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The medical examiner's office said Thursday that Scott had been
shot in the head.
To support arson and conspiracy charges against King in Scott’s
disappearance, a city detective wrote in an affidavit this week
that one of Scott’s co-workers reported seeing her upset outside
their workplace at about 10 p.m. on Oct. 4, the night she
disappeared. The coworker reportedly heard Scott say “I can’t
believe you’re calling me” before she walked toward a parked
SUV.
Video footage from the area where Scott’s body was found showed
two people get out of a vehicle around 11:30 p.m. the night
after Scott disappeared. Around 4 a.m., they are shown removing
“a heavy object, consistent with a human body” out of the
passenger’s side of a car and then carrying it “in the general
direction” of where Scott’s body was recovered from a shallow
grave nearly two weeks later, according to the police affidavit.
When an anonymous tip led police to again search that area,
which is near an abandoned school, they found a spot with
freshly disturbed earth. Scott’s remains were recovered and DNA
was tested to confirm her identity.
Police also obtained texts between Scott and a person they
believe was King over the week before Scott disappeared, saying
King identified himself as Kel. At about 10 a.m. the morning
Scott disappeared, she texted that number to say “kidnap me
again,” the detective wrote. “Kel” responded “better be up too.”
King, of Dover, Delaware, was arrested earlier this year in
another case, but posted $200,000 bail and was released. In that
case King was accused of kidnapping a woman from in front of her
house and forcing her into a car where she was assaulted and
eventually let go. Charges were dropped after the victim and a
witness did not appear for court proceedings.
Scott's parents have described their daughter as exhibiting
“light, kindness and beautiful spirit.”
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