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News Philadelphia as we now hit the twoe mark since she went missing. Take a listen.
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>> Things are not good, but we still are positive. Kada is alive and well somewhere, and we're going to get her
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home. A lot of family and friends and community as a whole wants to participate, do something to help bring
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Kada home. Uh so we had the idea of going through uh Otterbury Park. >> That community search is set for 5:00
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p.m. tonight there in Northwest Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the man suspected of kidnapping Scott Keon King
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has been arrested and charged. He is being held on a $250,000 bond. What I can tell you is that every single effort
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that can be made to help Kada and her family is being made. >> District Attorney Larry Kraner also says
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that King has a history of similar charges to the ones he is currently facing, including stalking. Kraner went
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on to urge any other possible victims of Kings to come forward. A prayer vigil was held last night at the senior living
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facility where Scott was last seen two weeks ago. >> All hope has been lost. >> We have must receive faith to believe.
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>> That's right. >> That Kada will come home >> and it's going to happen >> suddenly.
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>> I do want Katie and her family to know that uh they're not by themselves. >> Now, earlier this week, a phone case,
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bank card, and glasses believed to belong to Scott were found near Adah Lewis Middle School. Investigators are
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hoping those items can help lead them to her. Meanwhile, her family has now upped
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a reward for credible information. It now stands at $12,000. [music] >> [music] >> Future Miss Pennsylvania USA 2026
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contestant [music] Kada Scott, 23 years old, went missing after leaving for her night shift at an
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assisted living facility in Philadelphia. We will get into the minuteby-minute timeline of what we know
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about that night in just a moment. But here, let's note here that in the days leading up to her disappearance, Kada
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Scott had reportedly received threatening messages that she shared this concern, this information with
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friends and her family. This is from PPD. The Philadelphia Police Department is seeking the public's help in locating
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a missing person, Kada Scott. The 23-year-old female was last seen on Saturday, October 4th this year, 2025 at
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9:45 p.m. on the 8300 block of Rodney Street. Kada is 5'6 in tall, weighs 120 lb. She has black hair, brown eyes, and
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a thin build. >> She was a division one athlete. >> And you're going to hear the
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minute-by-minute will change. It will morph a bit over time as more information came in. But that was their
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original request from the Philadelphia Police Department looking for this missing young woman. She had recently
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graduated from Penn State University. She was working as a caregiver and was preparing to compete and hopefully win
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the 2026 Miss Pennsylvania pageant which is scheduled for January of next year. Kada Yanda Scott was born on November
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18th, 2001 in Philadelphia to parents Kim Matthews and Kevin Scott. As we said, she's a recent graduate and
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student of the Penn State University. She was just 23 years old at the time of her disappearance, just really starting
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out her young adult life and potential career after school. Sadly, adding to this tragedy, Kada and her family would
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have celebrated her 24th birthday just shortly after she went missing. I found many many folks all reporting the same
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that Kada was a very creative young lady and very close with her family saying Kada was full of light, creativity, and
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love. She is also described by family as hardworking and passionate about helping
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others. She was born and raised growing up and attending local Philadelphia area
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schools and then it was off to Penn State University. Her creative passions included fashion and design, which she
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shared across social media. And her interests and hobbies included actively involved in modeling and beauty
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pageantss with many referring to her as a MissUSA hopeful. Beyond all of that, and this just makes so much sense to me
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when I read and hear folks describing her as hardworking, kind, motivated, and ambitious. And what backs those
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statements up 110% for me, Captain, she was working as an overnight caregiver at
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the Terrace at Chestnut Hill Senior Living Facility. Now, that's a gig that requires both hard work and kindness.
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>> Yeah. >> Shout out to all of those wonderful nurses and caregivers out there. We are
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very quickly going to find ourselves in the thick of this, right in the muck in the me because this very short duration
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period here because just weeks before being abducted, Kada Scott starts this new job. All reports say she began
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employment at the terrace at Chestnut Hill, the assisted living facility in Philadelphia, in September of 2025. I
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could not narrow it down to an exact date, but a lot of stuff out there saying that it was just approximately 2
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weeks before she goes missing, maybe three at the most. So immediately here I'm wanting to know is there a possible
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correlation between these two events? Now compound that with the known concerns before
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her disappearance of reportedly receiving harassing phone calls or communications from an unknown
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individual. >> Right. We know this because Kada confides in family that she's been
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receiving harassing and disturbing phone calls in the days leading up to her disappearance. So, let's talk about her
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work a bit. She'd recently September of 25 started working at the Terrace at Chestnut Hill Senior Living in
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Philadelphia. In fact, it's located at 495 East Abbington Avenue in Philadelphia.
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Nestled just a short drive from downtown near German Town. The online description
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of this facility is the terrace at Chest Chestnut Hill was built from a charming
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19th century stone mansion. And they say, "Our upscale senior living community in Philadelphia offers a
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compassionate environment of personal care, memory care, and enriching lifestyles for your loved one. Whether
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inside spacious personal care suites or in one of our beautiful walk-in gardens,
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residents are surrounded by people first care in a vibrant senior living community."
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>> Well, a lot of these communities have extensive amount of staff. So whether it's nurses or even security, but one of
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the problems with this facility, you know, if your parents are there, maybe you should drop a note in the
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suggestion box for them to get some surveillance cameras. Yeah. So with this one, I it boggles the brain a bit why
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they wouldn't these facilities are not cheap to live in. If you are there, like the captain says, look around. If you
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don't see cameras, and this includes surrounding the outside perimeter of the building and
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extending into the parking lot, >> then that location is probably not for you. Because we've all seen the silver
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alerts where somebody has gone off campus and can't be found and and and they can't always find their way back.
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We need some kind of lead, some kind of breadcrumb trail to find that person and
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bring them back to receive the care that they need and deserve. So, a little bit
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shocking here that that is not the case with this facility. As of October of 2025, cameras are so readily available
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and not as expensive as they used to be. All right, let's get into the night in question. This is a Saturday. It's
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October 4th of this year. We're going to start at that 9:45 marker that was originally referenced by
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Philadelphia Police Department. This is when Kada Scott was last seen by her family. From my understanding, Captain,
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she's living with her family as a young adult. And this is before she goes off to work at the terrace. So 9:45 p.m.
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Kada leaves home at the 8,300 block of Rodney Street to drive to her job at the terrace at Chestnut Hill. Her family
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says she was in good spirits when she left. Work is nearby, so she arrives just a touch before 10 p.m. Arriving at
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work for her overnight shift. Upon arrival, she is assigned to routine duties, job task that she's carried out prior to
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this night. And co-workers state that Kada appeared normal and calm at the start of this shift. So, at 1000 p.m.
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and just a little after, everything is good. Everything is all right. Now, the early reports on this case state that
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between 10:30 and 10:45 p.m., this is the last known sighting of Kada. She reportedly stepped outside during
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her shift and never returned with zero witnesses able to confirm where she went after this time period. Now, folks out
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there that have been following this case with this one, Captain, the city of brotherly love, the home of the tush
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push, the good people of Philly have been watching, dialed in and praying for Kada and praying for the family as well.
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So again, this case moves quickly and we get some better, more detailed information about the night in question,
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the night that Kada went missing. So, here's what we got. Just after 10 p.m., a co-orker
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says that they saw Kada Scott outside of the workplace. The co-orker said Kada appeared to be upset about something.
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She was on her cell phone and was overheard saying, "I can't believe you're calling me about this shit." A
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short time later, she is allegedly seen walking toward a dark color vehicle. This vehicle is parked outside the work
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facility and she's seen walking toward this vehicle approximately a short time before the vehicle left this area. Then
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at 10:24, okay, mind you, minutes before this, everything is good, everything's okay,
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everything's all right, as everyone has reported. At 10:24, this is the time marker when police say that Kada's cell
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phone stopped all network contact. So at 10:24, Kada Scott's phone goes offline,
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never to come back online again. It's the next day, Sunday, October 5th, that Kada Scott's mother reported her missing
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after she failed to come home from work. This is when we quickly learn about her
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phone stopping all activity the night before. And also we learn that Kada's vehicle was found still in the parking
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lot of her workplace. So let's run this down here quickly if we can. We got October 4th, Saturday night, 10:30ish to
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10:45. Last known sighting of Kada. She reportedly stepped outside during her shift and never returned.
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No witnesses have confirmed where she went after. We know that Kada does not return inside the facility at any time.
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Cell phone activity stops at this time. Now, Saturday becomes Sunday. It's 6:00 a.m. Her work shift ends at this time.
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She's she's 10 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. She does not check out of work. Co-workers notice this. They try to contact her.
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She doesn't respond to these messages. Meanwhile, her car remains parked in the employee lot and then reported missing.
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We do know too, Captain, that later that day, I'm assuming shortly after, this would be the morning of the 5th, her
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family, they're out searching local routes between her home and the workplace, and they search the work
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facility parking lot. They find that her keys, her cell phone, and other belongings are missing. Now, exactly
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what those other belongings are, we've not been informed of that information as of this recording.
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This from Jump Street has got to appear as a likely abduction. And I want that cell phone information,
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Captain. All of it. PPD gets it. And cell phone records show that Kada received 12 calls from the
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same number between 9:25 p.m. and 1012 p.m. And there are some strange text exchanges going on as well.
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>> Well, let me tell you, even though I'm a fan of talking on the phone, that's 12
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calls too many. So, at 10:09 p.m., Kada sends a text to someone saying, "Seem when you here. So, call me when you're
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here." At 10:15 p.m., investigators say that Kada's phone and the phone that she is texting,
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the phone that she's communicating with, those two phones appear together in the
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parking lot of Kada's place of employment. this based off of the cell phone data.
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>> Yes. Again, we have to go off that data because we don't have security cameras
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on this parking lot. >> So that's when trying to line all these things up, they believe that Kada Scott
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walked toward a dark colored vehicle that was parked outside of her work and then that vehicle leaves a short time or
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immediately after. And we already talked about her being reported missing the next day and her family's efforts of
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trying to find their daughter and their sister. So to extend that timeline out a
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little bit further here, let's go to the day after she's reported missing and in
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the next day or two. What we have going on is a flurry of activity. We have police that are trying to trace her cell
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phone activity. They believe they they get some information that tells them that that the last possible signal might
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be near this Aubrey or a Aubrey arboritum and we're going to talk about this a little bit more because there the
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information comes out. This is not far from her work. That's what we should note here. And we know that at the same
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time, the family's organizing searches with members of the community and officers are busy interviewing
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co-workers, family, and recent contacts. This is when they're going to learn about not just her cell phone activity,
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but also the harassing phone calls that she has told others about prior to her going missing.
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>> Yeah. Because if we don't have that record, if I'm police and I'm going, okay, this young lady is starting her
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professional career, but she texts somebody, you know, to basically come here and then she meets somebody in the
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parking lot. I don't necessarily think you jump to the idea of abduction or kidnapping. To me, you kind of go,
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"Well, did she just go, I worked this job for a couple weeks and I don't like it. I'm leaving." I I get that. For me,
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her car being there tells me no. Tells me not. And I'm always, maybe it's I'm damaged goods from doing this show for
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too long. But when I see an outgoing, attractive young woman in her early 20s, disappears from a parking lot, and her
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car is still there. I look, that's unfortunately doing this for so long. One thing that we've seen time and time
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again is a lot of these perpetrators in abductions and homicides and sexual assaults and rapes, a lot of these
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perpetrators, where where do they fall in the course of their lives when we are talking about them? Often times they're
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in their their early they're in their 20s, >> right? >> There's so many of these bad guys that
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we've talked about have been in their 20s. And one thing we know that statistics pan out is that often times
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victims and the perpetrators are similar in age. That's just what the stats say.
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And so when I see a a potential Miss Pennsylvania who goes missing from her place of work and she's receiving
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harassing phone calls or at least has told people that. >> No, I understand that. But I'm saying if
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you're law enforcement and you have no knowledge of the harassing phone calls, all that we know is that she came into
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work. It's not like she came into she's parking her car at 9:50 and on her way into work, she just never made it in,
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>> but she made it into work and she had communication with somebody >> and then she doesn't come back to work.
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And my other my other thing that I'd wonder, and again, I don't think we're privy to this. I don't think this has
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been released, but you have a worker, and I know that she's a newer worker, but you have a worker that shows up to
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work. You must somebody must have seen her leave and go to the parking lot to talk to somebody. Did they report that
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after a couple hours of her not showing up? Did they report that to her family? I don't know. No, these are all very
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good points. And we do have the we do have the the problem here is with attempting to deliver
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all of this information is that some of it's coming out and some of it is protective protected information that's
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coming out. Right. There's a lot to this case and I feel like there's a lot more
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that's going to come out in the coming months and I think you're tapping into something here. Captain, we do know per
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the words of investigators that there was some form of eyewitness in that parking lot that that at least places
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Kada there. We do know that somehow between communications of her work and her family that she's fairly quickly
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reported as missing. And we do know that co-workers did take notice that she didn't check out when her job ended at
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6:00 a.m. on that morning. >> Well, to your point about her car, her car being there is a a [clears throat]
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bigger issue when when she doesn't come back the next day or at the end of the shift, her car is still there. But the
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big question mark that we have to be circling around is something that you pointed out. She wasn't abducted on her
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way into work. She wasn't Nobody attempted to abduct her at her home where she left. She's abducted after
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willingly leaving the building. She may not have willingly left the parking lot,
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but something got her to go outside. And that's where this communications and the
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cell phone information is so interesting in this case because what it does is it
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not only points to the person very likely responsible for why she left that parking lot, but it also brings up a lot
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of questions as to why she was meeting this person or would have gone out to the parking lot in the first place.
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friends. Cheers to everybody out there. And happy holidays. during the days of October 6th through the 9th. It's got to
00:32:07
be this cell phone activity that's and the the talks with interviewing co-workers, family, and others
00:32:16
learning of this harassing communications that's going to lead up to a big marker in this timeline because
00:32:24
a big marker is 1010 25 October 10th, 2025. Philadelphia police, they have K-9 units
00:32:33
involved. They're conducting a largecale search in East German Town. This area here, there there's kind of a lot
00:32:41
compacted into this larger area. So, we have a middle school that is no longer in operation. And there's a rec center
00:32:52
in this area as well. I believe there's also a high school, but the high school and the rec center is still active. Um,
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they're out there searching this area. There's wooded areas around all of these buildings as well and these structures.
00:33:07
They're searching and the the result what we're told here is that even after expanding the search to surrounding
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wooding wooded areas that they come away with, look, we found no nothing of evidentiary value here. It's interesting
00:33:27
to me though because we keep circling around the cell phone information and it's been reported that this area was
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searched based off of cell phone data. Part of that is the statement that the last known signal came from this general
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area. So here's where we have a couple of thoughts, right? If you want to if you want to put in your speculation
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here, why would her phone go to this area? Couple reasons. We know it's missing from the parking lot. We know
00:33:59
it's missing from her car. This could be when you go out to search this place, you're wondering cuz could this be a
00:34:05
dump site? Or you don't find anything. And now you have to be wondering, is this a a transfer spot? Is she being
00:34:14
handed off? Is or is she being moved in some form or fashion? And this location plays a role in the movement of this
00:34:24
victim. By this time, the families, they're begging for help. They are distributing missing persons flyers
00:34:33
citywide. The case does spread. The news of this case spreads pretty quickly. >> Yeah,
00:34:39
>> we were we don't live I mean, we live in a neighboring state, but we heard about
00:34:43
her missing rather quickly. And because of this news, we have the media that's on this case and and the police, the
00:34:50
homicide detectives at the time, missing persons detectives, PPD are simply saying it's an it's an ongoing
00:34:57
investigation, but I'm a little curious about this because we have others getting involved, right? We This is a
00:35:05
missing person's case. What tells me that they believe or they have information telling them that this is an
00:35:12
abduction is that we get the homicide unit from Philadelphia involved in this case. And this is just days after they
00:35:21
give up the search or a day after they give up the search at that area that we were talking about. And they go on to
00:35:28
say that evidence suggests to them that Kada did not leave that parking lot voluntarily.
00:35:35
>> Yeah. Yeah. And I think the speculation is if they have cell phone data and we
00:35:40
have two cell phones that are connected and then one goes offline, well, why did
00:35:44
that go offline? And like you said, it's not found in the parking lot. It's not found in her car. And so you can then
00:35:51
track the the movements of the second cell phone of the individual that she met to try to figure out other locations
00:35:59
cuz we don't have any surveillance footage to to tell us who that person is. But we have digital forensics that
00:36:07
tells us who that person is or at least who owns that cell phone. >> This is where the case gets complicated.
00:36:14
I mean, we've seen the complications already, but it's we got to be clear here. It's weird because we have the
00:36:21
homicide unit gets involved officially a joins the investigation. However, police
00:36:27
maintain that the case is active and ongoing and they do not declare it a homicide at the time. Then the following
00:36:35
day, the Philadelphia Police Department announces that they arrested a man in connection with Kada Scott's
00:36:44
disappearance. They state that they arrested a young man, Keon King, aged 21, and they're
00:36:53
booking him on kidnapping charges connecting him to Kada's disappearance. >> This guy seems to be a dirt bag. I mean,
00:37:01
he has, I believe, kidnapping charges that were filed against him and I think maybe assault charges or domestic
00:37:08
violence charges against him, but those charges were all dropped because the victim didn't show up to court to
00:37:17
testify. My question is, well, is that victim still with us? And we'll get into that in just a second here because on
00:37:27
this date, we learned that he or can believe based off of police and investigator statements, they're saying
00:37:35
King was in communication with Kada in the days before she went missing. Okay. So, it's not a big leap to suggest that
00:37:42
he's the guy that was harassing her, >> right? And then they recover a 1999 Toyota Camry that has damage to the
00:37:52
front end of this vehicle. And it's believed that this vehicle is linked in some manner to the case. Also, on the
00:38:03
day of his arrest, we have investigators that are out searching again. This time,
00:38:07
they are at that abandoned middle school that I had talked about and referenced earlier. This is the Ada Lewis Middle
00:38:15
School. This is near that arburetum. >> Yeah. You want to talk about a very spooky area to be taken to. You you
00:38:24
wonder, like you said, is it a transfer area or is it a a place that people go to because it's a it's a well-known but
00:38:31
but a big public space that's abandoned. These are types of places that people go
00:38:36
to to commit criminal activity >> when they're out there searching this area. We learned that physical evidence was
00:38:44
recovered in this general area. Some reports stating that it was personal items belonging to Kada Scott. Now, that
00:38:54
same day, bail is set at $2.5 million for this Keon King. >> He's charged with kidnapping, but states
00:39:03
that there could be related pending charges. We get the FBI that joins the investigation. By now, the family's got
00:39:11
to be terrified. It's been It's been almost two weeks since she was last seen, and you got a guy in custody
00:39:19
booked on kidnapping charges, kidnapping Kada Scott charges, and no Kada Scott. >> Yeah.
00:39:26
>> Terrifying stuff. >> And if we believe that digital forensics, he was located in an area
00:39:34
that, like I said, is very scary area. This vehicle was recovered from a condominium complex
00:39:45
not terribly far away, I guess. Gypsy Lane condominiums, >> but it wasn't recovered fully. Right
00:39:51
>> here. Let's dive into this Keon King's timeline because this is the scary stuff
00:39:56
that's coming out about this guy while she is still missing. So, we learned very quickly that in January of this
00:40:04
year of 2025, Keon King was accused of kidnapping and strangling a woman. So, this is kidnapped with assault. And as
00:40:14
the captain pointed out, charges were eventually dropped. The victim thankfully survived the attack, but did
00:40:21
not appear in court. So, charges dropped. We should point out here too that that kidnapping with strangulation
00:40:34
was just sort of the tip of the iceberg here. There was a lot of charges and we see this a lot of times in cases so it's
00:40:42
not completely unheard of where they will charge someone to the full extent and then you you may see those charges
00:40:50
morph a bit but it there was a lot of assaults and there was something in there that was I found to be weird. One
00:40:59
of the charges stemming from that January kidnapping was something of terroristic nature.
00:41:09
Threats of terroristic nature. And especially this crazy world we live in today. It's like we should take all
00:41:14
these whether they're online threats or they're text message threats, we should take them as serious as
00:41:22
possible. And again, this victim doesn't show up, so the charges are dropped. begs the question of why. Why did she
00:41:31
not show up? I don't think it's because this event didn't happen. We have proof of some of this event. I think what's
00:41:37
more likely is this individual was probably harassed herself. She was kidnapped. She was strangled. You could
00:41:44
argue it. I mean, strangulation. It's attempted murder more so than assault. So, why didn't she show up? I think it's
00:41:53
more I think it's more likely because that she's either being harassed or or threatened
00:42:00
in order not to show up. >> That could stem from those threats of terroristic nature, right? Because if
00:42:08
what that implies to me, what that tells me is when you're charging him with that
00:42:12
at the same time as the kidnapping, as the assault, as the attempted murder, that means those threats occurred prior
00:42:20
to or at the same time as that attack. The terrifying thing here, Captain, would be he may have terrorized this
00:42:30
victim and then later made good on those threats. And that may have scared the [ __ ] out of this person. So much so that
00:42:39
that when it came time to go and face their accused. Yeah. >> They could not do that. They physically
00:42:47
couldn't bring themselves to. They were too scared. The other thing here that I have a suspicion in is that there is
00:42:53
somebody else. There's more than one party involved in that attack. And there's there's everything to suggest to
00:43:02
us that whatever exactly happened to Kada Scott that there was another person involved with this situation as well. So
00:43:11
let's we're going to go to the night before. So let's go the day before Kada is last seen. So this would be October
00:43:18
3rd. It's a Friday. And we learned that a 2008 black Hyundai Accent was stolen. And this was not a violent carjacking.
00:43:28
This was simply there was a food delivery driver left the vehicle unattended running. Somebody saw an
00:43:35
opportunity, hopped in the vehicle and drove off. What we do learn is that this is the vehicle or at least police say
00:43:43
that they believe that this stolen car, this Hyundai was used to meet up with Kada Scott the following night. And then
00:43:51
we get court documents that are going to come out. That's that is the one good thing that we have here in the reporting
00:43:58
of this story is that when you have an arrest, you get some court documents and you can review them and it fills in some
00:44:05
of these gaps for us. So, the court documents reveal text messages between Kada Scott and this Keon King from
00:44:14
September 28th to October 4th. Remember, the 4th is the day that she disappeared.
00:44:19
And they say on the 4th at 10:07 p.m. according to an affidavit of probable cause that Kada allegedly text Keon
00:44:30
King, "Kidnap me again." To which he replies, "Better be up to." And then we don't get we don't get the details here,
00:44:41
but they state in this document that this was followed up by plans to meet later that night.
00:44:48
And then documents revealed that the last text exchange occurred. That was the one that we reported earlier. CM
00:44:56
when you here. >> Yeah. So, call me when you're here. But she text him, "Kidn me again."
00:45:03
>> That's what the reports are. >> That's That's very strange. Thi this is one of those cases where we feel very
00:45:12
compelled to report on this and very compelled to talk about this but when you start getting into it
00:45:19
>> I referenced the muck and the meer earlier and that's what this one is it gets a little dicey on the details here
00:45:26
and I I feel like we're walking a dangerous tight rope of what the hell does that mean kidnap me
00:45:34
again? And there's other reports out there too that state that she might not have been fully aware of who she was
00:45:43
talking with. There there's rumor out there. I should I should say rumor. Rumor would be a better
00:45:48
>> term to use. >> The rumor out there is that this guy might have been able to disguise his
00:45:54
phone somehow. Again, we need to learn why if this was some kind of meetup, why they were meeting up. One. Two.
00:46:04
What we do know from the witness, let's go to the witness because the witness in
00:46:09
the parking lot says that Kada appeared to be agitated. She appeared to be upset
00:46:14
and her words that she overheard Kada say is, "Oh, you're going to call me about this shit?" Yeah. I think the
00:46:20
tough thing too is I don't think we're privy to all the harassment text before and I don't think we're privy to the
00:46:29
exchanges. And this is where it gets very complicated because you could have somebody harassing you like you get a
00:46:37
random message from some unknown number. Well, you might you might never reply. So then therefore there's no
00:46:47
interaction. But sometimes if somebody starts sending you this threatening nonsense, you might eventually think,
00:46:57
well, maybe if I say, hey, who is this? What is this about? That maybe you can figure out why this person is contacting
00:47:06
you. Do they know it's you that you're con that they are contacting? And so I've seen online where people
00:47:15
jump to these speculations of, well, there's sometimes that she's being harassed and sometimes where she's
00:47:22
replying. Well, just because she's replying doesn't mean she wasn't being continually harassed. And so her
00:47:29
replying to this individual could just be [clears throat] simply stop texting me or leave me alone. And for all we
00:47:37
know, again, no evidence of this, but we don't know how well she knew this individual. We don't know how well she
00:47:45
knew King. Right. And >> or if she knew him at all. >> If she knew him at all. Exactly.
00:47:50
>> Look, you Okay. So, I want to try to push on through the online speculation because I don't think it's helpful in
00:47:57
this case, especially when we're, as you pointed out, not privy to the details. and there we're not going to be
00:48:05
for good reason until this investigation's able to take the next steps that I think it's going to take.
00:48:14
So, let's let's say one thing here cuz I've seen some say like the a reaction to that that kidnap me again
00:48:22
as being some kind of that indicator that they know each other or that they were acting something out. I've also
00:48:29
seen speculation that there might have been some kind of drug deal that might be happening. People are doing their
00:48:34
best to try to sort out why she would willingly walk out of the building and then maybe not willingly leave that
00:48:41
parking lot. And I that's a big question mark in this whole case. But can you imagine let's pretend here for a minute
00:48:51
because what we will learn and what we do absolutely know about this case is you're going to have a bad guy. I think
00:48:58
there's multiple bad people involved and you're going to have a victim. One thing
00:49:01
we know for certain is Kada Scott is a victim. So, let's try to put ourselves in the shoes of the victim. That's the
00:49:09
best thing that we can do to try to help our victim at this time when we're going
00:49:14
to speculate what's going on. Can you imagine if you get a text from somebody that you don't know or you do know and
00:49:19
they say, "I'm going to kidnap you again." It's not unheard of that the person would reply, "Kidnap me again."
00:49:26
question mark. >> Well, and some people don't put >> or don't put punctuation. >> Exactly. I mean, that's very possible.
00:49:35
>> Here in the garage, we don't even speak with punctuation. >> I'm Ron Burgundy.
00:49:39
>> I'm Ron Burgundy. So, let's not >> But here's where we're at in the story, though.
00:49:44
>> Yeah. >> This this young girl starting her career goes to the goes to her place of
00:49:50
employment. She's being harassed for weeks. She goes to meet somebody in the parking lot. She's now missing for over
00:49:58
2 weeks. We have that's a crime scene. Her work parking lot is a crime scene, but on top of that, we have indication
00:50:07
that they went or whoever she was with went to this abandoned elementary school. So now we're searching there
00:50:15
with K9 dogs. We have FBI all involved, but I think they get a tip from somebody
00:50:23
because like you said, whether it's one perpetrator, two perpetrators, or a gang
00:50:29
of perpetrators, I think somebody started talking and then somebody relayed that information
00:50:34
to law enforcement. That's what the reports are. Here's what's fascinating about the investigation to me is that
00:50:43
it's the cell phone information. As soon as they figure out, we shouldn't say who, we should say what phone. As soon
00:50:50
as they are able to figure out what phone Kada Scott's phone is communicating with, that's going to tell
00:50:56
them everything. Is that same phone that she's communicating with at the last known time that she is seen, is that the
00:51:03
same phone that's communicating with her during these harassing and concerning communications that she's getting that
00:51:09
she notified her folks about that her family about and her friends about. So right away whether or not you can you
00:51:18
once you figure out that phone now we're going to track the movements of that phone prior to Kada going missing and
00:51:28
after her going missing. So what we are going to learn here is they know a lot about this phone before they ever know
00:51:36
what happened to Kada Scott. This phone tells them that, oh, the same phone that
00:51:43
pulled up in the parking lot to meet Kada the night she went missing is also in the same location where a vehicle the
00:51:52
night before was reported as stolen. Well, that's interesting. Now, we know we're looking for two things. We're
00:52:00
tracing a phone and now we want to track that Hyundai that was stolen as well. So, between the phone information and
00:52:09
the Hyundai information, they're going to go to all local businesses, uh, Ring doorbell cameras, Simply Safe cameras.
00:52:18
They're going to go and pull any information they can in the surrounding area of this facility where Kada Scott
00:52:26
works. And what the information is going to tell them is, hey, we can trace, we're now tracing a dark colored vehicle
00:52:34
that is similar to this Hyundai. and we're tracing this phone. So, using cell phone technology, investigators figure
00:52:41
out that Keon King, he's staying or living, it's a little murky on the details here. in the 5,500 block of
00:52:51
Belmar Terrace. Then they learn that shortly after the time that Kada leaves that parking lot, a dark colored vehicle
00:53:01
matching, similar in description to that Hyundai is seen on surveillance camera footage
00:53:08
pulling into that recreation center parking lot across the street from this abandoned Ada Lewis Middle School. And
00:53:16
because of that information is why they did the initial search. >> And then we have King's cell phone that
00:53:23
is tracked taking multiple trips from that Belmar Terrace address and the area surrounding that vacant Ada Lewis Middle
00:53:33
School. Multiple trips. This on Sunday, October 5th. Let's go to 11:39 p.m. that
00:53:40
night. a vehicle similar to a Toyota Camry, which is so this is a gold 1999 Toyota Camry that is registered, police
00:53:48
say is registered to Keon King, is seen on video pulling into the parking lot near where the dark colored vehicle was
00:53:57
parked the night before. They say that they two people exit this vehicle. Mhm. And then 4 hours later, two individuals
00:54:06
appear to take a large object, which news reports say consistent with a body >> looks like
00:54:12
>> out of the passenger side of that vehicle. Unfortunately, and the cap the captain's absolutely right. We again the
00:54:20
details on this we don't know but the statement is that unfortunately on October 18th. So remember they were in
00:54:29
this area searching for a bit on the 10th and expanding that search on the 11th 12th and 13th per reports but
00:54:39
they're back in this general area on October 18th. And it's that morning following an anonymous tip that it's
00:54:49
been reported came from the public. Investigators are now searching a wooded area that is behind that abandoned Lewis
00:54:58
Middle School located near the arboritum that we've referenced and they found a shallow grave. So you find disturbed
00:55:08
earth >> and now you start digging. They recover the remains of a female. They report
00:55:16
immediately that it's a female. They stop short of saying that it's Kada Scott, but later the medical examiner
00:55:25
and staff will confirm that unfortunately it was the body of Kada Scott. >> Yeah. And it makes you wonder what that
00:55:32
tip was. I mean, even if the tip was just, hey, I know you guys search this area,
00:55:38
but either you got to search here or s search there, but like you said, if we have surveillance that puts two
00:55:45
individuals now, we're not, you know, you can arrest King all you want, but there's another individual involved. And
00:55:51
then it makes you wonder who gave this tip. And also, is there more than two people involved?
00:55:58
>> And how many people were involved in the actual murder, right? because we know
00:56:02
that somebody's involved in helping move the body, >> right? >> How many were involved in the actual
00:56:07
murder? So, in the following days, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office report that Kada Scott's cause of death
00:56:16
was ruled a homicide and this was from a gunshot wound to the head. No further details on that. This domino effect is
00:56:25
Keon King is charged with firstdegree murder and additional charges which are robbery, abuse of a corpse, tampering
00:56:35
with evidence, theft, and criminal conspiracy. >> Criminal conspiracy. Yeah, this is a
00:56:42
difficult one because it seemed like she had a bright future ahead and and you don't know if this person
00:56:50
forced their way into her life or if she, you know, met this individual and and he did a con job on her. You don't
00:57:00
know. >> And you had referenced earlier that the complications with some of the vehicle
00:57:08
information here. So, while all this is going on and prior to finding Kada's body in that shallow grave in the
00:57:18
wooded area, it's October 7th that firefighters are responding to a vehicle fire in the middle of the night. This is
00:57:27
in the small hours of the morning. They they recover this vehicle and the the burned out vehicle was
00:57:36
identified as that stolen Hyundai that the delivery driver had reported stolen. And this was ruled an arson,
00:57:44
>> right? So, let me uh try to piece this all together. We have evidence that probably links this cell phone to King.
00:57:52
King is then linked to the stealing of this car or in that area of where the car was stolen. Then we have him linked
00:58:00
to meeting her in the parking lot. Then we have him linked to to going to this, let's just call it a educational
00:58:08
facility where we have multiple buildings, but we have one abandoned building. >> Then we have this surveillance footage
00:58:15
that puts that stolen car in that area with two individuals moving something that looks like a body. We do a search,
00:58:23
we find nothing, and then somebody gives us a tip. good for that freaking person
00:58:29
>> because how many people are sitting on information that could solve a case that
00:58:34
just never come forward and I understand that some people could be scared but this individual again don't know who it
00:58:41
was but they did the right thing they told the police search again so they search again we find the body but we
00:58:48
also find the car that was stolen somebody lights it on fire why did they light it on fire to get rid of evidence
00:58:56
and Now we have him sitting in jail with a mountain of charges and I'm guessing that they're getting a mountain of
00:59:04
evidence to mount a case against this son of a [ __ ] >> Yeah, it's the the dots that we need connected here
00:59:16
obviously are who phoned in this anonymous tip, who was assisting in moving Kada's body. I'm really curious, too. I
00:59:28
think that everything here is telling me that unfortunately she was killed rather
00:59:32
quickly, fairly shortly after this abduction because because of all the movements that we believe
00:59:40
Keon King is up to. And remember, it's easy to look at this and go, "Well, she's not found until the 18th, and she
00:59:48
goes missing on the 4th. There's two weeks that go by." But the movements here tell me that this probably all
00:59:56
happened very quickly. Remember, we have the the vehicle that was used. We have the vehicle arson on the 7th,
01:00:02
>> right? >> And then we have police searching that home connected to Keon King, that Belmar
01:00:10
Terrace home. They're searching that place on the 9th. Okay. And so here's what the report is. A search of this
01:00:19
house turns up. Contractor bags, a hammer, and ammunition were found. I did find a single report that says
01:00:30
the a card belonging to the victim and a phone case were found. So >> So we have some forensic evidence
01:00:39
connecting her just to his house. >> Correct. Correct. And and I don't know if that we have to kind of circle back
01:00:48
to that report prior of of being told that some of her personal items that were not identified uh that were found
01:00:56
prior if if this is just kind of one report morphing into the other. But what we do know that that what goes along
01:01:04
with this search when they recover these contractor bags and a hammer and other items. They do take there's two women
01:01:15
that are living there. They take both of these women that live there. They're detained. They bring them in. They
01:01:21
interview them extensively, but they are released. Okay. They did seize phones, a
01:01:28
tablet, gloves, contractor bags, a hammer, and 9mm ammunition is the report. Both women, both of these women
01:01:36
give statements referencing phone calls to Kada Scott and from the suspect's devices,
01:01:46
>> right? But this is one that the police are still asking for the public's help because as said
01:01:56
clearly somebody else is involved in this. We know that King is booked. We don't know if he's talking. If he is
01:02:04
talking, how much is he saying? >> Right. >> There's a report that authorities are
01:02:08
investigating a video posted to Tik Tok that may be connected to Kada's disappearance. Can't we just go back to
01:02:15
people posting their freaking salads that they're eating >> or kittens? I loved it when it was kittens and I'm
01:02:22
not even a cat guy. >> When it was just all cat videos. Well, no. Puka, not hotada. Old Luca Magna
01:02:31
ruined cat videos for everybody. But these cases that are happening and that are unfolding in the public as we speak,
01:02:39
they're they are interesting to cover. They they they do create some challenges though, right? We we only know so much.
01:02:47
There was only so much released. And obviously whether he makes a deal >> or he goes to trial, this old [ __ ] king,
01:02:55
we're going to learn a lot more information about what happened in the details of this crime.
01:03:01
>> Yeah. This this guy here is king of the [ __ ] pit. >> Old [ __ ] king. Currently,
01:03:11
the situation sits at this at the time of this recording that there was supposed to be some form of preliminary
01:03:19
hearing in mid November. The defense council has asked for a continuence and from my understanding, captain, this
01:03:30
will be February 2nd when Keon King is due to return to court. And I'm hoping and praying
01:03:41
that between now and February 2nd that we can find out more information. Who else has been involved and what other
01:03:51
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