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EAST WHITELAND TWP., Pa. - 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.Chester County cold case: Body of unidentified person to be exhumed 37 years after death
Chester County officials hope to resolve a decades-old mystery by exhuming an unidentified body discovered in 1987.www.fox29.com
"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.
Garcia-Jackson is hoping to unlock a mystery that started back on Halloween of 1987. That’s when hunters found the skeletal remains of a body in a wooded area off of Creek Road in Caln Township.
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"We will extract DNA and submit that to the State Police who will upload it into something called NAMUS, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, and we can extract DNA to do the genealogy to see if there are any living relatives," said Garcia-Jackson.