A person walking on state game lands in Cherry Township made a gruesome discovery Saturday, finding the body of Richard Dale Dublin

Dublin, who had been missing since early this month, was wanted on charges of child pornography. He was last seen about 1 p.m. Feb. 4 at his home in Slippery Rock Township.

County Coroner William Young said Dublin committed suicide, and that an autopsy is not usually conducted in such cases.

A week after Dublin's disappearance, District Judge Bill O'Donnell signed a felony arrest warrant for Dublin charging him with 52 felony counts related to child pornography.

According to police, Dublin was caught in a December 2017 online investigation by the Northwest Computer Crime Task Force. A trooper with the task force traced the IP address of a sexually explicit video to Dublin's former marital home in Franklin Township. Court documents reveal the video depicted a man having sex with two underage girls. Task force officers executed a search warrant at the home in March 2018.

State police said Dublin left his family a letter and apparently turned off his cell phone.

Investigators found his 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer Feb. 6 in a parking area along Branchton Road on Pennsylvania Game Commission property near Route 308 in Cherry Township.

An exhaustive search was undertaken, including the area around two frozen strip mine ponds, but nothing was found.

At one point it was suspected that Dublin might have been trying to elude police.