{"id":1298433,"date":"2024-02-16T14:36:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1298433"},"modified":"2024-02-18T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:47:37","slug":"gilmer-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-murder-of-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1298433","title":{"rendered":"Gilmer man sentenced to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/CaffeyMug-165x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1298439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/CaffeyMug-165x200.jpg 165w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/CaffeyMug-288x350.jpg 288w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/CaffeyMug-144x175.jpg 144w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/CaffeyMug.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/>UPSHUR COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd said that Michael Caffey was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the murder of his father Timothy Caffey. Byrd said that Timothy Caffey, 66, had taken his son Michael off the street in order to help him but that Michael reportedly started using methamphetamines and demanded money from his father. According to our news partner KETK, Timothy was murdered at his home in the Latch community on March 26 of 2023. Byrd said Michael was arrested the next day in Liberty City while wearing clothes reportedly covered in his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blood. Byrd thanked the Upshur County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office investigators Rob Bowen, Michael Barton and Linda Roberts, his investigator Jon Warren, citizens who provided information and the jury for bringing this case to a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPSHUR COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd said that Michael Caffey was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the murder of his father Timothy Caffey. Byrd said that Timothy Caffey, 66, had taken his son Michael off the street in order to help him but that Michael reportedly started using methamphetamines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1298433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gilmer man sentenced to life in prison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1298442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/CaffeyMug-165x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gilmer man sentenced to life in prison for murder of father","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 11:47:49","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\/2024\/02\/CaffeyMug-165x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Gilmer man sentenced to life in prison for murder of father","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298433","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298448,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298433\/revisions\/1298448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}