{"id":21952,"date":"2025-11-01T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21952\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:29:13","slug":"police-investigate-suspicious-death-after-body-found-outside-bensalem-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21952\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Investigate Suspicious Death After Body Found Outside Bensalem Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"735\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pexels-photo-923681-e1730312740368.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crime scene do not cross signage\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Photo by kat wilcox on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/crime-scene-do-not-cross-signage-923681\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BENSALEM, PA \u2014 Authorities in Bensalem are investigating a suspicious death after a man was found dead outside a hotel on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mychesco.com\/a\/tag\/bensalem-police-department\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bensalem Police Department<\/a>, officers were called to the parking lot of the Benjamin Rush Hotel\u2014formerly the Neshaminy Motor Inn\u2014located at 2345 Old Lincoln Highway, around 4:30 p.m. on October 27, 2025. Upon arrival, officers discovered a deceased white male lying on his back in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>The man had no identification on him, but police later confirmed his identity using a mobile fingerprint scanner. He was identified as 42-year-old Zachary Dooney, whose last known address was in Newville, Pennsylvania. At the time of discovery, he was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt bearing the words \u201cRob Nolfi Roofing\u201d and gray sweatpants.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are treating the incident as a suspicious death and are asking for the public\u2019s assistance. Investigators are specifically seeking anyone who may have seen or spoken with Dooney before his death on October 27.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact the Bensalem Police Department at 215-633-3719 or <a href=\"https:\/\/bucks.crimewatchpa.com\/bensalempd\/contact\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submit an anonymous tip online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No cause of death has been released, and the investigation remains ongoing. All individuals connected to the case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news on everything happening in Chester County and the surrounding area, be sure to follow MyChesCo on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqJggKIiBDQklTRWdnTWFnNEtERzE1WTJobGMyTnZMbU52YlNnQVAB?hl=en-IN&amp;gl=IN&amp;ceid=IN%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Google News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/channel\/source\/MyChesCo\/sr-cid-AF4D10B27AA10316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MSN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by kat wilcox on Pexels.com BENSALEM, PA \u2014 Authorities in Bensalem are investigating a suspicious death after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,11229,194,4828],"class_list":["post-21952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-police-department","tag-bensalem-township","tag-criminal-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21952","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=21952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}