{"id":171723,"date":"2026-04-21T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:25:07","slug":"human-remains-found-in-woods-near-wissahickon-creek-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171723\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found in woods near Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation is underway after human remains of an adult were found Monday evening in a wooded area of Philadelphia, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The discovery was made around 6:41 p.m. near the intersection of Wissahickon Creek and Germantown Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say that due to the condition of the remains, the individual&#8217;s race and gender have not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause and manner of death are still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is urged to contact police at 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after human remains of an adult were found Monday evening in a wooded area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14580,6552,69,71,70,77053,77054],"class_list":["post-171723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-germantown-avenue","tag-human-remains","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wissahickon-creek","tag-wooded-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171723","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=171723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}