{"id":312027,"date":"2026-10-22T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312027\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:58:17","slug":"body-found-in-dumpster-near-bensalem-township-pennsylvania-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312027\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in dumpster near Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania after a body was found in a dumpster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792688297_735_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 16, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; An investigation is underway in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania after a body was found in a dumpster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The discovery was made Thursday afternoon near an apartment complex on the 3200 block of Bristol Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chopper 6 was overhead as investigators cordoned off an area of the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There was no immediate word on the identity of the individual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An autopsy will determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MORE TOP STORIES:<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania after a body was found in a dumpster. Thursday, September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[127572,191,193,192,194,127569,83823,127570,127571,38135,29],"class_list":["post-312027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-127572","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bensalem-township-body-found","tag-bensalem-township-pennsylvania","tag-body-found-dumpster","tag-bristol-road-bensalem","tag-death-investigation","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312027","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=312027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}