{"id":160691,"date":"2012-01-30T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160691"},"modified":"2012-01-31T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:15:18","slug":"lufkin-crime-stoppers-asks-for-help-in-death-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160691","title":{"rendered":"Lufkin Crime Stoppers Asks for Help in Death Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=160692\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/melodie_fay_sexton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"melodie_fay_sexton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-160692\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN \u2014 Crime Stoppers of Lufkin wants your help bringing to close the seven-month-long investigation into the death of Melodie Fay Sexton, 26, of Groves, Texas.  According to KETK, Melodie, &#8220;Puff&#8221; to family and friends, died Father`s Day 2011 in Lake Charmaine in Tyler County\u2019s Ivanhoe community, about ten miles south of Woodville.  At 12:59 p.m. on June 19, Tyler County Sheriff\u2019s Office personnel received a missing person report from Melodie\u2019s family; at that time, the family knew only that she had been missing for approximately twelve hours from the lake house where she and her three-year-old son were spending the weekend.  Three hours later, family members found Melodie\u2019s body in the lake, not far from the property\u2019s dock.<\/p>\n<p>While investigators have not uncovered evidence necessary to determine that criminal conduct led to Melodie\u2019s death, Crime Stoppers officials say suspicions remain that it was not the result of an accident.  Her family has from the beginning asserted that she was murdered pointing to abnormalities in her alleged actions prior to her death.<\/p>\n<p>If you can provide any information concerning the death of Melodie Fay Sexton, you&#8217;re asked to call Crime Stoppers of Lufkin at (936) 639-TIPS or use this link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipsubmit.com\/webtips.aspx?AgencyID=207&#038;L=E&#038;DSID=207&#038;Memo=Crime%20of%20the%20Week:%201\/30\/2012%20-%20Melodie%20Fay%20Sexton\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tipsubmit.com\/webtips.aspx?AgencyID=207&#038;L=E&#038;DSID=207&#038;Memo=Crime%20of%20the%20Week:%201\/30\/2012%20-%20Melodie%20Fay%20Sexton<\/a> &#8212; to submit an anonymous tip.  You never have to give your name and Crime Stoppers may pay a cash reward of up to $2,000 for information that leads to an arrest related to this investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN \u2014 Crime Stoppers of Lufkin wants your help bringing to close the seven-month-long investigation into the death of Melodie Fay Sexton, 26, of Groves, Texas. According to KETK, Melodie, &#8220;Puff&#8221; to family and friends, died Father`s Day 2011 in Lake Charmaine in Tyler County\u2019s Ivanhoe community, about ten miles south of Woodville. At 12:59 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lufkin Crime Stoppers Asks for Help in Death Probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 21:01:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160691","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160691"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161009,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160691\/revisions\/161009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}