Posted on 08/20/2005 8:55:37 AM PDT by Smogger
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police announced Saturday that they have charged the 25-year-old former boyfriend of LaToyia Figueroa with her death.
Stephen Poaches, of West Philadelphia, the missing pregnant woman's former boyfriend and the father of her unborn baby, was charged with the murder of the 24-year-old woman.
Figueroa has been missing for a month.
Philadelphia police recovered her remains early Saturday in nearby Chester, located about 13 miles southwest of Philadelphia.
When Poaches was arrested in Chester, police said he was wearing a bullet proof vest and was carrying a pistol.
LaToyia Figueroa's father, Melvin Figueroa, said he was relieved that an arrest had been made.
"Now she can rest in peace," he said. "All I want is justice with that peace."
Figueroa, who was five months' pregnant when she disappeared and already the mother of a young girl, was last seen on the afternoon of July 18 in West Philadelphia. Police received a missing persons report July 21, McClane said.
The remains were recovered in a grassy, partially wooded lot near homes and a road in Chester. The area was cordoned off by yellow police tape Saturday morning.
A few dozen members of the Figueroa family and supporters arrived at the scene shortly after daybreak, clustering close to the police tape and embracing each other.
They declined to comment to reporters.
Relatives and friends, who have papered the city with flyers and held large-scale searches for any sign of Figueroa, had just marked the one-month anniversary of her disappearance. A reward fund for information had reached $100,000.
Easily.......Some reporters are just not cut out for certain types of stories and can make mistakes, while at the same time being absolutely superb in other areas.
When are the stupid girls going to learn that there is no need to buy a cow and support it, when men can get milk for free? It seems that they never learn.
Thanks for the ping.
This is sad indeed, though we probably all guessed it would turn out this way.
http://www.nbc10.com/news/4876275/detail.html
"Abraham said Stephen Pouches, 25, was also found with a bullet-proof vest and a pistol when he was taken into custody early Saturday morning.
Sources tell NBC 10 police had been observing Pouches and were in Chester last night as he apparently tried to dispose of Figueroa's body in a wooded area around midnight."
I wonder if poaches had been holding her alive somewhere?
In the presser, I heard them mention the bulletproof vest, pistol, and LE caught him w/the body. I thought they said they'd "caught him moving the body."
My impression was that he was caught moving the body..I wonder where he kept her dead body if so? I do not know the actual amount decomposition or if he indeed kept her alive for awhile. We have to wait on the autopsy.
They may know the actual crime scene by now and not be telling.
Kidnapping could be one of the charges they are considering?
May God comfort her loved ones who are mourning.
Hacking, Peterson, etc.
Perhaps the problem in Aruba is that the suspect is behind bars. If he were free and under surveillance he might lead us to the body.
In medieval England, depending upon which town you lived in, the death penalty was acted on in different ways - for example, one town would bury their prisoners alive, another would throw them off a cliff.
I suggest this fellow gets doused in petrol and someone flips a match at him.
Regards, Ivan
Mine, too.
If she's been in the heat/humidity for a month, decomposition would be very advanced, but IF he's had her alive all this time and only killed her say, yesterday, the body would be in good condition.
If he had her body stashed all this time, why bother to move it elswhere now? Wouldn't make any sense.
I think kidnapping is a given in this case.
Poaches has had an attorney since day one, I am surprised he did not advise his client, "LE is likely watching your every move."
Exactly! It's much easier to
walk than to kill. One can never get
walk away from killing...well, not for
long. Sooner or later, one gets caught.
Murderers do stupid things after the crime..and against their lawyers advise...because they think they are so clever,I suppose.
Of course we wonder first of all, why would he go back after all this time to move her? Answer: Because he's moved her before. He probably had her in a cool or cold spot....or held her and killed her later. That will be easy enough to find out.
God Bless her soul, the baby and the family.
He needs lots of prayers also.
See #43
I think the difference might fall withing the range of their bias. If they're biased against a certain subject (such as President Bush, for instance) their reporting will reflect that bias because they've never learned journalistic restraint. They think they can report their opinions as if they were facts. They think they can change their reporting if the facts don't fit their opinions.
On a crime story, they usually don't have a dog in that particular fight, so in general (emphasis on "in general"), they will report a story as it is, with some factual errors usually related to carelessness or laziness.
They can be very inventive, though, when concocting stories that suit their political bias.
Re: the vest--Fox also mentioned in that same report that he'd received a lot of death threats from her family and friends. They knew, by golly, and they got him rattled enough he did something really stupid.
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