{"id":307730,"date":"2026-10-16T05:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307730\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:24:14","slug":"homicide-investigation-launched-as-remains-of-reading-man-found-in-vacant-home-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307730\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation launched as remains of Reading man found in vacant home: coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Berks County Coroner’s Office has identified human remains that were found Oct. 2 inside a vacant home in Reading, and a homicide investigation is underway.<\/p>\n

The remains of 47-year-old Jose Rodriguez-Figueroa Jr., of Reading, were found inside a vacant home on the 500 block of South Sixth Street, prompting an investigation into his cause of death, according to the coroner’s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the help of families who shared descriptions of missing loved ones, the coroner’s office was able to positively identify the deceased as Rodriguez-Figueroa.<\/p>\n

In a release on Wednesday, the coroner’s office confirmed that his death is being investigated as a homicide by the Reading Police Department. <\/p>\n

The investigation remains active, and additional information will be released when appropriate, the coroner’s office noted.<\/p>\n

No persons of interest have been publicly identified by the police at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The Berks County Coroner’s Office has identified human remains that were found Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-307730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","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\/307730","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=307730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}