyle Barnhill was caught 500 miles away, in the Eagle Pass area. A jury in October 2009 convicted Barnhill of murder and sentenced him to life behind bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACOGDOCHES (AP) \u2013 A Nacogdoches man convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to life in prison agrees to terminate the parental rights of his two daughters. Kyle Barnhill, 47, worked out an agreement on a settlement to terminate his rights Wednesday in a Nacogdoches courtroom. A family not related to Barnhill has cared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=110179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Convicted Killer Reaches Adoption Settlement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 02:43:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110179","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110179"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110696,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110179\/revisions\/110696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}