Frozen body ID’d as man missing since 1980s

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — The frozen body found in the woods near Erie has been identified as a man whose family has been looking for him since the mid-1980s.

Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook says the father of 59-year-old James Burchett was notified Christmas Eve that his son’s body had been found near here. Cook says Burchett’s father, who lives in Tennessee, told police he has been looking for his son for more than 20 years. Burchett was apparently living in a dry culvert in the woods behind a Sam’s Club in Summit Township.