{"id":249479,"date":"2026-07-22T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249479\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:18:07","slug":"lehigh-county-coroner-looking-for-67-year-old-allentown-mans-next-of-kin-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249479\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County Coroner looking for 67-year-old Allentown man\u2019s next of kin | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help in a next-of-kin search.<\/p>\n

William J. Wagner, 67, of Allentown, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 12:50 a.m. at his home, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n

The cause of death is pending the results of toxicology testing, Buglio said.<\/p>\n

The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office & Forensic Center is trying to locate Wagner’s next of kin.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has information that may assist in identifying or locating his family are asked to contact the Coroner’s Office at 610-782-3426 or by email at danielbuglio@lehighcounty.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help in a next-of-kin search.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,17147,1024,18143,106701],"class_list":["post-249479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-coroner","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-next-of-kin","tag-william-j-wagner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249479","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=249479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}