A 41-year-old woman wanted on an active Pennsylvania warrant was tracked down in Schenectady, New York, and extradited to Cambria County this week, more than two years after a man’s body was found decomposing inside the attic crawl space of a Johnstown home. Angela Rice now sits in Cambria County Prison on $200,000 cash bail, charged with abuse of a corpse in connection with the death of 36-year-old Gregory Ira Rohn.
Rice was located and taken into custody by Johnstown police officers and Cambria County detectives before being brought back to Pennsylvania this month, according to WJAC. She was arraigned Thursday night and is now scheduled for a preliminary hearing on September 10, as first reported by WTAJ.
Rohn was originally reported missing by his mother in December 2023, after she picked him up from Cambria County Jail and dropped him off at a home in Old Conemaugh Borough, according to police criminal complaints cited by FOX8. He had reportedly told his mother he was headed to visit a friend before he vanished. His body wasn’t found until June 2024, discovered wrapped in a tarp inside the attic crawl space of a residence on the 100 block of Adams Street, per the same account from FOX8.
Skeletal Remains Made Toxicology Impossible
By the time investigators found him, Rohn’s body had decomposed down to skeletal remains, according to WJAC’s reporting, and had reportedly deteriorated through the floor of the crawl space. During a July 2024 press conference, Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees officially identified the remains as Rohn and said that while an overdose was suspected, the severe decomposition made it impossible for toxicology testing to determine exact drug levels. Lees also stressed at the time that Rohn could not have wrapped himself in the tarp in which he was found…