{"id":252211,"date":"2026-07-26T04:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252211\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:56:23","slug":"50k-reward-offered-in-unsolved-murder-of-pennsylvania-teacher-susan-ledyard-we-miss-susan-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252211\/","title":{"rendered":"$50K reward offered in unsolved murder of Pennsylvania teacher Susan Ledyard: &#8220;We miss Susan every day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Susan Ledyard, a Delaware County, Pennsylvania, high school teacher whose body was found in a river seven years ago, is offering a reward for information leading to an arrest in her unsolved murder.<\/p>\n<p>Ledyard&#8217;s parents, siblings and loved ones have teamed up with Delaware Crime Stoppers to offer a $50,000 reward.<\/p>\n<p>Ledyard&#8217;s body was found by a construction worker in the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 23, 2019. The state&#8217;s forensic&#8217;s team determined Ledyard died from blunt force trauma to the head and drowned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/susan-ledyard-death-teacher-brandywine-river-wilmington-ruled-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Her manner of death was ruled a homicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/susan-ledyard-murder-one-year-anniversary-unsolved\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As reported by CBS News Philadelphia in 2020<\/a>, evidence showed that there was a four-hour timeframe between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. that morning where Ledyard&#8217;s whereabouts remain unknown. Her car was seen leaving her driveway at 3:02 a.m. and her Fitbit confirmed she was still alive at 7 a.m. Her body was discovered in the river about 40 minutes later. Her car was located three miles away from where her body was found.  <\/p>\n<p>Through a press release from the state police, love ones said that they are desperate to get justice for her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We miss Susan every day,&#8221; the Morrissey family said. &#8220;We need everyone to help us spread the word about her case to generate tips.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone is waking up every day and going to sleep every night knowing they have taken her life and shattered her family,&#8221; Meg Morrissey-Heinicke, Susan&#8217;s sister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/susan-ledyard-death-wilmington-river-homicide-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told CBS News Philadelphia in 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the case can contact Delaware State Police detective Daniel Grassi by calling 302-365-8441 or emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/susan-ledyard-murder-50000-reward-cold-case\/mailto:daniel.grassi@delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">daniel.grassi@delaware.gov<\/a>. The state is also welcoming tips through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=346&amp;CX=040404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Delaware Crime Stoppers<\/a>\u00a0at 1-800-TIP-3333.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of Susan Ledyard, a Delaware County, Pennsylvania, high school teacher whose body was found in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13361,107733,212,28,30,29,9205],"class_list":["post-252211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cold-case","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-delaware-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-wilmington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252211","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=252211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}