{"id":1505847,"date":"2026-05-12T03:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1505847"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:49:37","slug":"76-year-old-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1505847","title":{"rendered":"Missing man found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-05_104934-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1503983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-05_104934-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-05_104934-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-05_104934.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>WILLS POINT &#8211;  The Kaufman County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that 76-year-old Alfredo Chavez was found dead in a wooded area on Friday after he went missing from Wills Point on April 23. Chavez\u2019s body was found at around 11 a.m. on Friday in a heavily wooded area of Van Zandt County. Following his disappearance on April 23, the sheriff\u2019s office, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Game Wardens, Texas Department of Corrections search dogs and several nonprofit search and rescue organizations were brought together to search for Chavez but he wasn\u2019t found until several weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaufman County Sheriff\u2019s Office suspects no foul play in Chavez\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILLS POINT &#8211; The Kaufman County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that 76-year-old Alfredo Chavez was found dead in a wooded area on Friday after he went missing from Wills Point on April 23. Chavez\u2019s body was found at around 11 a.m. on Friday in a heavily wooded area of Van Zandt County. Following his disappearance on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1505847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missing man found dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1506129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-05_104934-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 09:48:19","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\/2026\/05\/2026-05-05_104934-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505847","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=1505847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506142,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505847\/revisions\/1506142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}