{"id":3152,"date":"2012-11-16T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T01:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2012-11-16T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T01:53:38","slug":"police-seek-help-in-case-of-murdered-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Police seek help in case of murdered Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found near Downingtown, he was unidentified for more than four decades<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0Managing Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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State police are looking for the public\u2019s help to solve the 1968 murder of Cpl. Robert Daniel Corriveau.<\/p><\/div>\n

For nearly 44 years, the remains of an unidentified murder victim lay in Longwood Cemetery, but the case was not forgotten, state police said.<\/p>\n

On July 29, 2009, members of the Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Investigation Assessment\/Missing Persons Unit \u2013 assisted by the Chester County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the Coroner\u2019s Office \u2013 exhumed the body for DNA analysis.<\/p>\n

Nearly three years later, the victim was identified as Cpl. Robert Daniel Corriveau, a decorated U.S. Marine. Corriveau, who had been wounded in action on three separate occasions in Vietnam in 1967. He had been killed two weeks before his 21st<\/sup>\u00a0birthday.<\/p>\n

In September, a Chester County judge ordered Corriveau\u2019s remains to be exhumed again from his Kennett Square grave so that he could be re-interred with military honors in his family\u2019s burial plot in Lawrence, Mass., according to his obituary.<\/p>\n

Now state police, still hoping to find Corriveau\u2019s killer, are releasing details about the case and asking for the public\u2019s assistance. Anyone with information should call 610-268-5158 or email\u00a0RA-1968MarineDeath@pa.gov<\/a>. Reward money may be available through Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers at 1-800-4PA-TIPS or www.PaCrimeStoppers.org.<\/p>\n

Police offered this account:<\/p>\n

On Nov. 18, 1968, a state trooper on routine turnpike patrol spotted a man in a seated position alongside the highway about a mile east of the Downingtown interchange.\u00a0 The trooper stopped to check on the man, who carried no identification, and found that he was deceased.\u00a0An autopsy determined that the young man had been stabbed once through the heart.<\/p>\n

After exhuming the body in 2009, investigators sent bone samples to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, where a DNA profile was eventually entered into a national missing persons\u2019 DNA database. Investigators suspected the victim had military ties because of two tattoos: a bird in flight with a heart in the background and a bulldog wearing a World War I helmet the letters \u201cUSMC\u201d below it. As a result, the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service Cold Case Unit and the U.S. Marine Corps Absentee Collection Unit were contacted.<\/p>\n

Once Corriveau was identified, investigators learned that he had been a patient at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, where he was receiving psychiatric treatment for a combat-related condition. He was discovered missing by hospital personnel at 7:50 a.m. on Nov. 18, 1968, the same day he was found along the turnpike near Downingtown.<\/p>\n

According to his obituary, Corriveau was born in Lawrence, Mass., \u00a0on Dec. 1, 1947.\u00a0 He was the son of the late Phillip G. Corriveau and Kathleen\u00a0Hannagan Corriveau. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on April 1, 1965.\u00a0 After boot camp and field combat training, he was\u00a0deployed to Vietnam, where was awarded the Purple Heart and the Marine Corps Service Commendation Medal.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information should call 610-268-5158 or email\u00a0RA-1968MarineDeath@pa.gov<\/a>. Investigators are particularly interested in speaking with anyone who may have served with Corriveau or interacted with him at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in October and November 1968.<\/p>\n

Reward money may be available through Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers at 1-800-4PA-TIPS orwww.PaCrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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