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Former boyfriend charged with LaToyia Figueroa's death (body found)
Penn Live.com ^ | 8/20/2005, 10:51 a.m. ET | AP

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: domesticviolence; infanticide; killer; latoyiafigueroa; mom2bekiller; philadelphia; philedelphia; philly; significantother; wifekiller; womankiller
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To: demkicker

Also, Poaches was carrying a gun
and wearing a bullet proof vest.


41 posted on 08/20/2005 10:11:25 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: the Deejay

Well at least he's caught red handed and there won't be any "beyond reasonable doubt" b.s.


42 posted on 08/20/2005 10:12:30 AM PDT by demkicker (Life has many choices. Eternity has only two. Which one have you chosen?)
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To: joesnuffy

Very clever, according to the way his name is spelled. But I have heard it pronounced "Po-shay", as if it were French, on Nancy Grace and Greta.


43 posted on 08/20/2005 10:14:40 AM PDT by txrangerette
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To: Smogger

This is tragic.


44 posted on 08/20/2005 10:14:40 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: stopem
Speaking of Greta, look how fast this missing woman was found, and look how long it is taking to find Natalee Holloway.

Unlike Aruba, LE in the U.S. is sincerely interested in solving crimes, otherwise Natalee would have been found long ago.

45 posted on 08/20/2005 10:16:10 AM PDT by demkicker (Life has many choices. Eternity has only two. Which one have you chosen?)
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To: CyberAnt

Look at poor Laci Peterson. She did it 'the right way' and for her reward, she was murdered and thrown away like unwanted trash.


46 posted on 08/20/2005 10:16:43 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm having the best day ever.)
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To: MizSterious

OK. Fry him.


47 posted on 08/20/2005 10:17:05 AM PDT by null and void (Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)
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To: PackerBoy

I wonder what the abortion rights bunch would do if his defense was that he was exercising his right to an abortion?


48 posted on 08/20/2005 10:18:28 AM PDT by libsl (I'm just sayin'....)
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To: demkicker

Exactly!


49 posted on 08/20/2005 10:18:32 AM PDT by stopem
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To: fortunecookie

Thank you kindly for the ping fortunecookie. Prayers for Latoyia, her unborn daughter, her 7 year-old daughter and her entire family. They worked tirelessly to try to find her this past month. Just a heartbreaking outcome.


50 posted on 08/20/2005 10:27:04 AM PDT by all4one (All Muslims can be considered "moderate", until they decide to kill as many infidels as possible)
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To: joesnuffy

That is funny. I didn't even read his name.


51 posted on 08/20/2005 10:33:50 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: the Deejay

There was a quick blurb or the news today that the body wasn't very badly decomposed. They were easily able to identify her by two tatoos, one on her wrist and one on her arm. This makes me wonder if she has been deceased for the entire time...or if so where could a body be kept for a month that is hadn't decomposed more. The area where this occured has been in the mid to upper 90's for this past month...so I would think that decomposition would occur more quickly in these temps.


52 posted on 08/20/2005 10:34:32 AM PDT by all4one (All Muslims can be considered "moderate", until they decide to kill as many infidels as possible)
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To: all4one

Good point!

I hadn't heard about decomposition.
But if it's not all that bad, and
a month in the heat.....chances are
she's not been dead all that long.


53 posted on 08/20/2005 10:36:57 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: the Deejay

This info. was on the local PA/NJ/DE area news this morning at around 6:00 a.m. I just checked the news web sites and there is no mention. But the reporter on the scene this morning, was mentioning the ability to easily identify Latoyia by her two tatoos. I can't even imagine what her family and friends are going through. Sadly, at least they do have some closure.


54 posted on 08/20/2005 10:51:30 AM PDT by all4one (All Muslims can be considered "moderate", until they decide to kill as many infidels as possible)
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To: all4one
Tatoos make it easy to identify a body. They remain intact. I'm in Nevada and saw the presser this morning on msnbc.

Latoya's dad identified her body at the coroner's office.

55 posted on 08/20/2005 10:56:40 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: conservatrice
Yes, it's all the fault of the victim. She deserved to die for daring to get pregnant. And the man had nothing to do with that.

i just KNEW someone would take CyberAnt's comment that way... that's not what she said at all... it really isn't...

56 posted on 08/20/2005 11:10:20 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: MizSterious
And if certain men would keep their pants on, they wouldn't be tempted to murder their girlfriends and their babies.

yes--this is true... but we women really do have a lot more power to take care of ourselves... unfortunately many of us are not making better choices... she's dead--he's not...

is it her fault that he killed her? no... but a different choice would "likely" mean that she'd still be alive...

a certain lifestyle doesn't guarantee that one live a long, happy, healthy life, but it can better one's chances...

57 posted on 08/20/2005 11:16:57 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: latina4dubya

I agree with you. And I also don't think CyberAnt was blaming the victim.


58 posted on 08/20/2005 11:19:26 AM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers
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To: AliVeritas

"Taking it personal?" No, just wondering how so many on this forum take reporting on topics like this as gospel, yet excoriate those same reporters on other subjects. If you can't trust them in one arena, why trust them in another?


59 posted on 08/20/2005 11:26:16 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: latina4dubya

yes--this is true... but we women really do have a lot more power to take care of ourselves... unfortunately many of us are not making better choices... she's dead--he's not...

Yeah, Lacy Peterson should have seen that one coming...


60 posted on 08/20/2005 11:26:59 AM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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