An anonymous tipster contacted police Friday night, adamant that Scott’s body was on the grounds of the school.
Police excavated the area, and, a few feet down, they found Scott’s body.
Location data showed that, around 1 a.m., the watch was in the parking lot of the Awbury Recreation Center, said the source.
He left the car there that night — most likely with Scott’s body inside, the sources said.
Police don’t know the identity of the tipster who steered them to the location of Scott’s body.
The body was found in the woods behind Ada H, according to DNA analysis. H. . Kada Scott, the young woman who authorities claim was abducted two weeks ago, attended Lewis Middle School in East Germantown. On Sunday, law enforcement sources revealed new information regarding the circumstances that led investigators to discover her body.
On Friday night, an unnamed informant called the police, insisting that Scott’s body was on the school’s property.
According to the tipster, police had overlooked it during their previous searches. They should check the old wooden fence that separates the school from the nearby recreation center, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said.
The sources claim that the tipster wrote, “GO BACK YOU MISSED HER.”.
Therefore, investigators went back to the school on Saturday morning, searching a new area that police had spent a lot of time searching during the week after cell phone location data identified Keon King as the man suspected of kidnapping 23-year-old Scott from her place of employment in October. 4 — in the vicinity the night she vanished.
Scott’s pink phone case and debit card had been discovered behind the school a few days prior, but nothing else.
According to the sources, on Saturday afternoon, officers were once more traversing the heavily forested area when one of them stepped on a patch of ground that felt softer than the others, with loose debris, leaves, and sticks all over it.
Scott’s body was discovered by police when they dug up the area a few feet below.
She died in a way that is still unclear. The Medical Examiner’s Office may need to investigate the cause of death for several days or weeks.
According to the sources, however, Scott was probably murdered within 30 minutes of leaving her place of employment the night she vanished, based on fresh video evidence.
Two weeks after Scott vanished, the shallow grave was found thanks to anonymous tips that became more specific every day, location information from Scott’s Apple Watch, and, lastly, fresh surveillance footage found close to the school, the sources said.
It was a tragic conclusion to a search and tale that Scott’s family and many Philadelphians had hoped would go differently.
On the night of October, Scott, a lively young woman from Mount Airy’s Ivy Hill neighborhood, vanished from her place of employment, a Chestnut Hill nursing home. 4.
She left her job that evening to meet King, 21, just after 10 p.m., according to investigators who believe they had been texting. M. but was never brought back.
The type and degree of Scott and King’s relationship are still being looked into by the police.
Following King’s identification as a suspect, detectives combed through King’s and Scott’s phone location data. King was the last person to communicate with Scott in October, according to the data. 4. According to a law enforcement source, he was in the vicinity of Awbury Arboretum later that evening, and his phone briefly shared space with hers before she shut it off.
Police found out late last week that Scott had been wearing an Apple Watch the night she vanished. According to location data, that was around 1 a.m. m. According to the source, the watch was in the Awbury Recreation Center’s parking lot.
New surveillance footage that showed King pulling into the parking lot at around 10:30 p.m. was found by investigators when they visited the recreation center on Friday. m. October. According to two sources, there were four in a Hyundai Accent that had been reported stolen. According to the sources, Scott’s body was probably in the car when he left it there that evening.
The sources claimed that the video seemed to show King going back to the vehicle two days later to pick up and relocate what they thought was Scott’s body. Whether he acted alone or not is unclear.
According to the sources, the car was burned behind houses in the 7400 block of Ogontz Avenue the following day. King was there when the fire broke out, according to the source’s cell phone data. According to the sources, police no longer think that the gold Toyota Camry that King was seen driving was involved in the crime, despite their initial search for it. ).
Prior to deciding whether to charge King in relation to Scott’s death, the district attorney’s office stated that they would wait for more details from the police and the medical examiner.
The sources say King is likely to face arson charges in the next few days for allegedly setting the car on fire in West Oak Lane.
The identity of the tipster who led police to Scott’s body is unknown. However, according to the sources, the accomplice might have told others if King had assistance moving it, and one of them might have called the police.
The inquiry remains ongoing.
