Crime & Safety
Casey Johnston, Missing Bucks Co. Woman, Found Dead: Reports
The missing Lower Southampton woman's car was found a day earlier in a wooded area of Philadelphia, according to reports.
LOWER SOUTHAMPTON, PA — The body of Cassandra "Casey" Johnston was found in Byberry Creek, several news outlets reported Sunday, citing police.
Johnston, a 26-year-old Lower Southampton woman, had been missing for three weeks.
Johnston's body was found one day after her car, a 2016 Ford Focus, was found in a wooded area off Woodhaven Road near the Route 1 exit in Philadelphia, according to a Bucks County Courier-Times report.
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Authorities had a wooded area near Townsend and Southampton roads taped off Sunday afternoon, CBS reported.
Johnston was reported missing by her family after failing to return home from a location on 12th Street and Vine Street in Philadelphia's Chinatown neighborhood on July 10.
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Her family hired a private investigator earlier in the week to help find her.
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