{"id":30469,"date":"2019-11-18T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=30469"},"modified":"2019-11-18T08:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:44:36","slug":"chesco-coroner-ids-body-found-in-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=30469","title":{"rendered":"Chesco Coroner IDs body found in Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ChescoCoronerLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10552\" src=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ChescoCoronerLogo-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Chester County Coroner\u2019s Office has positively identified the skeletal remains recovered from a wooded area in Valley Township on October 29, 2019, as those of Julia Gonzalez, age 22, of Coatesville.<\/p>\n<p>After recovery of the remains, the Coroner\u2019s Office worked with forensic odontologist, \u00a0John B. Nase, DDS, FAGD, FICD on a postmortem dental examination which identified unique features of the teeth. Once a presumptive identification based on her unique tattoo was made, the Coroner\u2019s staff initiated a search for antemortem dental records. Upon comparison, a successful match between Gonzalez\u2019s dental records and those of the remains were completed today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Coroner Christina VandePol said, \u201cOne of our responsibilities is to confirm identity using a scientific technique in certain cases. A presumptive or circumstantial identification is not always adequate. While DNA is the best known scientific approach, dental identification is faster but depends on someone having dental records we can locate. Julia\u2019s family has been notified at this time and we are pleased to be able to reunite her with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cause and manner of death are still under investigation by the Coroner\u2019s Office, Valley Township Police, and the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chester County Coroner\u2019s Office has positively identified the skeletal remains recovered from a wooded area in Valley Township on October 29, 2019, as those of Julia Gonzalez, age 22, of Coatesville. After recovery of the remains, the Coroner\u2019s Office worked with forensic odontologist, \u00a0John B. Nase, DDS, FAGD, FICD on a postmortem dental examination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11964,3067,6269,4819],"class_list":["post-30469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-body-found","tag-chester-county-coroners-office","tag-featured","tag-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30470,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions\/30470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}