{"id":317970,"date":"2025-10-20T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317970\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:06:10","slug":"philadelphia-police-find-human-remains-in-search-for-missing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317970\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police find human remains in search for missing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA — 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” 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’s. <\/p>\n

An anonymous tip led police to the area they’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

\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’s 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 — PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia police found human remains Saturday in their search for a 23-year-old woman…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[159672,5229,347,57,22938,2936,1448,2830,1311,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-317970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-159672","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-kidnapping","13":"tag-law-enforcement","14":"tag-pa","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-u-s-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115405231671663939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317970","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=317970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}