Missing Philadelphia Woman Found Dead
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Philadelphia police discovered the remains of a pregnant woman who’d been missing for a month, and arrested the father of her unborn child.
Stephen Poaches was to be charged with two counts of murder and related offenses for the deaths of 24-year-old LaToyia Figueroa and her fetus.
Relatives and friends had papered the city with fliers and held searches for Figueroa. A reward fund for information had reached $100,000, including donations from the restaurant where she worked.
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