{"id":60578,"date":"2010-12-22T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=60578"},"modified":"2010-12-23T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T15:47:30","slug":"murder-suicide-confirmed-in-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=60578","title":{"rendered":"Murder-Suicide Confirmed in Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=60570\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60570\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/12\/jb-PIC.1292978153-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jb PIC.1292978153\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-60570\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8211; The Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is now confirming that a Pine Springs couple&#8217;s weekend deaths were a murder-suicide.  Police say 68-year-old Billy Hays shot his wife, 71-year-old Bonnie Hays, before turning the gun on himself on Sunday.    Monday afternoon, police responded to a 911 call from the couple&#8217;s son &#8212; and found their bodies.   Sheriff J.B. Smith tells KETK it&#8217;ll be at least six months before forensics come back.  Authorities are still looking for a motive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is now confirming that a Pine Springs couple&#8217;s weekend deaths were a murder-suicide. Police say 68-year-old Billy Hays shot his wife, 71-year-old Bonnie Hays, before turning the gun on himself on Sunday. Monday afternoon, police responded to a 911 call from the couple&#8217;s son &#8212; and found their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=60578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murder-Suicide Confirmed in Deaths<\/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-60578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 20:55:18","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\/60578","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=60578"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60846,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions\/60846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}