Man Shot to Death Still Unidentified

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin and Coroner Scott Grim are asking for the public's help in identifying a and whose body was found Nov. 1 along Applewood Drive outside Upper Macungie.

The authorities released two forensic sketches of the homicide victim on Wednesday in hopes that the public can help identify him.

The man has been described as white, 6-foot-1 to 6-foot-3 and weighing about 160 to 170 pounds. He is described as being between 18 and 30 years old with short light brown hair. He was wearing eye glasses and appeared to be wearing a plaid shirt and purple and black checkered socks.

The body was found about 8:30 a.m. along Applewood Drive, on a bend in the road between Huckleberry and Haasadahl roads, by a South Whitehall public works employee who was cleaning up tree branches after a weekend snowstorm.

The Coroner’s Office performed an autopsy on Nov. 2 and .

Any individual or agency with information about the identity of the victim is asked to contact South Whitehall Township Police Detective Tom Gersbach or Lehigh County Homicide Task Force Detective Lou Tallarico at 610-437-5252 or the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office at 610-782-3426.

The last homicide involving a South Whitehall resident was in 1999, when Theresa Field disappeared. She was later found to have been killed in her home but her body was discovered Aug. 3, 2001, in the basement of her husband Alton Field's former jewelry store in Hellertown, according to published reports of her husband's murder trial. Alton Field was found guilty of first-degree murder by a Northampton County jury in 2004.