{"id":26550,"date":"2026-11-05T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/?p=26550"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:47:40","slug":"elusive-murder-suspect-falls-victim-to-detectives-chewing-gum-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/05\/elusive-murder-suspect-falls-victim-to-detectives-chewing-gum-sting\/","title":{"rendered":"Elusive murder suspect falls victim to detectives,&#8217; chewing gum sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A detective from Everett, Washington, linked two cold case killings to a known predator. Needing fresh DNA to charge him, she helped devise a clever undercover sting using chewing gum to crack the case. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/judy-weaver-susan-vesey-washington-cold-case-murders-mitchell-gaff-chewing-gum-dna-48-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detective from Everett, Washington, linked two cold case killings to a known predator. Needing fresh DNA to charge him, she helped devise a clever undercover sting using chewing gum to crack the case. Go to story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2602],"class_list":["post-26550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26551,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions\/26551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}