{"id":1374560,"date":"2024-12-06T01:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T07:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1374560"},"modified":"2024-12-10T03:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T09:37:01","slug":"father-admits-cremating-sons-body-after-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1374560","title":{"rendered":"Father admits cremating son\u2019s body after murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-06_014417-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1374561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-06_014417-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-06_014417.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>HEMPHILL \u2014 A Texas father has been arrested after he confessed to killing his son and \u201ccremating\u201d him. According to our news partner KETK, a Sabine County deputy was contacted by Michael C. Howard who said he had \u201caccidentally\u201d shot his son, Mark Randall Howard, who he had mistaken for an intruder on his property the night before. The sheriff\u2019s office said Mark had down syndrome. Michael allegedly told officials he had taken his son\u2019s body in the \u201cfront-loading bucket of a backhoe tractor and carried it to a remote area on his property and placed the body on a wood\/trash pile which had been previously set up and then \u2018cremated\u2019 his son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the State Bar of Texas, Michael is a lawyer and had a private law practice out of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>When authorities arrived to the Howard\u2019s property at 2505 Mount Sinai Road near Fairmount, Michael told deputies the murder was a \u201chorrible accident.\u201d He also showed deputies the shotgun that he claimed to have used. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEMPHILL \u2014 A Texas father has been arrested after he confessed to killing his son and \u201ccremating\u201d him. According to our news partner KETK, a Sabine County deputy was contacted by Michael C. Howard who said he had \u201caccidentally\u201d shot his son, Mark Randall Howard, who he had mistaken for an intruder on his property &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1374560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Father admits cremating son\u2019s body after murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1374562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-06_014417-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:49:40","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\/12\/2024-12-06_014417-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374560","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=1374560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374563,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374560\/revisions\/1374563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}