{"id":11044,"date":"2025-10-22T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11044\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:17:28","slug":"philadelphia-police-find-human-remains-in-search-for-missing-woman-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11044\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police find human remains in search for missing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia police found human remains Saturday in their search for a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kada-scott-missing-813727ec39dc885b0107a43060094070\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:23-year-old woman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">23-year-old woman<\/a> who disappeared from her nursing home job about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police held a news conference Saturday to give an update on the disappearance of Kada Scott and released a statement saying investigators \u201crecovered human remains believed to be&#8221; hers. But John Stanford, deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, stopped short of confirming the remains found in a wooded area behind an abandoned school were Scott&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An anonymous tip led police to the area they&#8217;d previously searched, according to Stanford. He said the remains, believed to be the body of a woman, were found in a shallow grave. He added that it appeared the person had been dead for several days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are not going to confirm, at this point, that it is Kada Scott because that has to be done by the medical examiner\u2019s office,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s still a lot of work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stanford said investigators were in touch with Scott&#8217;s family on the developments but he declined to answer specific questions, citing an active investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police spokeswoman Tanya Little said Sunday that the department did not have any updates. A message left Sunday for the medical examiner\u2019s office wasn\u2019t immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The case has prompted questions about the justice system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Twenty-one-year-old Keon King has been <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/philadelphia-missing-woman-kidnapping-arrest-913950aa2c062f24cb13a74d68bd82f2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:arrested and charged;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">arrested and charged<\/a> with kidnapping, stalking and other charges in the disappearance of Scott. He had been allowed to go free after being charged in a similar case earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the Scott case, King\u2019s bail has been set at $2.5 million. He remains in custody and has a preliminary hearing next month. His defense attorney did not return a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia police found human remains Saturday in their search for a 23-year-old woman who disappeared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6552,8769,6573,91,69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-human-remains","tag-investigators","tag-john-stanford","tag-kada-scott","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}