PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia crime scene investigators were seen digging for human remains on Tuesday in connection with a 13-year-old cold case.<\/p>\n
Officers were spotted along the railroad tracks near 7th Street and Glenwood Avenue in North Philadelphia<\/a>, hoping to find the remains of 42-year-old Reynaldo Torres, who disappeared in 2012.<\/p>\n “When I came over here, I saw the white suits,” said Saed Burkett, who lives nearby. “I know what they are for.”<\/p>\n Action News has learned that bones were discovered at the site on Tuesday, but will have to undergo DNA testing to confirm whether they are connected to Torres.<\/p>\n In 2013, several months after his disappearance, Torres’ jawbone was discovered in a park near 5th and Westmoreland streets, which is about a quarter of a mile from Tuesday’s discovery.<\/p>\n The case has long-time residents concerned.<\/p>\n “I’m very shocked to see something like this happen here in this neighborhood,” said Angelisse Vazquez.<\/p>\n The disappearance of Torres is part of a twisted tale of murders and a disgraced Philadelphia homicide detective, Ronald Dove<\/a>. Police said he may have had information on Torres and several homicides, but did not disclose it to the department.<\/p>\n Dove was romantically involved with Erica Sanchez<\/a>, who was accused of killing her boyfriend in Kensington.<\/a><\/p>\n Dove later pleaded guilty to helping her escape to New York, and ditch her car. However, she was not implicated in the disappearance of Torres.<\/p>\n There’s no word on how long the DNA testing will take.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia crime scene investigators were seen digging for human remains on Tuesday in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[161335,5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-322810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-161335","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115415691100121970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}