{"id":322081,"date":"2026-11-06T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322081\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T01:16:07","slug":"charges-filed-in-death-of-10-year-old-malayshia-allford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322081\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges filed in death of 10-year-old Malayshia Allford"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The foster mother of 10-year-old Malayshia Allford<\/a> has been charged with murder after police found the girl\u2019s remains in Lindenwold, District Attorney Larry Krasner said Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

Malayshia<\/a> had been missing for more than a week before authorities said her body was found in a car overnight at the Stonington Court Apartments in Camden County, New Jersey.\n<\/p>\n

Caprice Williams, 36, is facing multiple felony charges, including murder, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be very clear that there will be a just and \u2026 vigorous prosecution in this case, that more details will be available as we move forward,\u201d Krasner said in a press conference announcing the charges.\n<\/p>\n

Malayshia<\/a> had been living under Williams\u2019 care at a West Philadelphia home in the 500 block of North Simpson Street, where police had focused search efforts. Investigators said video evidence showed her body being removed from the home just before 2 a.m. on Oct. 2.\n<\/p>\n

Her body was transported in a separate vehicle from the one she was discovered in. An initial autopsy showed the cause of death as blunt force trauma.
\n\"PastorDuring the press conference on Nov. 5, 2026 Pastor Alyn Waller of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church said \u201cthis is a moment where we all need to be reminded there is a God\u201d when discussing the murder case involving 10-year-old Malayshia Allford. (6abc)\n<\/p>\n

Pastor Alyn Waller, of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, said as the community seeks justice, they are reminded that \u201cthere are other Malayshias out there.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a stark reminder that there\u2019s a whole lot of work for us to do,\u201d Waller said. \u201cWe are judged by how the children of our community fare. Does not matter what our economics, what our politics [are]. The question is how are the children? And until we can say the children are fine, we\u2019re not fine.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to social media<\/a>, Mayor Cherelle Parker offered her condolences to the Allford\u2019s family, saying authorities \u201cwill cross every \u2018t and dot every \u2018i\u2019 to uncover all of the facts\u201d in the murder case.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a mother, this has shaken me to my core,\u201d Parker said in a statement. \u201cI can\u2019t stop thinking about this precious baby and the heartache and turmoil that her immediate village will endure. As a praying Mayor, who wholeheartedly believes in the power of God\u2019s strength. I pray that God will give the family a certain peace that passes all understanding to meet this moment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing and is being conducted by law enforcement partners, including the Philadelphia Police Department and the FBI.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[130624,3640,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-322081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-malayshia-allford","tag-missing-person","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322081","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=322081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}