{"id":657327,"date":"2026-03-15T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/657327\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:00:25","slug":"ny-headless-handless-body-identified-as-clyde-coppage-56-years-after-allegany-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/657327\/","title":{"rendered":"NY headless handless body identified as Clyde Coppage 56 years after Allegany discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headless, handless body of a man found on the side of a lonely road in\u00a0New York\u2019s Allegany County\u00a056 years ago has been identified through DNA advancements, officials announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>Still, his killer hasn\u2019t been caught.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Clyde A. Coppage, 35, was discovered along a road in Andover in upstate New York in March 1970.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of nearly 56 years, investigating members of the New York State Police continued to track down every lead, but the identity of the male remained unknown,\u201d New York State Police said in a news release Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Coppage was originally\u00a0from Pennsylvania\u00a0and hadn\u2019t been reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t have any clothes on or any other way to identify him,\u00a0Trooper James O\u2019Callaghan\u00a0said Friday, according to the Albany Times Union.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Callaghan said the evidence suggested Coppage was\u00a0killed and dismembered\u00a0somewhere else before his body was left on the rural Davis Hill Road\u00a0in Andover.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.46136364;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38784295\" width=\"203\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/clyde-a-coppage.jpg\" alt=\"The body of Clyde A. Coppage, 35, was discovered along a road in Andover in upstate New York in March 1970.\" class=\"wp-image-38784295\"  \/>The body of Clyde A. Coppage, 35, was discovered along a road in Andover, upstate New York in March 1970. New York State Police<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33409091;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38784296\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/coppage-crime-scene-1970_0.jpg\" alt=\"O\u2019Callaghan said the evidence suggested Coppage was\u00a0killed and dismembered\u00a0somewhere else before his body was left on the rural Davis Hill Road\u00a0in Andover.\" class=\"wp-image-38784296\"  \/>O\u2019Callaghan said the evidence suggested Coppage was\u00a0killed and dismembered\u00a0somewhere else before his body was left on the rural Davis Hill Road\u00a0in Andover. New York State Police<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, his body was exhumed for a DNA profile, and, with the\u00a0help of the FBI, he was finally identified.<\/p>\n<p>State police said the Bureau of Criminal Investigation out of NYSP Amity is asking for the public\u2019s help for any information about Coppage or his killer.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into his death remains active, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The headless, handless body of a man found on the side of a lonely road in\u00a0New York\u2019s Allegany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":657328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,55671,14607,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,8073,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-657327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-cold-cases","tag-human-remains","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-upstate-new-york","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116233085072806055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657327","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=657327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}