{"id":1409143,"date":"2025-05-02T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1409143"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:05:59","slug":"crockett-authorities-search-for-missing-16-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1409143","title":{"rendered":"Houston County authorities search for 16-year-old&#8217;s killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: The Crockett Police Department has recovered the body of a missing teenager they believe to be Michael Ortiz.<\/strong> Police said they found the body Friday night on County Road 4020, near Box Creek, in Crockett.  The investigation is being treated as a homicide. The Houston County Sheriff\u2019s Office along with the Texas Rangers and Crockett Police Department are investigating the case. If you have information, you can contact 936-544-2862. Anonymous tips can also be left at 639TIPS.com.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/missingboyb-198x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1409144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/missingboyb-198x200.jpg 198w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/missingboyb.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>CROCKETT &#8211; The Crockett Police Department is searching for a missing 16-year-old last seen on Tuesday evening. According to our news partner KETK, Michael Martin Ortiz was  wearing black jogging pants and a black hoodie when he was last seen. If you have information on the location of  Michael Martin Ortiz, your asked to contact Crockett Police Department Detective Humberto Gonzalez by calling 936-544-2021 or emailing him at <a href=\"mailto:gonzalezh@crocketttexas.org\">gonzalezh@crocketttexas.org<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The Crockett Police Department has recovered the body of a missing teenager they believe to be Michael Ortiz. Police said they found the body Friday night on County Road 4020, near Box Creek, in Crockett. The investigation is being treated as a homicide. The Houston County Sheriff\u2019s Office along with the Texas Rangers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1409143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Houston County authorities search for 16-year-old&#8217;s killer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1409147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/05\/missingboyb-198x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 11:57:06","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\/2025\/05\/missingboyb-198x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409143","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409232,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409143\/revisions\/1409232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}