{"id":299102,"date":"2026-10-03T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299102\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:06:36","slug":"new-details-in-case-of-human-remains-found-in-reading-home-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299102\/","title":{"rendered":"New details in case of human remains found in Reading home | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – Police continue to investigate the discovery of remains found at a property in Reading, which the Berks County Deputy Coroner has now confirmed are human remains.<\/p>\n

On Friday at approximately 4:46 p.m., Reading police were sent to a building in the 500 block of South 6th Street for a security check. The owner of the recently purchased property was on scene and discovered what appeared to be human remains.<\/p>\n

Members of the Reading Police Department’s Patrol Division and Criminal Investigations Division responded and requested assistance from the Berks County Coroner’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The investigation remains active and ongoing. At this time, the incident appears to be isolated and there is no active threat to the public.<\/p>\n

Additional information will be released as it becomes available. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Reading Police Department at (610) 655-6116 or Crime Alert Berks County.<\/p>\n

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69 News crews on the scene witnessed a large police presence, hazmat crews, and the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Police continue to investigate the discovery of remains found at a property in Reading, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-299102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299102","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=299102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}