{"id":83479,"date":"2026-01-10T21:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T21:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:41:05","slug":"missing-man-found-dead-in-new-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83479\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Man Found Dead in New Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW BETHLEHEM, Pa. (EYT) \u2013 A New Bethlehem man who had been the subject of a month-long search by state police was found deceased on Friday afternoon at a local cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, Brandon Michael Franklin, 40, was located at the New Bethlehem Cemetery on Lafayette Street. Clarion County Coroner Dan Shingledecker was called to the scene at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, January 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin had been reported missing to Pennsylvania State Police in Kittanning on December 11, 2025, after last being seen leaving the Press Your Luck Casino on December 6. <\/p>\n<p>While the discovery concludes the search efforts, authorities state that the cause of death is pending at this time. The case remains under active investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BETHLEHEM, Pa. (EYT) \u2013 A New Bethlehem man who had been the subject of a month-long search&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,41914,8119,41915,41916,8292,9628,41917,6429],"class_list":{"0":"post-83479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-brandon-michael-franklin","12":"tag-clarion-county","13":"tag-dan-shingledecker","14":"tag-ennsylvania-state-police","15":"tag-kittanning","16":"tag-new-bethlehem","17":"tag-new-bethlehem-cemetery","18":"tag-psp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83479","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=83479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}