Philly's Official 2020 Body Count: 499 Murders

By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
How many people were murdered in Philadelphia during 2020?
In the last few days, that number appeared to be a moving target. On Friday, New Year's Day, the official tally for last year's murders that was posted on the police department's crime stats website was 498.
This morning at 9 a.m., the 2020 body count on that same …