The Homicide Unit has begun exhuming unidentified human remains at a field in Northeast Philadelphia as part of a joint operation to identify victims who died under suspicious circumstances.

The Police Department's Homicide Unit has begun exhuming unidentified human remains at a field in Northeast as part of a joint operation with the goal of identifying the victims who died under suspicious circumstances.

Philadelphia police and forensic experts this week will exhume the bodies of eight unidentified people who were killed in homicides decades ago in hopes of finally learning their names and stories. Local and federal investigators began digging up the remains of the victims,

Philadelphia police are digging up human remains as part of an ongoing project to identify the bodies of people who died under suspicious circumstances.