{"id":451153,"date":"2025-12-16T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451153\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:23:16","slug":"badly-decomposed-body-found-in-west-philadelphia-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/451153\/","title":{"rendered":"Badly decomposed body found in West Philadelphia home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmj8ohek8000e01uz13boxy2t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Police are investigating a suspicious death in West Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmj8olgos002g357vzondo68k@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Authorities received a 911 call around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. A man told police he hadn\u2019t seen his friend in a few weeks. When he went to the home at 61st and Arch streets, he said he found a man\u2019s badly decomposed body face down in the living room.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmj8olgp4002h357vaqc1qnre@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Chief Inspector Scott Small said they can\u2019t tell how the man died.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmj8olgpr002i357v2znpkdtf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cThe body is decomposed, so it\u2019s very difficult to determine just from looking at him if there\u2019s any trauma to the body,\u201d said Small. \u201cThe body is dressed normally. The house is in disarray, and there\u2019s a lot of debris and a lot of clutter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmj8olgqc002j357vfs4ra4n5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The man told investigators he thinks the body is his 41-year-old friend, but it\u2019s too decomposed to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: NBC10\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Police are investigating a suspicious death in West Philadelphia. Authorities received a 911 call&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-451153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115729937420530528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451153","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=451153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}