{"id":314474,"date":"2025-10-18T22:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314474\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:22:15","slug":"female-remains-found-amid-search-for-kada-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/314474\/","title":{"rendered":"Female remains found amid search for Kada Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say tips had been flooding in after they announced the arrest of 21-year-old Keon King of Southwest Philadelphia, who authorities say was the last person in contact with Scott.\n<\/p>\n

King has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and other offenses in connection with Scott\u2019s disappearance.\n<\/p>\n

Police are still working to determine how King and Scott knew each other, but they believe the pair came into contact in the days before the disappearance.\n<\/p>\n

Before her disappearance, Scott had told people that she was being harassed, but it is unclear if King was the person allegedly harassing her.\n <\/p>\n

Scott\u00a0vanished the night of Saturday, Oct. 4<\/a>, after leaving her workplace, an assisted living facility in Chestnut Hill.\n<\/p>\n

King is being held on $2.5 million bail.\n<\/p>\n

Charges being refiled in earlier, similar case<\/p>\n

King is also facing charges in what officials call a similar case from earlier this year in which a woman was allegedly kidnapped and strangled, but survived.\n<\/p>\n

Those charges were dropped when the accuser failed to appear in court, but will now be refiled, the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office said.\n<\/p>\n

In the first case, the prosecutor said King kidnapped a woman from in front of her house, \u201cthrew her in her car, assaulted her and eventually let her out.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

D.A. Larry Krasner addressed the case during a news conference on Friday, saying his office\u00a0could have done more<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could have done better in that. A really sophisticated approach to the case would have been to try to put it all in with video evidence,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

The incident was\u00a0captured partly in a viral video<\/a>. Investigators say it shows King peering through and knocking on windows while a person inside yells to call the police and for him to go away.\n<\/p>\n

Krasner noted King being out on bail as a reason why the victim didn\u2019t appear in court.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason they had to worry he was going to come out of the same door they went in the courthouse right after they testified against him is because he was on bail,\u201d said Krasner.\n<\/p>\n

King was able to post 10% of $200,000 bail in his first kidnapping arrest.\n<\/p>\n

When asked why the DA\u2019s office didn\u2019t petition for a higher bail, Krasner said it was a strategic decision not to bother judges overnight.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have the option of trying to do what is often a midnight or three o\u2019clock in the morning telephonic appeal to a municipal court judge,\u201d said Krasner. \u201cThe unfortunate reality of this is that some, but not all of these judges, don\u2019t want you calling them in the middle of the night. And if you do, they lower the bail. They don\u2019t raise it, they don\u2019t leave it. They lower it. So it is always a complex, strategic decision.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Marty O\u2019Rourke, a spokesperson for the courts, said in response:\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all due respect, the DA and his staff know there are assigned Municipal and Commons Pleas Court judges on call 24\/7 and prepared at any hour to address emergency Court matters. In light of this truth, the DA\u2019s comments are appallingly disrespectful and a sad attempt on his part to find a scapegoat for his own failings on this matter.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say tips had been flooding in after they announced the arrest of 21-year-old Keon King of Southwest…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":314475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,14607,5425,1448,2830,1311,14844,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-314474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-human-remains","10":"tag-missing-person","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-police-department","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115397508916888301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}