{"id":62512,"date":"2025-12-16T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62512\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:50:12","slug":"missing-man-found-dead-in-wayne-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62512\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing man found dead in Wayne County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 80-year-old Texas Twp. man \u2014 who had been reported missing \u2014 was pronounced dead on Friday afternoon, the Wayne County coroner\u2019s office announced.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office responded to 485 Long Ridge Road, Palmyra Twp., after the homeowner remotely accessed his home video surveillance, observed a deceased person in his driveway and called 911, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Mark M. James, the county\u2019s chief deputy coroner, pronounced Thor Korneliussen dead at the scene Friday at 2:10 p.m., per the release.<\/p>\n<p>Korneliussen, who was last seen in the area of Lock Street in Texas Twp. on Thursday at 11 p.m., had been reported as a missing endangered person by the Pennsylvania State Police at Honesdale, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was performed Monday, the coroner\u2019s office announced. The cause and manner of death are pending further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 80-year-old Texas Twp. man \u2014 who had been reported missing \u2014 was pronounced dead on Friday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,139,28,178,180,179,181,1481],"class_list":{"0":"post-62512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-top-stories-stt","15":"tag-wayne-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512","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=62512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}