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Beaver County investigators exhume remains in effort to solve 4 cold cases

Jason Reed
Reporter · Monday, November 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM · 1 min read
Beaver County investigators exhume remains in effort to solve 4 cold cases — Cranberry Township Community news

Beaver County investigators are turning to decades-old graves in a new push to solve four cold cases, including the mystery of a woman's severed, embalmed head that was found in the woods in Economy Borough and made national headlines in 2014.On Monday, the remains of two men buried at Oak Grove Cemetery who have gone unidentified for more than half a century were exhumed as part of an ongoing effort to give four people their names back and help determine how they died, hoping modern science can uncover what decades of investigation could not.Those two men were found in the water in separate cases in the 1960s. Both were buried at Oak Grove Cemetery. Neither man was ever identified. In one of those cases, barge workers found a man in the Ohio River in May 1960, entangled in driftwood. His autopsy was inconclusive."The biggest thing is just identifying who these people are. They've been at a John Doe grave for 60 years. And to be able to, one, give them the respect of knowing who they w

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