{"id":1441590,"date":"2025-09-11T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1441590"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:09:32","slug":"arsonist-receives-40-years-after-man-found-dead-in-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1441590","title":{"rendered":"Arsonist receives 40 years after man found dead in fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-163112-e1757626328513-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1441591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-163112-e1757626328513-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-163112-e1757626328513-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-163112-e1757626328513.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u2013 A 23-year-old was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder after a man was found dead inside a burning Longview home in 2023, according to a report from our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>At around 1:15 a.m. on June 7, 2023, the Longview Fire Department responded to a structure fire at the 100 block of East Avalon Avenue. After firefighters extinguished the fire, they found 66-year-old Ronnie Moody of Longview dead inside.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Raymond Miller Jr. of Longview pleaded guilty to the incident on Thursday and was sentenced to 40 years for murder and 20 years for arson, to be served consecutively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 A 23-year-old was sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder after a man was found dead inside a burning Longview home in 2023, according to a report from our news partner KETK. At around 1:15 a.m. on June 7, 2023, the Longview Fire Department responded to a structure fire at the 100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1441590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arsonist receives 40 years after man found dead in fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1441611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-163112-e1757626328513-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 00:42:25","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\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-163112-e1757626328513-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441590","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=1441590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441893,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441590\/revisions\/1441893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1441611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}