{"id":74560,"date":"2026-06-07T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/arkansas-sheriffs-candidate-focused-on-family-after-dismissal-of-murder-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:05:12","slug":"arkansas-sheriffs-candidate-focused-on-family-after-dismissal-of-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/arkansas-sheriffs-candidate-focused-on-family-after-dismissal-of-murder-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas sheriff\u2019s candidate focused on \u2018family\u2019 after dismissal of murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Spencer never denied fatally shooting Michael Fosler, 67, the sexual abuser of his daughter, aged 13<\/p>\n<p>An Arkansas sheriff\u2019s candidate who was alleged to have killed his teenaged daughter\u2019s sexual abuser says he is focused on \u201cfamily and getting back to a normal life\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/05\/murder-charge-dismissed-arkansas-father\">the dismissal of a murder charge<\/a> filed against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful this chapter is closed,\u201d Aaron Spencer also said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1467105075215716&amp;set=pcb.1467105415215682\">a statement<\/a> after the dismissal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/07\/arkansas-sheriff-candidate-murder-charge-dismissal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Spencer never denied fatally shooting Michael Fosler, 67, the sexual abuser of his daughter, aged 13 An Arkansas sheriff\u2019s candidate who was alleged to have killed his teenaged daughter\u2019s sexual abuser says he is focused on \u201cfamily and getting back to a normal life\u201d after the dismissal of a murder charge filed against him. &#8230; <a title=\"Arkansas sheriff\u2019s candidate focused on \u2018family\u2019 after dismissal of murder charge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/arkansas-sheriffs-candidate-focused-on-family-after-dismissal-of-murder-charge\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arkansas sheriff\u2019s candidate focused on \u2018family\u2019 after dismissal of murder charge\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}