{"id":38,"date":"2026-01-05T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/missing-mercer-county-man-found-dead-investigation-underway\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:15:48","slug":"missing-mercer-county-man-found-dead-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/missing-mercer-county-man-found-dead-investigation-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Mercer County Man Found Dead; Investigation Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An investigation is underway after the body of a Mercer County man who had been reported missing was found Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mercer County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirms the body of thirty-three-year-old Travis DeGraw has been located. Chief Deputy Major J.J. Ruble says the investigation is ongoing and no additional information is being released at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeGraw was reported missing after last being seen December 26th in the Nubbins Ridge area near Spanishburg. The AWARE Foundation, a Roanoke-based search organization, assisted in efforts to locate him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities say more information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after the body of a Mercer County man who had been reported missing was found Sunday. The Mercer County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirms the body of thirty-three-year-old Travis DeGraw has been located. Chief Deputy Major J.J. Ruble says the investigation is ongoing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.wvrcdev.com\/wjls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}