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The New York Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a human body was discovered along the Lake Erie shoreline on August 13 in the Town of Ripley.<\/p>\n
According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded around 9 a.m. to the area of North State Line Road and Barden Road following a report of a body that had washed ashore and become lodged along the shoreline near a residence.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the individual appears to be a light-skinned male, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a beard and short hair with a receding hairline. Authorities reported that no visible tattoos, scars or other readily identifiable markings were observed.<\/p>\n
The identity of the deceased has not been released, and officials have not announced a cause of death. The investigation remains ongoing at this time.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have information relevant to the investigation is asked to contact the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office at (716) 753-4232.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a human body was discovered along the Lake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1188,32009,136,138,137,260,84152,24700],"class_list":["post-264751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-body-found","tag-chautauqua-county","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-ripley","tag-shoreline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264751","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=264751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}