Here's what Netflix show said about Beaver County's mysterious embalmed, severed head

Netflix viewers now can speculate about one of Beaver County's most enduring mysteries.

"Why is a severed head sitting in a nice neighborhood in a nice town," begins the narration on an "Unsolved Mysteries" episode about the case of a detached head found nearly 10 years ago in Economy.

The identity of the victim has never been solved.

Premiering July 31, the Netflix reboot interviews former Beaver County Chief Detective Andy Gall, Economy Police Chief Michael O'Brien, county coroner's office pathologist assistant Timothy Manzewitsch, other police officers and local and national journalists associated with the investigation.

"Unsolved Mysteries" cameras transport viewers to the wooded area along Mason Road where the head was found. Viewers also hear the actual 911 call from the 15-year-old boy who found the head, while archived police reports, crime scene photos and police station interviews set the scene of how law enforcement officers tried to crack the case.

Economy residents are described as "nice people... they have expensive houses" as drone footage shows the wooded area where the head of a woman, believed to be between ages 60-80, was discovered.

“This is one of the scarcest crime scenes I’ve ever been on," Gall recalls on camera. "And one of the strangest."

Investigators pursued a few potential leads that went cold, including a missing Fayette County head stolen from a crypt 26 years earlier. But research by a forensic dental expert concluded the woman whose head was found in Economy had undergone a dental procedure that didn't exist 26 years earlier.

Drawing from footage from a Denver television station report, "Unsolved Mysteries" questions if the head was part of a black-market operation that sells and trades body parts. The report said a detached head can fetch as much as $500.

Interviewed by "Unsolved Mysteries," Gall, fellow law officers and journalists such as former Times reporter Kristen Doerschner, concur it's tragic that the severed head victim has never been identified.

"Unsolved Mysteries" details how the head was buried in Beaver Cemetery in a full-sized casket, as law officers hope to someday reunite the head with its identified body.

The "Unsolved Mystery" episode ends with an on-screen message asking viewers with any possible leads to come forward.

Beaver County Crime Solvers hopes someone watching the show will provide answers. Beaver County Crime Solvers pledges a $5,000 reward for information that helps solve the case.

Tips can be given to Crime Solvers at 724-774-2000.

This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: Netflix looks at severed head found in Economy, Beaver County