{"id":30602,"date":"2025-11-11T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30602\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:29:07","slug":"homicide-investigation-begins-following-discovery-of-bodies-of-missing-reading-woman-one-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30602\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation begins following discovery of bodies of missing Reading woman, one-year-old son |"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – The search for a missing woman and her child ended after authorities in Berks County made a shocking discovery.<\/p>\n

On the evening of Friday, September 19, a woman’s body was discovered in a grassy field off of East Huller Lane in Ontelaunee Township.<\/p>\n

Members of the Berks County Detectives, the Reading City Police Department, the Berks County Forensic Services Unit and the Northern Berks Regional Police Department responded to the scene to begin a death investigation.<\/p>\n

Investigators say the unidentified female appeared to be the victim of foul play, and based upon several descriptors, police suspected she was a person previously reported to Reading Police who had gone missing with her one-year-old son<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, September 20, the body of a toddler was found in a marshy area approximately 150 yards west of where the woman’s body was located the previous day.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Crime scene tape in an area along East Huller Lane in Ontelaunee Township.<\/p>\n

Chad Blimline | WFMZ-TV <\/p>\n

Autopsies were performed on both victims at Reading Hospital and postmortem examinations ruled both deaths homicides. Authorities did not say how the two died.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Investigators confirmed the victims were in fact Geraldina Peguero-Mancebo and her one-year-old son, Jeyden Junior Peguero.<\/p>\n

The investigation, which is ongoing, is being conducted by The Berks County Detectives along with Reading Police.<\/p>\n

Reading Police discovered the body of Junior Cabrera-Colon in the brush along River Road on the morning of September 13. The victim was later found to have died from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n

Investigators working the case were notified that Cabrera-Colon lived with Peguero-Mancebo and her son and neither had been seen or heard from since Friday, September 12. Both were entered as missing persons endangered in the National Crime Database, police say.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Jose Rodriguez was charged with Cabrera-Colon’s murder<\/a>. The suspect allegedly told police he acted in self-defense. He’s currently in custody at Berks County Jail without bail.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been announced at this time in the deaths of Geraldina and Jeyden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Berks County District Attorney John Adams says his office intends to hold a press conference on Monday, September 29 regarding the investigation. Time to be determined.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Berks County Detective\u2019s Office at 610-478-7171, the Reading Police Department at (610) 655-6116, or Crime Alert Berks County at (877) 373-9913.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – The search for a missing woman and her child ended after authorities in Berks County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19415,349,1377,1375,31,710,2892,2894,111,10910,1380,1379,1055,1376,1856,2900,2897,783,1378,206,128,130,129,1306,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-30602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-autopsy","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-berks-county-detectives-office","11":"tag-berks-county-detectives","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-crimes","14":"tag-criminal-justice","15":"tag-criminal-law","16":"tag-death","17":"tag-detective","18":"tag-geraldina-peguero-mancebo","19":"tag-jeyden-junior-peguero","20":"tag-john-adams","21":"tag-jose-rodriguez","22":"tag-law-enforcement","23":"tag-legal-action","24":"tag-misconduct","25":"tag-murder","26":"tag-ontelaunee-township","27":"tag-police","28":"tag-reading-city","29":"tag-reading-city-headlines","30":"tag-reading-city-news","31":"tag-reading-police-department","32":"tag-violence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602","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=30602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}