{"id":186478,"date":"2026-05-07T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186478\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:36:13","slug":"cold-case-homicide-remains-unsolved-in-city-of-meadville-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186478\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Case Homicide Remains Unsolved in City of Meadville | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crime<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) in Meadville are continuing work of an investigation into a 19-year-old homicide that remains unsolved.<\/p>\n

William Rossey 63 was last seen on Oct. 29 in 2005 in the City of Meadville following a Halloween Parade. At the time of his last known sighting, he was wearing a black ball cap, dark blue jeans, a baseball type jacket, and blue Velcro tennis shoes.<\/p>\n

His family reported him missing several days later, and all searches for him following did not provide any new information on his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

Rossey was known to visit the Dawg Pound Bar as well as local sub shops. For transportation he would walk, hitch-hike, and would bounce from various locations with friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n

Seven months later, Rossey\u2019s body was found in French Creek just off Shilling Road in Union Township. Following an autopsy, his death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n

Those with any information regarding Rossey\u2019s death should contact the PSP Meadville Criminal Investigation Unit at (814) 332-6911 or PSP Tips Toll Free at 1-800-472-8477 or online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Information provides to an arrest, the solving of this case, or the whereabouts of a wanted person\/fugitive or missing person can result in a cash reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) in Meadville are continuing work of an investigation into a 19-year-old homicide that remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13361,136,138,137,457,2609,1224,83170],"class_list":["post-186478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cold-case","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-homicide","tag-meadville","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-william-rossey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186478","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=186478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}