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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 area where the remains were found on Crooked Hill Road, Susquehanna Township.

The area where the remains were found on Crooked Hill Road, Susquehanna Township.

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The area where the remains were found by a hunter in Pittsburgh.

The area where the remains were found by a hunter in Pittsburgh.

Photo Credit: Google Maps (Satellite)

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 incident have been released. Anyone who can provide additional information is asked to call dispatch at 717-558-6900.

The second body was found just before 2:15 p.m. in the Pittsburgh area, authorities announced in a separate release issued two minutes after the STPD release. 

Pittsburgh Police from Zone 5 responded to a 911 call for a possible human skull found by hunters in a wooded area in the 1200 block of Washington Blvd.

Detectives and the Mobile Crime Unit were soon called to the scene for further investigation.

"Additional human remains were also located in the vicinity. It is not immediately clear whether the decedent is male or female," authorities state in the release.

The Medical Examiner's Office will determine cause and manner of death. There is no further information available at this time.

The investigation is ongoing in that case as well.

Authorities in Pittsburgh tell Daily Voice, "there is no reason to think these cases are connected." Authorities in Dauphin County did not immediately respond to Daily Voice on Monday, March 20. 

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