{"id":255011,"date":"2026-07-29T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255011\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:29:10","slug":"coroner-dna-links-part-of-skull-found-in-easton-to-remains-in-delaware-river-in-bucks-county-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255011\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: DNA links part of skull found in Easton to remains in Delaware River in Bucks County | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bucks County Coroner’s Office says a partial skull recovered in Northampton County in 2023 matches the DNA of an unidentified man whose body was found in the Delaware River in Bucks County in 2021.<\/p>\n

In March 2023, the top portion of a skull, known as the calvarium, was found along the shoreline of the Delaware River in Easton, according to Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek.<\/p>\n

The DNA of that partial skull matches remains recovered from the Delaware River in Bucks County in August 2021, according to officials.<\/p>\n

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Pa. state police investigating after body found near Delaware River<\/a><\/p>\n

State troopers responded to the 1800 block of Trails End in Bridgeton Township on Aug. 25, 2021, after a body was found wedged against a dock anchored in the river, according to a news release.<\/p>\n

The body was recovered by the Upper Black Eddy Fire Department. State police estimated the remains had been in the water for one to two weeks before being discovered.<\/p>\n

The Northampton County Coroner said while the DNA matched, the investigation into the man’s identity, cause, and manner of death remains open and ongoing.<\/p>\n

Both coroner offices are collaborating on the investigation, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bucks County Coroner’s Office says a partial skull recovered in Northampton County in 2023 matches the DNA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,2834,6290,434,2835],"class_list":["post-255011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-central-bucks-county","tag-easton-area","tag-northampton-county","tag-upper-bucks-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255011","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=255011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}