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  2. Apr 23, 2021 · Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, was strangled and stabbed in the neck by Justo Smoker, 35, who was arrested in connection with her disappearance and murder. She was found with her remains behind his previous place of employment in Lancaster County. The coroner's office determined her cause of death as asphyxia due to strangulation and suffocation.

  3. Apr 22, 2021 · The 18-year-old's family confirmed the human remains found by police in a rural area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, belonged to her. She vanished 10 months ago while on her way home from church with a suspect who was arrested in July. The suspect, Justo Smoker, was charged with murder and kidnapping.

  4. Apr 24, 2021 · LANCASTER, Pa. — A young Amish woman whose remains were found this week, 10 months after her disappearance, was strangled and stabbed in the neck, a coroner ruled Friday. The Lancaster County...

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    Those in court Friday learned for the first time that Smoker sought a plea deal in April so authorities could return Stoltzfoos’ body to her family. Defense attorney Christopher Tellarico told the court Smoker asked his lawyers to stop fighting the charges. “It was a point where he could come forward. The solution had some redemptive value,” Tellar...

    Court records indicated that Stoltzfoos was walking home to change out of her church clothes shortly after noon that Sunday, which was Father’s Day. She had planned to pick up a dessert she’d made for her youth group, which was meeting from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. that afternoon. She never made it home. Her parents called the police early the next mornin...

    Ashworth described Smoker as “a predator of the worst kind and an extreme danger to the community.” The judge urged the state parole board to sentence Smoker to the maximum for his parole violation, citing his belief that the convicted killer cannot be rehabilitated. Tallarico sees his client in a more favorable light. “I still have a hard time com...

  5. Apr 22, 2021 · Human remains have been found in the search for Linda Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman who was last seen walking home from church last year. A man has been charged with killing her.

  6. Updated: 9:59 AM EDT Apr 23, 2021. LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — The Lancaster County coroner has confirmed that remains found in eastern Lancaster County are those of Linda Stoltzfoos, an...

  7. Apr 22, 2021 · A homicide charge was added in late December after prosecutors determined that the “passing of time, along with the complete cessation of all routine activities led to the inevitable conclusion...

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