{"id":200482,"date":"2026-05-23T06:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:15:22","slug":"skeletal-remains-found-near-creek-in-northeast-philadelphia-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200482\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeletal remains found near creek in Northeast Philadelphia: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police found adult skeletal remains on the 28XX block of Grant Avenue near a creek on Friday, May 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office is working to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are asking anyone with information to contact Northeast Detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Police say adult skeletal remains were discovered near a creek on the 28XX block of Grant Avenue at 2:50 p.m. Friday, May 22, and the scene has been secured as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigation underway after remains found near creek<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to the scene Friday afternoon and confirmed the remains belong to an adult, according to Philadelphia police.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the Northeast Detectives Division is leading the investigation. The remains will be transported for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are urging anyone with information to contact Northeast Detectives at 215-686-3153 or leave an anonymous tip at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office will work to identify the remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not released the identity of the person or the circumstances surrounding the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information from the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Police found adult skeletal remains on the 28XX block of Grant Avenue near a creek on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88784,40474,69,71,70,2245,76653],"class_list":["post-200482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-grant-avenue","tag-medical-examiner39s-office","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-skeletal-remains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200482","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=200482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}