{"id":96113,"date":"2011-05-25T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=96113"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T22:25:44","slug":"autopsy-8-year-old-east-texas-girl-killed-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=96113","title":{"rendered":"Autopsy: 8-Year-Old East Texas Girl Killed Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/05\/25\/autopsy-8-year-old-east-texas-girl-killed-herself\/anderson-county-sheriff-car\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/05\/anderson-county-sheriff-car-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"anderson-county-sheriff-car\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-96236\" \/><\/a>PALESTINE (AP) &#8211; A medical examiner has determined that the recent death of an 8-year-old East Texas girl was a suicide by hanging. Investigators had said the second-grader was found dead in a wooded area near her family&#8217;s home just northwest of Palestine the night of April 17.   Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor told the Palestine Herald-Press that he concurs with the finding by Dr. John A. Stash of the Southwest Texas Forensic Science Center in Tyler. Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace James Westley says he&#8217;s not ready to rule the death a suicide, and he has the final say under Texas law.  Taylor&#8217;s investigation and Stash&#8217;s autopsy concluded the girl died on her knees, leaning against baling wire tied around her neck and to a tree branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALESTINE (AP) &#8211; A medical examiner has determined that the recent death of an 8-year-old East Texas girl was a suicide by hanging. Investigators had said the second-grader was found dead in a wooded area near her family&#8217;s home just northwest of Palestine the night of April 17. Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor told the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=96113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autopsy: 8-Year-Old East Texas Girl Killed Herself<\/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-96113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 19:42:51","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\/96113","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=96113"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96508,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96113\/revisions\/96508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}