{"id":17700,"date":"2020-04-12T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=17700"},"modified":"2020-04-12T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:21:46","slug":"missing-person-stephen-geer-of-smithsburg-maryland-located-deceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2020\/04\/12\/missing-person-stephen-geer-of-smithsburg-maryland-located-deceased\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Person Stephen Geer of Smithsburg, Maryland Located Deceased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE\u00a0<span class=\"il\">RELEASE<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Type of Incident:<\/strong> Deceased Missing Person Located<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and Time: <\/strong>04\/12\/2020 at 3:32 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>12000 Pleasant Valley Rd in Smithsburg, Washington County, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Narrative:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 04\/12\/2020 at 3:32 PM, a citizen reported locating a deceased adult male in a state of decomposition in the area of 12000 Pleasant Valley Rd in Smithsburg, Maryland.\u00a0 The body was discovered along a power line clearing approximately \u00bd mile from the roadway.\u00a0 The clothing description of the deceased matched the last known clothing description of missing person, Stephen Geer.\u00a0 Mr. Geer had been reported missing from his residence at the 23500 block of Foxville Rd on 02\/11\/2020.\u00a0 A Maryland State Police evidence technician responded to process the scene.\u00a0 During the course of the investigation, the deceased was positively identified as Mr. Geer.\u00a0 The deceased will be transported to the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Baltimore for an autopsy.\u00a0 The investigation is continuing at this time.\u00a0 Anyone able to provide additional information related to the case is encouraged to contact the Maryland State Police Hagerstown Barrack at 301-766-3800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE\u00a0RELEASE: Type of Incident: Deceased Missing Person Located Date and Time: 04\/12\/2020 at 3:32 PM Location:12000 Pleasant Valley Rd in Smithsburg, Washington County, Maryland. Narrative: On 04\/12\/2020 at 3:32 PM, a citizen reported locating a deceased adult male in a state of decomposition in the area of 12000 Pleasant Valley Rd in Smithsburg, Maryland.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2020\/04\/12\/missing-person-stephen-geer-of-smithsburg-maryland-located-deceased\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[56,34],"class_list":["post-17700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrackso-hagerstown","category-press-releases","tag-press","tag-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17702,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17700\/revisions\/17702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}