{"id":940710,"date":"2026-07-17T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/940710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:31:14","slug":"fort-worth-man-arrested-in-slayings-of-wife-mother-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/940710\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man arrested in slayings of wife, mother-in-law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth man was arrested Thursday in the killing of his wife and mother-in-law, according to a social media post from the Azle Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man, identified by police as Joseph Gordon, is being held at the Parker County Jail on two counts of capital murder, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Azle police responded about 9:30 Tuesday morning to the 200 block of Stuart Bend Court after receiving a report of a suspicious situation, officials said. Because of the circumstances, officers entered the home to check on the welfare of the residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Inside the home, they found the two women dead from apparent gunshot wounds, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office identified the women as 83-year-old Teresa Howe and 59-year-old Traci Gordon, according to online records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Using FLOCK cameras and evidence collected at the scene, investigators identified Joseph Gordon as the suspect, and the Texas Rangers arrested him, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth man was arrested Thursday in the killing of his wife and mother-in-law, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":940711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,378809,7371,7372,378808,7785,378810,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-940710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-azle-police-department","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-joseph-gordon","tag-mother-in-law","tag-stuart-bend-court","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940710","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=940710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}