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PAM800806 August 6,1980; Pennsylvania
Topic Started: Feb 3 2008, 02:01 AM (320 Views)
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Unidentified Male Infant


The victim was discovered on August 6, 1980 in Plymouth Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania


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Estimated age: Newborn


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Case History
The victim was found on August 6, 1980, by a worker operating a bulldozer at the West Side Landfill in Plymouth Township.
An autopsy determined that the male child had been born alive. He had lived for 24 to 72 hours after his birth.
Manner of death was ruled "a homicide by acts of omission" according to Coroner's records.
Based on the content of the trash in the area where the boy's body was found, it is possible that he came from Kingston, Larksville, Courtdale, Wilkes-Barre, Wyoming or the Berwick area.
The infant has never been identified and the person or people responsible have never been found.



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Investigators
If you have any information about this case please contact:
Pennsylvania State Police
Troop P - Wyoming
570-697-2000
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.

Source Information:
Pennsylvania Missing
Kentucky Post



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SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2016 - 10:54 AM - UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2016 - 11:59 PM.
Exhumation of bodies begins in Luzerne County to solve cold cases
By Joe Dolinsky
Digging up the Past

FOUR LIVES LOST

• Interstate 81 Jane Doe

Date found: Sept. 28, 1970

Location: West side of the southbound lane, Interstate 81, Rice Township

Death: Considered suspicious

Cause: Undetermined

• Interstate 80 Jane Doe

Date found: Aug. 9, 1973

Location: About 100 feet off of Interstate 80, Black Creek Township

Death: Considered suspicious

Cause: Undetermined

• Bear Creek John Doe

Date found: May 28, 1979

Location: Bear Creek Township, near White Haven Road

Death: Homicide

Cause: Gunshot wound to the chest

• Baby Boy Doe

Date found: Aug. 6, 1980

Location: West Side Landfill, Larksville

Death: Homicide

Cause: Neglect

HANOVER TWP. — They know how they died. Now they want to learn who they were.

Investigators first had to dig. Armed Monday with hand tools and heavy machinery that shattered the silence at a normally serene Maple Hill Cemetery, investigators began exhuming the unidentified remains of three people whose unsolved local deaths date back to the 1970s.

A backhoe hoisted the victims’ burial vaults from their graves, within a few feet of one another at the far end of the hillside cemetery, after the excavator removed the top soil. The rest were dug up by hand. The remains, still in their original autopsy bags, will be cleaned and submitted for examination.

Facial reconstructions and chemical isotope testing, investigators say, could help identify the victims and lend closure to their families.

“It may be difficult for us to proceed on a homicide from 1970, but we will try our best and are willing to take that fight on,” Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said.

While identifying any of the victims may be a long shot, a small chance is better than no chance at all, lead investigator State Police Cpl. Thomas McAndrew said.

“I’d say it’s about a 1-in-10,000 shot,” McAndrew said. “But if we didn’t do this it would be zero-in-10,000.”

After exhuming the remains of the three adults — a male gunshot victim discovered in Bear Creek Township, a woman dumped nude along Interstate 81, and a woman found doused in sulfuric acid along another local stretch of highway — investigators traveled to Courtdale and unearthed the remains of an infant boy.

The boy, buried beneath a stone plaque in an isolated section of St. Anthony’s Cemetery, was discovered in 1980 by a worker dumping garbage in the now-closed West Side Landfill in Larksville. Investigators believe the baby was alive for 24 to 72 hours before being discarded.


Dr. Erin Kimmerle, a renowned forensic anthropologist from the University of South Florida, said the goal is to identify the victims and find out what happened to them.

The examinations, funded by the National Institute of Justice, begin with the victims’ skeletal remains, she said.

“It’s everything you can learn about a person from their biology,” Kimmerle said. “We use it to help create a facial reconstruction and that’s really important for putting a face out there to the public and hopefully somebody will come forward with information.”

The remains will be examined in Lehigh County, Kimmerle said. Depending on the results, further testing could be required in Florida. Results could take up to a year, Kimmerle said.

“It’s really just applying everything science has to offer,” she said.
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