8/31/17
by News Department on 08/31/17Autopsy scheduled...
An autopsy is scheduled for this morning to try to determine what caused the death of a missing Carbon County teenager who was found in a remote area of Schuylkill Township on Tuesday afternoon.
Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David J. Moylan III said that the body of 17 year old Cassidy Derr, of Lansford, was found by searchers at the bottom of a water-less pit on Tuscarora Mountain, between Tamaqua and Tuscarora.
Schuylkill County Deputy Coroner David Truskowsky, said that although Derr’s body was found Tuesday afternoon, she was not removed from the pit until later Wednesday morning due to the scene being processed by a state police Forensic Services Unit that gathered potential evidence in the event foul play is suspected.
Moylan said a CAT scan was conducted on Derr at the Simon Kramer Institute, New Philadelphia, and that a forensic autopsy is scheduled for 8 a.m. today.
