Note in pocket of model found dead along I-80 led police to suspect in her killing
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
MILTON – A note found in the pocket of a model whose body was found along Interstate 80 in western Union County led police to charge a Texas man in her death Wednesday.
Tracy Ray Rollins Jr., 28, an over-the-road truck driver from Dallas, Texas, has been charged with homicide and abuse of corpse in the death of Rebecca Landrith, 47, a native of Virginia who worked as a model in New York City. He was arrested in Connecticut.
Landrith’s body was found just before 7 a.m. Sunday by a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) worker on the I-80 eastbound exit ramp at the Mile Run interchange near Loganton.
Rebecca Landrith
MILE RUN The woman whose body was found along Route 80 here was a model in New York City and died from multiple gunshots to the head, the Union County coroner said.
Rebecca Landrith worked as a professional model in the in New York, but on Sunday, the 47 year old from Virginia was found dead along the Mile Run interchange of Interstate 80, just east of Loganton but in Union County.
Coroner Dominick Adamo said Landrith was shot in the head, neck and throat multiple times, and her death has been ruled a homicide.
Investigators were back at the scene on Wednesday at the Mile Run Interchange (199). State police would not say whether they believe Landrith was killed at the exit ramp or somewhere else.
MILTON A woman whose body was found Sunday along an Interstate 80 off ramp in western Union County was possibly of Asian or Native American descent, state p
Body of an adult woman found along I-80 exit ramp in western Union County
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
The woman did not have any identification and was fully clothed, coroner Dominick Adamo said.
There were no visible signs of trauma but an autopsy is scheduled for Monday to determine the cause of death, he said.
A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) worker on duty because of the snow found the body, he said.
A state police news release states the incident occurred overnight but it does not give the time the body was found.
The death appears to have been recent, county District Attorney D. Peter Johnson said.