{"id":476762,"date":"2025-12-28T08:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:59:42","slug":"fort-worth-missing-person-found-buried-in-shallow-grave-suspect-arrested-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476762\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth missing person found buried in shallow grave, suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth police arrested 23-year-old Alexander James Nicholas for murder after finding a missing person\u2019s body in a shallow grave on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Though Nicholas claimed he dropped the victim off safely on Nov. 30, detectives found evidence that allegedly contradicts his story.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities have not yet released any information about the victim&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; Fort Worth police arrested a murder suspect after finding the body of a missing person buried in a shallow grave just days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The backstory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth police said the victim was reported missing in late November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators determined the unnamed person was last seen on Nov. 30 after leaving a party with 23-year-old Alexander James Nicholas. The two reportedly have a common acquaintance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When questioned, Nicholas told investigators he dropped the victim off at another location that night. He claimed the person was alive at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What&#8217;s new<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday, homicide detectives located the victim\u2019s body in a shallow grave in a wooded area of north Fort Worth in Denton County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said there were signs of foul play, and the missing person is now considered to be the victim of a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators also located evidence that reportedly contradicts Nicholas\u2019s statements. That\u2019s why he was arrested and charged with murder, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More arrests are possible as the investigation continues, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we don&#8217;t know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth police still haven\u2019t released any information about the victim. We don\u2019t know if they are male or female, and no name has been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will reportedly determine that person\u2019s official cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The information in this story comes from the Fort Worth Police Department and an interview with Fort Worth Police Department spokesman Tracy Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Fort Worth police arrested 23-year-old Alexander James Nicholas for murder after finding a missing person\u2019s body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[215938,5229,7371,26564,7372,155450,112559,5425,24659,160324,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-476762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-alexander-nicholas","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-police","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-homicide-detectives","14":"tag-james-nicholas","15":"tag-missing-person","16":"tag-person","17":"tag-shallow-grave","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115796375150554890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476762","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=476762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}