{"id":15981,"date":"2025-10-26T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15981\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:00:08","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-investigating-after-mans-body-found-on-state-game-lands-in-westmoreland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15981\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police investigating after man&#8217;s body found on state game lands in Westmoreland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a man&#8217;s body was found on Saturday night in Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n<p>A hunter came across the body on state game lands across from the 17th hole of the Mannitto Golf Course in New Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was later identified as Robert Friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PSPTroopAPIO\/status\/1982532263687733726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">state police said via social media<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/body-found-robert-friend-pa-state-police.png#.png\" alt=\"body-found-robert-friend-pa-state-police.png \" height=\"443\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after Robert Friend&#8217;s body was found on Saturday night in Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n<p>                Photo Credit: Pennsylvania State Police<\/p>\n<p>Police have not said how Friend died, but they are calling his death suspicious. Anyone who saw Friend on Friday is asked to contact the Pennsylvania State Police Troop A barracks at 724-697-5780.<\/p>\n<p>More information is expected to be made public on Monday, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a man&#8217;s body was found on Saturday night in Westmoreland County. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1188,73,75,74,5910],"class_list":{"0":"post-15981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-body-found","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-westmoreland-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981","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=15981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}