{"id":267314,"date":"2025-09-30T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267314\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:02:18","slug":"body-found-in-tarrant-countys-big-fossil-creek-identified-as-67-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267314\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Tarrant County\u2019s Big Fossil Creek identified as 67-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A body that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/body-pulled-from-big-fossil-creek-in-tarrant-county-officials-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/body-pulled-from-big-fossil-creek-in-tarrant-county-officials-say\/\">pulled from Big Fossil Creek<\/a> in Tarrant County in September has been identified as a 67-year-old man, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On Sept. 22, Walter Duane Hartman was spotted in the creek just under Northeast Loop 820 around 5:11 p.m. by a pedestrian, according to Haltom City police and the Tarrant County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers were able to access the waterway from North Park, where they found his body and brought him to shore, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">At the time, police said there were no apparent signs of foul play. The medical examiner\u2019s report does not provide a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body that was pulled from Big Fossil Creek in Tarrant County in September has been identified as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7712,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-267314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas-fortworth","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}