{"id":490022,"date":"2026-01-03T18:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:47:20","slug":"man-identified-after-missing-person-report-becomes-homicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490022\/","title":{"rendered":"Man identified after missing person report becomes homicide case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 24-year-old man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/12\/24\/fort-worth-police-arrest-man-after-missing-person-report-turns-into-homicide-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/12\/24\/fort-worth-police-arrest-man-after-missing-person-report-turns-into-homicide-case\/\">reported missing and turned into a homicide investigation<\/a> in Fort Worth has been identified. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On Dec. 22, authorities said they found John Richardson buried in a shallow grave in Denton County in the woods north of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__2UraD flex-none object-cover dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ZNHYUMFDLVCCZBORE5SYL7AX6Q.jpg\" alt=\"A Dallas police vehicle is seen,  Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025, in Dallas. \"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Fort Worth Police Department arrested Alexander James Nicholas, a 23-year-old accused of stabbing and killing Richardson, who was previously missing then later found dead, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">According to authorities, the missing person report was initially received on Dec. 2. Homicide investigators soon took over the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Investigators found the victim <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aware_the\/status\/2004042328583921805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aware_the\/status\/2004042328583921805\">left a party with Nicholas on Nov. 30. Nicholas<\/a> provided a statement to detectives, including the location where he claimed he left the victim alive, the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said they found evidence that contradicted Nicholas\u2019s statement and arrested him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThis investigation remains ongoing, and additional arrests are possible as further information is developed,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Nicholas\u2019s lawyer, Harmony Schuerman, declined to comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said Nicholas and the victim share a known acquaintance, but the statement did not provide a motive for what led to the slaying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man who was reported missing and turned into a homicide investigation in Fort Worth has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,4219,13431,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-490022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-denton","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115832661230768617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490022","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=490022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}