{"id":10589,"date":"2025-10-21T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10589\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:40:06","slug":"philadelphia-investigators-uncover-bones-after-tip-about-decade-old-missing-person-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10589\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia investigators uncover bones after tip about decade-old missing person case"},"content":{"rendered":"

After receiving a tip on Tuesday, Philadelphia <\/a>crime scene investigators started digging for human remains in connection with a 13-year-old cold case.<\/p>\n

“When I came over here, I saw the white suits,” said Saed Burkett, who lives nearby. “I know what they are for.”<\/p>\n

Officers were spotted along the railroad tracks near 7th Street and Glenwood Avenue in North Philadelphia<\/a>, hoping to find the remains of 42-year-old Reynaldo Torres, who disappeared in 2012.<\/p>\n

Action News has learned that bones were discovered at the site on Tuesday, but will have to undergo DNA testing to confirm whether they are connected to Torres.<\/p>\n

In 2013, several months after his disappearance, Torres’ jawbone was discovered in a park near 5th and Westmoreland streets, which is about a quarter of a mile from Tuesday’s discovery.<\/p>\n

The case has long-time residents concerned.<\/p>\n

“I’m very shocked to see something like this happen here in this neighborhood,” said Angelisse Vazquez.<\/p>\n

The disappearance of Torres is part of a twisted tale of murders and a disgraced Philadelphia homicide detective, Ronald Dove<\/a>. Police said he may have had information on Torres and several homicides, but did not disclose it to the department.<\/p>\n

Dove was romantically involved with Erica Sanchez<\/a>, who was accused of killing her boyfriend in Kensington.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dove later pleaded guilty to helping her escape to New York, and ditch her car. However, she was not implicated in the disappearance of Torres.<\/p>\n

There’s no word on how long the DNA testing will take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After receiving a tip on Tuesday, Philadelphia crime scene investigators started digging for human remains in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8497,6552,221,69,71,70,8495,8496],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-scene-investigators","tag-human-remains","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-reynaldo-torres","tag-saed-burkett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}