Gregory Rohn disappeared in December 2023, but police would not find his remains inside an Adams Street home until six months later.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Gregory Rohn had been missing for months when police finally returned to an Adams Street house in June 2024 and found the 36-year-old’s remains concealed above the third floor, transforming his family’s search into a criminal investigation that eventually led to an arrest in another state.
The case now centers on Angela Rice, 41, who is accused of improperly concealing Rohn’s body after his death. Police arrested Rice in Schenectady, New York, in August 2026 and brought her back to Cambria County to face a second-degree misdemeanor charge of abuse of a corpse. The charge does not allege that she killed Rohn. Instead, investigators say evidence gathered after his remains were discovered connected her to the place where the body had been hidden. The distinction remains significant because the official cause of Rohn’s death has never been determined.
Rohn’s disappearance began with an ordinary family interaction. His mother told police that she picked him up from the Cambria County Jail in December 2023 and later dropped him off. He said he planned to visit a friend in the Old Conemaugh Borough area, according to court information cited by local news outlets. When he stopped communicating and could not be located, she reported him missing. Police entered Rohn into the missing-person system and began retracing his recent movements, trying to identify the people and places connected to the final hours in which he was known to be alive.
One of those places was Rice’s residence on Adams Street. According to reporting based on the criminal complaint, Rice told investigators that Rohn spent the night there on Dec. 23, 2023. She said she left the following morning to go to Hornerstown and found that Rohn was no longer at the house when she returned. At that stage, the statement suggested he had moved on from the residence. There was no public announcement that police had found physical evidence showing he remained inside. Rohn continued to be treated as a missing person.
Within weeks, however, Johnstown police began receiving calls that pointed back to the same property. The criminal complaint, as described by WTAJ and other outlets, said several 911 calls came in between Jan. 15 and Jan. 17, 2024, reporting that a deceased person might be in the attic. Officers reportedly went to the house more than once and tried to contact someone inside, but nobody responded. The public accounts do not identify who made the calls or explain how those callers came to believe that a body was there. Nor do the available reports establish that police searched the house during that January period.
For Rohn’s relatives, the uncertainty continued. He was still missing as winter turned to spring, and no official identification, death announcement or criminal charge had resolved the case. The gap between the January calls and the eventual discovery would later become one of the most striking elements in the timeline. Authorities ultimately concluded that the body found in the residence had likely been there for approximately five or six months, meaning the remains were concealed during much of the time Rohn’s family was still waiting to learn what had happened to him.
The breakthrough came on June 29, 2024. Police went to the Adams Street residence for a welfare check after receiving new concerns about conditions at the home. Officers reported seeing large numbers of flies through a window and noticing a strong odor associated with decomposition. Firefighters helped them gain entry. The search moved through the house and eventually to the upper level, where investigators found human remains wrapped in a tarp in a cramped attic or crawl-space area connected to a third-floor bedroom.
The condition of the remains showed that the person had been dead for a substantial period. Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees estimated the death had occurred about five or six months earlier. Decomposition had progressed until the remains were largely skeletal, and investigators said parts of the deteriorated remains had affected the floor beneath the hiding place. Lees said the circumstances were suspicious because the body had not simply been left where a person appeared to have died. It had been wrapped and intentionally concealed inside the structure of the home.
The discovery did not immediately give Rohn’s family an answer. Authorities first had to identify the remains. The condition of the body prevented an ordinary visual identification, requiring investigators to use dental records. In August 2024, Lees announced that the remains belonged to Rohn. The finding ended the question of where the missing man had gone, but it did not answer the question of why he died. Forensic work found no reported traumatic injury that explained the death.
Investigators did detect fentanyl, but decomposition created another barrier. Toxicologists could not establish a reliable concentration of the drug in Rohn’s remains, according to local reporting. Without a dependable level, the coroner could not conclude that fentanyl caused a fatal overdose. Lees therefore classified the death as undetermined. That official finding remains separate from later witness accounts in which Rice was allegedly described as saying Rohn had suffered an overdose. The witness statements may explain what investigators believed happened, but they did not change the formal forensic finding.
Over time, detectives obtained more information from people who said Rice discussed Rohn’s death. One acquaintance told investigators that Rice allegedly said Rohn died after an apparent overdose and that she hid his body afterward, according to reports describing the complaint. Other witnesses gave police similar accounts of statements allegedly made by Rice. In one reported version, she said the body was “in the walls in the attic.” Investigators treated those statements as evidence supporting the allegation that she was involved in concealing Rohn’s remains.
Police eventually charged Rice with abuse of a corpse. Pennsylvania’s statute applies when someone knowingly treats a dead body in a manner that would outrage ordinary family sensibilities. Prosecutors did not need to accuse Rice of causing Rohn’s death to bring that charge. The allegation instead rests on the treatment and concealment of his remains. As a result, the criminal case can proceed on the concealment question even though forensic investigators were unable to establish whether Rohn died from an overdose, natural causes or some other reason.
The search for Rice continued after the charge was filed. Authorities eventually found her in Schenectady, roughly two years after Rohn’s body was recovered. Johnstown police and Cambria County detectives returned her to Pennsylvania in August 2026. She was arraigned and jailed in Cambria County, with local reports listing bail at $200,000. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 10 before Magisterial District Judge Brian Subich. The reliable reporting reviewed for this account does not establish the result of that scheduled proceeding.
Viewed from the beginning, the case developed in stages rather than through a single discovery. A mother first reported her son missing. Police learned he had stayed at a specific house. Calls then suggested a body might be inside that house. Months later, investigators recovered remains there. Dental records identified them as Rohn. Forensic testing could not determine how he died. Only later did investigators say witness statements connected Rice to the concealment. Each step answered one question while leaving another unresolved.
The remaining uncertainty is central to the legal posture of the case. Rice faces an allegation that she hid Rohn’s body, not an accusation that she caused his death. The coroner’s finding remains undetermined, and no verified material reviewed for this article establishes a later homicide charge. Rice is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. For Rohn’s family, the missing-person search is over, but the public record still does not provide a definitive answer about the final event that caused his death.
Author note: Last updated October 17, 2026.