{"id":811179,"date":"2019-08-19T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=811179"},"modified":"2019-08-20T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:26:58","slug":"texas-man-who-killed-boy-to-make-room-in-house-gets-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=811179","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Killed Boy to Make Room in House Gets Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/08\/bobby-woods-jr-e1566293238531-127x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-811181\" \/>LUFKIN (AP) &#8212; Prosecutors say a Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the drowning death of his girlfriend&#8217;s 3-year-old nephew.   Authorities say Bobby Woods Jr. told police that his girlfriend, Billie Jean Cuttler, was pregnant and that he wanted 3-year-old Mason Cuttler dead because they needed space at the home where several families lived. An attorney later said Cuttler wasn&#8217;t pregnant. Woods was convicted Friday of capital murder for the 2015 death. Investigators say Woods pushed Mason into a pond near Lufkin, 110 miles northeast of Houston. Cuttler, who faced competency issues, pleaded guilty to conspiracy commit murder in exchange for a 20-year prison term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN (AP) &#8212; Prosecutors say a Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the drowning death of his girlfriend&#8217;s 3-year-old nephew. Authorities say Bobby Woods Jr. told police that his girlfriend, Billie Jean Cuttler, was pregnant and that he wanted 3-year-old Mason Cuttler dead because they needed space at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=811179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Who Killed Boy to Make Room in House Gets Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":811181,"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-811179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 12:47:21","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\/811179","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811276,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811179\/revisions\/811276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/811181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}