Unsolved Cases: Man Found Near Claysville 41 Years Ago Still Unidentified
The man's death was ruled a homicide.
An Independence Township resident was hitchhiking on Old Route 40 in Donegal Township, Washington County, at about 9:20 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, 1972, when he spotted the badly decomposed body of a man. The body was down an embankment, about 65 feet south of the roadway. Its skeletal remains were found in a brier thicket, near a small trash dump, about two miles west of Claysville Borough. It was estimated that the body had been there for about 8 to 10 weeks. The man's death was ruled a homicide, according to the Pennsylvania Missing Persons website. The man had gunshot wounds in his left torso, possibly from a .22-caliber weapon. While details about the man's appearance and clothing are many, there are no clues as to who he was, where he …
