{"id":833180,"date":"2026-05-30T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/833180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:45:34","slug":"judge-to-hear-testimony-on-whether-children-of-accused-killer-lee-gilley-must-return-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/833180\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge to hear testimony on whether children of accused killer Lee Gilley must return to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 A Harris County family court judge has not yet decided whether the young children of Lee Gilley and Christa Bauer will be required to return to Texas, as their father remains in custody in Italy after cutting off his ankle monitor and fleeing the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>PREVIOUS REPORT: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/21\/judge-delays-capital-murder-trial-of-lee-gilley-amid-extradition-limbo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harris County judge delays capital murder trial of Lee Gilley amid extradition limbo following recapture in Italy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Judge Angela Lancelin said she plans to hear testimony June 18 on whether it is in the children\u2019s best interest to remain in South Carolina with Bauer\u2019s parents. Their attorney argued the children are now established out of state. The judge also said she will allow attorneys for Gilley\u2019s brother to argue in mid-June that he and his wife should continue to have visitation with the children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Lancelin reiterated that she never ordered \u2014 or otherwise approved \u2014 the children leaving Texas in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The family court dispute unfolds as the criminal case against Gilley remains in limbo internationally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Gilley, 39, is accused in the October 2024 strangulation death of his pregnant wife, Bauer, and was out on bond when authorities say he removed his ankle monitor and fled to Italy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A Harris County judge recently delayed his capital murder trial because prosecutors are still working with the U.S. Department of Justice on a formal extradition request to Italy, and no new trial date has been set.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 A Harris County family court judge has not yet decided whether the young children of Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":833181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[341675,4219,6386,4345,303140,341674,358,3187],"class_list":["post-833180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-christa-bauer","tag-crime","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-lee-gilley","tag-lee-gilley-capital-murder-case","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116665721011574884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833180","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=833180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}