Chester County officials hope to resolve a decades-old mystery by exhuming an unidentified body discovered in 1987.
No name. No headstone. No idea what happened. Only tiny red and blue flags outline the grave site of a person only known as John Doe. The flags mark out the spot where crews at Philadelphia Memorial Park Cemetery, in East Whiteland Township, will arrive Thursday morning to exhume a body that was buried there decades ago."We don’t have any DNA on file, nothing was retained, so the entire skeletal remains were buried," said Chester County Coroner Sophia Garcia-Jackson.
So, after two years without anyone coming forward saying ‘This is my missing person,’ and if there is any connection, the investigation kind of stopped there," said Garcia-Jackson.Fast-forward three decades. Armed with advances in DNA technology and a 2022 Pennsylvania law requiring all unidentified persons to have DNA on file, the coroner went to Chester County Court and was awarded permission to exhume the body of John Doe.
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