{"id":17253,"date":"2012-12-30T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=17253"},"modified":"2012-12-30T00:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T05:57:50","slug":"human-remains-found-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/12\/human-remains-found-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Remains Found<br> in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/crime-stopper-tips-lead-to-arrests\/swf-crime-stoppers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11641\" title=\"SWF Crime Stoppers\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SWF-Crime-Stoppers-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SWF-Crime-Stoppers-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SWF-Crime-Stoppers.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Southwest Florida\u00a0Crime Stoppers is asking for the public\u2019s help on what has now been determined to be a homicide in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=17254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17254\" title=\"Gregory Mathews\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gregory-Mathews-145x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregory Mathews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In the early evening hours of Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24, a passerby in the area of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Hedgewood+Street+and+Meadow+Road&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ei=KL7fUOTmCIXY9AS_gYGoDw&amp;ved=0CAsQ_AUoAA\">Hedgewood Street\u00a0and\u00a0Meadow Road\u00a0<\/a>in Lehigh Acres discovered what he thought was human remains.\u00a0\u00a0 Since nightfall was approaching, the man decided to come back in the morning, during the light of day, to see if what he was seeing was indeed human.\u00a0 Upon his discovery on Christmas morning, he immediately contacted the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0 This evening, the man has been positively identified as Gregory Cameo Mathews, and his death has been ruled a homicide.\u00a0 No additional information on the murder is available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews was known to friends as \u201cBam,\u201d and investigators are hopeful the public can provide insight as to the events leading up to Mathews\u2019 murder.\u00a0 Anyone with information on the murder of Gregory Mathews is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).\u00a0 All callers will remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.\u00a0 Tips may also be made online at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a>\u00a0or by texting information to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida\u00a0Crime Stoppers is asking for the public\u2019s help on what has now been determined to be a homicide in Lehigh Acres. In the early evening hours of Christmas Eve,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}