{"id":306598,"date":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306598\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","slug":"officials-id-human-remains-found-at-vacant-home-in-reading-pa-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306598\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials ID human remains found at vacant home in Reading, Pa. \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials identified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/owner-discovers-human-remains-at-recently-purchased-reading-property-police-say\/4473548\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">human remains that were discovered in Reading, Pennsylvania<\/a>, and the victim\u2019s death has been ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 2, 2026, at 4:46 p.m., police responded to a vacant home along the 500 block of South 6th Street for a security check. When officers arrived, the property owner told them they had discovered what &#8220;appeared to be&#8221; human remains.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County Coroner, a forensic pathologist, a forensic odontologist, and two teams of forensic anthropologists from the University of South Florida all worked to identify the remains.<\/p>\n<p>Several families also contacted the coroner\u2019s office with descriptions of missing loved ones after officials announced the remains were found.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 14, the Berks County Coroner identified the body as 47-year-old Jose Rodriguez-Figueroa, Jr. of Reading. The Reading Police Department is investigating his death as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information on Figueroa\u2019s death, please contact Reading Police at (610) 655-6116.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials identified human remains that were discovered in Reading, Pennsylvania, and the victim\u2019s death has been ruled a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-306598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-pennsylvania","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\/306598","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=306598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}