{"id":166804,"date":"2026-03-18T00:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166804\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:02:20","slug":"decapitated-handless-body-found-in-ny-in-1970-identified-as-pennsylvania-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166804\/","title":{"rendered":"Decapitated, handless body found in NY in 1970 identified as Pennsylvania man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773792140_884_ecd5aac4-untitled.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">PENNSYLVANIA &#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=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">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-f1afc186=\"\">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-f1afc186=\"\">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-f1afc186=\"\">He was never reported missing, because police say he was not originally from the area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">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=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">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.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/ny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PENNSYLVANIA &#8211; A cold case victim has been identified more than five decades after the horrifying discovery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[850,9,24,12,56,63,6620,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-166804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-pa","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166804","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=166804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}