{"id":83977,"date":"2026-01-11T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:51:08","slug":"missing-man-found-dead-in-new-bethlehem-gantnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83977\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Man Found Dead in New Bethlehem \u2013 GantNews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW BETHLEHEM, Pa. (EYT) \u2013\u00a0A New Bethlehem man who had been the subject of a month-long search by state police was found deceased on Friday afternoon at a\u00a0local\u00a0cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0officials,\u00a0Brandon Michael Franklin, 40, was\u00a0located at the New Bethlehem Cemetery on\u00a0Lafayette\u00a0Street. Clarion County Coroner Dan Shingledecker was called to the\u00a0scene\u00a0at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, January 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-iceapw=\"28\">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 data-iceapw=\"25\">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<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   <a href=\"https:\/\/gantnews.com\/2026\/01\/11\/2026-pennsylvania-farm-show-opens-kicking-off-a-year-of-america250pa-commemorations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Pennsylvania Farm Show Opens Kicking Off a Year of America250PA Commemorations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BETHLEHEM, Pa. (EYT) \u2013\u00a0A New Bethlehem man who had been the subject of a month-long search by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-83977","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83977","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=83977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}