{"id":25602,"date":"2019-11-08T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=25602"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:11:47","slug":"authorities-seek-help-to-id-body-found-in-valley-twp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=25602","title":{"rendered":"Authorities seek help to ID body found in Valley Twp."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10479\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SkeletalRemainsFound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10479\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10479\" src=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SkeletalRemainsFound-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The jacket worn by a woman, whose body was discovered in Valley Twp., Oct. 29. Authorities are asking the public for help to identify her.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Chester County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and the Valley <span class=\"s1\">Township <\/span>Police Department <span class=\"s1\">announced<\/span> the recovery of the partially <span class=\"s1\">decomposed<\/span> body <span class=\"s1\">of<\/span> a woman in Valley Township. They are asking for the public&#8217;s <span class=\"s12\">assi<\/span><span class=\"s13\">s<\/span><span class=\"s12\">tance <\/span>in identification <span class=\"s1\">of <\/span>the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">On October 29, some bypassers noticed human <span class=\"s1\">bones<\/span> in <span class=\"s1\">a<\/span> wooded area near the <span class=\"s1\">500 <\/span>block of East Glencrest Road in Valley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Valley Township Police Officers <span class=\"s1\">and <\/span>Chester County <span class=\"s1\">Detectives <\/span>responded to the scene, as well as the Coroner&#8217;s <span class=\"s12\">Office<\/span><span class=\"s22\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Police discovered the bones and partially <span class=\"s1\">decomposed <\/span>body of a woman. The woman was <span class=\"s1\">small<\/span> in <span class=\"s1\">stature,<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">age<\/span> range of 16-40, and <span class=\"s1\">white<\/span> or Latina. There were no signs of trauma. She was wearing a yellow and gray sweatshirt<span class=\"s26\">. <\/span>On her right hip, <span class=\"s1\">she <\/span>had a tattoo <span class=\"s1\">of <\/span>a ram or the Capricorn <span class=\"s1\">symbol.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s29\">&#8220;At<\/span> <span class=\"s29\">thi<\/span><span class=\"s1\">s<\/span> time, we have no indication of criminal activity,&#8221; Valley Township Police Chief Brian <span class=\"s1\">Newhall<\/span> said. &#8220;However, we need to identify <span class=\"s29\">this <\/span>woman and alert her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s29\">The <\/span>body does not match any known missing persons from Chester County<span class=\"s26\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p10\">There was no identification on the body or in the surrounding area<span class=\"s26\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p12\"><span class=\"s33\">&#8220;This<\/span> <span class=\"s33\">woman<\/span> <span class=\"s33\">is<\/span> somebody&#8217;s daughter, sister, or mother,&#8221; Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said. &#8220;We are asking for the<span class=\"s12\"> public&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"s33\">help<\/span> to identify her and return her to her <span class=\"s16\">family<\/span><span class=\"s41\">.<\/span><span class=\"s16\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p13\">Anybody with any information can contact Chester County Detective Sergeant Tom Goggin at 610-3644-6866 or Valley Township Police Officer James Chieffo at <span class=\"s3\">610<\/span><span class=\"s43\">&#8211; <\/span>383-7000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chester County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and the Valley Township Police Department announced the recovery of the partially decomposed body of a woman in Valley Township. They are asking for the public&#8217;s assistance in identification of the woman. On October 29, some bypassers noticed human bones in a wooded area near the 500 block of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9294,688,3912,654],"class_list":["post-25602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-body","tag-chester-county-district-attorneys-office","tag-featured","tag-valley-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25603,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25602\/revisions\/25603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}