{"id":8618,"date":"2025-10-20T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8618\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:20:10","slug":"police-find-human-remains-in-search-for-missing-philadelphia-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8618\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find human remains in search for missing Philadelphia woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia police found human remains Saturday in their search for a 23-year-old woman<\/a> who disappeared from her nursing home job about two weeks ago. <\/p>\n

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\u201d 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\u2019s. <\/p>\n

An anonymous tip led police to the area they\u2019d 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

\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

Stanford said investigators were in touch with Scott\u2019s family on the developments but he declined to answer specific questions, citing an active investigation.<\/p>\n

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

The case has prompted questions about the justice system.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one-year-old Keon King has been 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

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38,6573,2655,3626,1856,40,28,69,71,70,7382,44],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-general-news","tag-john-stanford","tag-keon-king","tag-kidnapping","tag-law-enforcement","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-tanya-little","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","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=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}