{"id":275526,"date":"2026-08-31T02:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:22:27","slug":"woman-found-dead-in-sewickley-township-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275526\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead in Sewickley Township house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Newton woman was found dead Sunday morning in a house in Sewickley Township, Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n<p>The Westmoreland County Coroner identified the deceased woman as Christin E. Hamilton, no age given.<\/p>\n<p>In their first statement today, Pennsylvania State Police were seeking Jakob Michael Korber, identified as being in the area of the incident. At around 7 p.m., state police said Korber was in custody.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PSP GBG responded to a residence on Herminie West Newton Rd this morning for an unresponsive female. Upon arrival she was deceased. <\/p>\n<p>Jakob Michael Korber was in the area and is pictured below. Last known on foot. Anyone with info on his whereabouts please call 911 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/83BkER5Zx3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/83BkER5Zx3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troopers Steve Limani &amp; Cliff Greenfield (@PSPTroopAPIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PSPTroopAPIO\/status\/2094184179122471342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 30, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>State police went to a house Sunday morning on Herminie West Newton Road for an unresponsive woman.<\/p>\n<p>When troopers arrived, she was dead, state police spokespersons said.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner gave the time of the incident as around 9:30 a.m., and the time of Hamilton\u2019s death as 12:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>State police did not say how Hamilton died. The coroner said that the cause and manner of her death were pending final autopsy and toxicology results and further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in evening, state police had released a picture of Korber, saying he was in the area and asking the public\u2019s help to locate him. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Newton woman was found dead Sunday morning in a house in Sewickley Township, Westmoreland County. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-275526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275526","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=275526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}