{"id":179337,"date":"2026-04-29T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:37:09","slug":"decomposed-body-found-in-pennypack-creek-on-tuesday-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179337\/","title":{"rendered":"Decomposed body found in Pennypack Creek on Tuesday, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of an unidentified person was found in Pennypack Park on Tuesday afternoon, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators responded at 4:41 p.m. after receiving a report of a suspicious death near the 3100 block of Rhawn Street, which runs through the park. They found the body in the creek. The Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office pronounced the person dead at 5:06 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/teen-mother-killing-baby-northern-liberties\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teen mother charged with voluntary manslaughter in killing of newborn baby in Northern Liberties<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The body was &#8220;badly decomposed,&#8221;<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/badly-decomposed-body-found-in-creek-at-pennypack-park-on-tuesday-police-say\/4393683\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0NBC10<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the person&#8217;s death is ongoing. Detectives are working with the Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office to identify the person and determine their circumstances that led to their death.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of an unidentified person was found in Pennypack Park on Tuesday afternoon, police said.\u00a0 Investigators responded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33588,693,80069,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-179337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-deaths","tag-investigations","tag-pennypack-park","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179337","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=179337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}