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Troopers Identify Remains Found In Schuylkill County Troopers Identify Remains Found In Schuylkill County
Troopers Identify Remains Found In Schuylkill County The human remains discovered off a residential road in St. Clair Borough last spring belonged to a 60-year-old woman, according to state police.  Karen Rosemarie Rohrbach was identified after her DNA was submitted to PSP's Forensic Division, troopers said in a release Tuesday, Jan. 2.  Her cause of death was ruled natural causes and authorities said foul play is not suspected.  Rohrbach's remains were located near Fernwood Avenue last March 26, according to the release. 

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA
Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA Mindi Mebane Kassotis has been identified months after she was found dismembered at a hunting club in Georgia, and her husband has been arrested in Pennsylvania, authorities announced on Friday, May 12, 2023.  The 40-year-old was found strewn across three miles of the hunting club grounds in  Liberty and Mcintosh Counties on December 2, 2022, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation explained in the release. The following day the investigation into her identity began and on Jan. 5, 2023, the GBI announced that forensic analysis determined that her body had been placed in the field sinc…

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by Jillian Pikora
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'Boy In The Box' Could Be ID'd Next Week: Reports 'Boy In The Box' Could Be ID'd Next Week: Reports
'Boy In The Box' Could Be ID'd Next Week: Reports A boy who was well-groomed with a fresh haircut found dead in a box in 1957 in Philadelphia now has a name, multiple media outlets are reporting. And it's not just "The Boy in the Box" or "America's Unknown Child."  The boy's body was found in February 1957 stuffed in a bassinet box along Susquehanna Road. Retired Det. Sgt. Bob Kuhlmeier previously said that the cause of death was blunt force trauma, according to CBS3. According to CBS3, officials plan on releasing the name of the young victim sometime next week. A recent DNA sample linked the boy, between ages 4 and 6, to a family in De…

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by Cecilia Levine
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DNA Samples ID Victims Killed In 80 Car Pile-Up On I-81 DNA Samples ID Victims Killed In 80 Car Pile-Up On I-81
DNA Samples ID Victims Killed In 80 Car Pile-Up On I-81 DNA samples were what ultimately helped officials identify the six victims killed in a nearly 80-car pileup on Interstate 81 caused by a snow squall last month, authorities said. The people who are listed together were riding in the same vehicle, according to state police. Their names were released Thursday, April 21. Terri Stull, 56, and Douglas Teeter, 57; both of Lexington, Massachusetts Rita Matos, 40, and Edward Ramos, 43; both of Carlisle William Douglas, 69, of Pine Grove, West Virginia Domingo Diaz, 66, of Brooklyn, New York There were 39 commercial and 41 passenger vehicles i…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case
Bensalem Police ID Human Remains In 1995 Cold Case The human remains found behind a diner in Bensalem over 26 years ago have been identified, authorities announced. The adult skeletal remains, which were found on Sept. 18, 1995, in the woods behind the Club House Diner on Street Road, belong to Merrybeth Hodgkinson, according to the Bensalem Police Department. She was unclothed and wrapped in a plastic tarp, police said. The death was classified as a homicide by unspecified means and investigators said that the body had been there for two to three years. At the time, police only knew the victim was an adult white female between the a…

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by Nicole Acosta