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Lehigh
Police & Fire
COLD CASE: PA Woman Disappeared Without A Trace 20 Years Ago, State Police Say COLD CASE: PA Woman Disappeared Without A Trace 20 Years Ago, State Police Say
Cold CASE: PA Woman Disappeared Without A Trace 20 Years Ago, State Police Say On Feb. 11, 2004, Phylicia Albina Thomas got back from work around 11:30 p.m. The 22-year-old had finished her shift at the Pump-N-Pantry before making her way to her Lake Township, Luzerne County home, according to Pennsylvania State Police.  Thomas went outside briefly after getting home but never made it back inside. She has not been seen or heard from since, troopers say.  Today, Phylicia Thomas would be 42 years old.  Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers She was 5-foot-6 and 110 pounds with light brown hair and blue eyes. When she was last seen, Thomas was wearing a blue…

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by Mac Bullock
Berks
Police & Fire
Skull Found In Berks Pond Was That Of 2004 Attempted Murder Suspect, Officials Say Skull Found In Berks Pond Was That Of 2004 Attempted Murder Suspect, Officials Say
Skull Found In Berks Pond Was That Of 2004 Attempted Murder Suspect, Officials Say A human skull discovered in an Amity Township pond has been identified as belonging to a missing attempted murder suspect, Berks County prosecutors say.  The skull was found by a child in a body of water near Pine Lane in April 2022, the District Attorney's Office wrote in a release Wednesday, Jan. 31. Two follow-up searches of the pond turned up no other human remains, authorities said.  Investigators believed the skull was that of Roger Hart, a former Pottstown resident who went missing in 2004 after he was charged with trying to kill his wife at their home. Hart fled the s…

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by Mac Bullock
Stafford
Police & Fire
Skeletal Remains Found In Sposylvania ID'd As Missing NY Man Terrence Smith Skeletal Remains Found In Sposylvania ID'd As Missing NY Man Terrence Smith
Skeletal Remains Found In Sposylvania ID'd As Missing NY Man Terrence Smith Skeletal remains found in the Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania area have been identified as those of a man missing since October. Terrence Darryl Smith, 33, of New York, was reported missing on Nov. 1, while visiting a friend in the area on Oct. 28, the Spostylvania County Sheriff's Office announced. With persistence from his family, the female acquaintance he had been visiting reported him missing.  Human remains in an advanced stage of decomposition found on Nov. 16, not far from the female friend's home at the Timber Ridge Townhouse, have been positively identified as Smith's, authoriti…

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by Cecilia Levine
Northampton
News
COLD CASE: $5,000 Reward Offered In Scranton Woman's Sudden Disappearance COLD CASE: $5,000 Reward Offered In Scranton Woman's Sudden Disappearance
Cold CASE: $5,000 Reward Offered In Scranton Woman's Sudden Disappearance Forty-five years after a Scranton woman vanished, Pennsylvania State Police are on the case.  Authorities say Joanne Williams was 22 years old the last time she was seen on December 7, 1978.  Williams left her East Gibson Street home that night to attend a dance class at a studio in Chinchilla some six miles away, according to investigators. She left the studio around 10 p.m. and was never seen again.  Police said they found her car, a red 1977 Datsun 200 SX with white racing stripes, about a week later, unlocked and abandoned across town at the intersection of&nbs…

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by Mac Bullock
Dauphin
News
2 Sets Of Human Remains Found On The Same Afternoon In Separate PA Woods: Authorities 2 Sets Of Human Remains Found On The Same Afternoon In Separate PA Woods: Authorities
2 Sets Of Human Remains Found On The Same Afternoon In Separate PA Woods: Authorities Two bodies where found separately in wooded area of Pennsylvania in the afternoon on Sunday, March 19, 2023, authorities say. The first body was found in the Harrisburg area, in the 1300 block of Crooked Hill Road near the US Postal Service shipping and sorting hub close to Elmerton Road by the Farm Show Complex, authorities explained.  The reported of "human remains" was called into the Susquehanna Township Police around 1:30 p.m. and officers, the Dauphin County Coroner's Office, and the Dauphin County Forensics Unit began to investigate the incident. No further details on that inci…

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by Jillian Pikora
Capital District
News
'Dreaded This Day': Body Found In River ID'd As Missing Schenectady Teen Samantha Humphrey 'Dreaded This Day': Body Found In River ID'd As Missing Schenectady Teen Samantha Humphrey
'Dreaded This Day': Body Found In River ID'd As Missing Schenectady Teen Samantha Humphrey The search for a missing 14-year-old girl from upstate New York has come to a tragic ending after the teen’s body was pulled from a river not far from where she disappeared months earlier, authorities said. In an update Monday, Feb. 27, Schenectady Police confirmed that a body found in the city’s Mohawk River on Wednesday, Feb. 22 is that of Samantha Humphrey. Earlier Report: New Update: Body Found In River Where 14-Year-Old Schenectady Girl Disappeared Months Ago The Schenectady High School student’s body was found near Riverside Park, where she had last been seen alive at around 11:30 …

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by Michael Mashburn
York
Obituaries
Human Remains Found In Steelton ID'd As Missing Dad Human Remains Found In Steelton ID'd As Missing Dad
Human Remains Found In Steelton ID'd As Missing Dad A week after human remains were found in central Pennsylvania, they have been identified as a man who had been missing for nearly a year, authorities say. Goldie Smith, 38, of the 300 block of Swatara Street, Steelton, had been missing since 7 a.m. Monday, September 6, 2021, according to Steelton Borough Police. Smith had last been seen in the 500 block of North 2nd Street when police issued his missing persons alert on Friday, September 10, 2021. His decomposed body was found "in a wooded area behind 814 North Front Street in Steelton," at 2:58 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, according to Da…

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by Jillian Pikora
Montgomery MD
Police & Fire
Cold Case Killing Of Maryland's Leslie Jennings Remains Open Investigation Cold Case Killing Of Maryland's Leslie Jennings Remains Open Investigation
Cold Case Killing Of Maryland's Leslie Jennings Remains Open Investigation Monday, May 2 marked 21 years since Leslie Preer, 50, was found slain in her Montgomery County home.  Detectives however, have never stopped investigating the murder — and won't untl they have answers, they said. Preer's husband and went to check on her when she failed to show up to work that fateful day in 2001. Her blood was found in the foyer, and her coworker called the police to the Chevy Chase home on the 4800 block of Drummond Avenue around 11:47 a.m., reported the Washington Post.  Leslie was found dead inside of the residence with apparent trauma to her body. T…

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by Annie DeVoe
Brookfield
Police & Fire
Skeletal Remains Found In Wooded Area In CT ID'd As 20-Year-Old Woman Skeletal Remains Found In Wooded Area In CT ID'd As 20-Year-Old Woman
Skeletal Remains Found In Wooded Area In CT ID'd As 20-Year-Old Woman Skeletal remains found in a wooded area in northern Connecticut have been identified as a 20-year-old woman, according to state police. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the remains found in Litchfield County in December as Brianna Beam, according to an announcement from Connecticut State Police on Thursday, Feb. 17. Beam was known to have ties to the Waterbury, Thomaston, and Bristol areas, and the State of Rhode Island, police said. Her remains were found on Sunday, Dec. 19, off Campville Road on the Harwinton/Northfield town line, State Police said. The investiga…

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by Nicole Valinote
Nassau
Police & Fire
Police ID Woman Found Dead In Submerged Vehicle On Long Island Police ID Woman Found Dead In Submerged Vehicle On Long Island
Police ID Woman Found Dead In Submerged Vehicle On Long Island Police on Long Island have identified a woman whose body was found submerged inside a vehicle at an area beach. The body of Kathleen Minogue, age 56, of Port Jefferson Station, was discovered around 8:25 a.m. on Tuesday, June 29, near the boat ramps of Iron Pier Beach in Riverhead. According to Riverhead Police, a patrol officer who responded to the call swam to the submerged vehicle a found the Minogue dead inside.  Original story - Woman Found Dead In Submerged Car At Popular Long Island Beach, Police Say Police are investigating the incident and ask that anyone with informati…

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by Kathy Reakes
Bucks
Police & Fire
Remains Found In Bensalem In 1988 ID's As Missing Pregnant Teen Lisa Todd Remains Found In Bensalem In 1988 ID's As Missing Pregnant Teen Lisa Todd
Remains Found In Bensalem In 1988 ID's As Missing Pregnant Teen Lisa Todd An ongoing investigation determined that skeletal remains found at the old Publicker Distillery in Bensalem in 1988 are those of a 17-year-old woman reported missing three years prior, authorities said. Philadelphia's Lisa Todd was reported missing in October 1985. Three years later, remains were found in a well that used to be the Publicker Distillery along State Road in Bensalem, police confirmed. The remains were unidentified up until two months ago, when investigators extracted DNA from them, linking Todd to her family tree. Bensalem Police Det. Chris McMullin said he was onl…

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by Nicole Acosta
Greenwich
Police & Fire
Greenwich Police Still Searching For Clues In Death Of Baby Boy Greenwich Police Still Searching For Clues In Death Of Baby Boy
Greenwich Police Still Searching For Clues In Death Of Baby Boy Greenwich Police have issued a new call for public assistance in their search for clues in the unsolved death of a baby boy on May 16, 1986. The boy, who investigators refer to as Baby John, was found dead in the dumpster of an apartment building on Mason Street in downtown Greenwich, police say. Medical examiners determined that Baby John was killed shortly after he was born. The boy would have been 33 years old this week, according to police. The State of Connecticut is offering a $20,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the responsible party. Greenwich …

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by Valerie Musson