{"id":166169,"date":"2026-03-17T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:54:09","slug":"decapitated-handless-body-identified-nearly-56-years-after-being-found-on-ny-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166169\/","title":{"rendered":"Decapitated, handless body identified nearly 56 years after being found on NY road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ecd5aac4-untitled.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A cold case victim has been identified more than five decades after the horrifying discovery was made in a New York town, but his killer remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The body of a man with no head or hands was found on Davis Hill Road in Andover, New York, on March 20, 1970.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Any information about the victim remained unknown for nearly 56 years, until DNA collected in 2022 was used to determine his identity last month.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">New York State Police have identified the victim as 35-year-old Clyde A. Coppage, who was living in Genessee, Pennsylvania at the time of his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">He was never reported missing, because police say he was not originally from the area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Details about what led to Coppage&#8217;s death, along with who killed him, are still unknown. Police say the investigation into his death remains open and active.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Anyone with information about Coppage is asked to contact the New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/pa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; A cold case victim has been identified more than five decades after the horrifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[850,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,56,6620,618],"class_list":["post-166169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-pa","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}