{"id":5743,"date":"2023-03-26T05:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T05:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02bafe660000243e"},"modified":"2023-03-26T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T05:49:05","slug":"missing-mom-and-daughter-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/missing-mom-and-daughter-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"DOUBLE HOMICIDE, MISSING MOM AND DAUGHTER FOUND DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 22, 2023 the bodies of 27-year-old Meshay Melendez and her daughter 7-year-old Layla Stewart were found dead in Washougal, Washington. This case is being investigated as a double murder.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/landscape-4275618_960_720.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meshay and Layla were last seen on the morning of March 12, 2023. In fact, a car that belonged to Meshay was found near the Vancouver Mall.<\/p>\n<p>The dead bodies were discovered after a 911 caller reported that \u201ctwo life sized mannequins\u201d were seen off the road and down an embankment in a wooded area with thick brush.<\/p>\n<p> The cause of death is not known but the medical examiner is conducting an autopsy.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p> On March 19th, police arrested Meshay&#8217;s ex-boyfriend Kirkland Warren, a person of interest in the disappearance. He is facing charges of tampering with a witness, violation of domestic violence orders, and possession of a firearm. <\/p>\n<p>In December 2022 Kirkland was accused of shooting at Meshay at her apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little girl and her mom were found dead in a wooded area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[445,490,20,82,179,61,62,361,360,14,19,472,178,569,568,219,215,216,57,83,53,116,176,182,180,520],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-dead","tag-daughter","tag-dead","tag-dead-body","tag-dead-in-woods","tag-domestic-disturbance","tag-domestic-violence","tag-double-homicide","tag-double-murder","tag-female-victim","tag-found-dead","tag-little-girl","tag-missing","tag-missing-children","tag-missing-kids","tag-mom","tag-mother","tag-mother-dead","tag-murder","tag-parents","tag-shooting-domestic-violence","tag-side-of-road","tag-skeleton-in-woods","tag-wooded-area","tag-woods","tag-young-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}