{"id":3290,"date":"2010-11-18T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2010-11-18T19:31:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T03:31:41","slug":"morton-homicide-suspect-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3290","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Morton homicide suspect pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211;\u00a0 The 20-year-old accused of killing Morton teenager Austin King pleaded not guilty today in Lewis County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3294\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.1110.silverthorne.mug_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3294\" title=\"Jack Silverthorne mug\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/2010.1110.silverthorne.mug_2.jpg\" alt=\"2010.1110.silverthorne.mug_2\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack A. Silverthorne<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jack Arnold Silverthorne, of Renton, was charged last week with\u00a0 first-degree murder and remains held on $2 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old vanished from his family&#8217;s home in the Tilton River Mobile Home Park early on June 23 and was the subject of a month-long search headed up by volunteers. His body was found some 10 miles away off a logging road outside Morton. His skull was cracked.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe Silverthorne took Austin up into the woods after a birthday party at Austin&#8217;s family home the night of June 22, and his motive was related to an attraction to a girl, the mother of Austin&#8217;s child, according to charging documents.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the case in &#8220;Morton homicide: Suspect had broken hand, victim had cracked skull&#8221; from Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010 by clicking <a title=\"&quot;Morton homicide: Suspect had broken hand, victim had cracked skull&quot; from Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3107http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211;\u00a0 The 20-year-old accused of killing Morton teenager Austin King pleaded not guilty today in Lewis County Superior Court. Jack Arnold Silverthorne, of Renton, was charged last week with\u00a0 first-degree murder and remains held on $2 million bail. The 16-year-old vanished from his family&#8217;s home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}