Justo Smoker (L) and Linda Stoltzfoos. | Facebook/Lancaster County District Attorney s Office
Linda Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish girl from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who was recently found dead after she went missing while walking home from church last summer, was strangled and stabbed in the neck, a coroner ruled on Friday.
Lancaster County coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, said Stoltzfoos was positively identified through dental records and confirmed that her cause of death was asphyxia from strangulation, along with suffocation. A stab wound was a contributing factor in her death, The Associated Press reported.
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announced that the remains of Stoltzfoos, who disappeared on June 21, 2020, after being kidnapped on Beechdale Road in Bird-in-Hand, East Lampeter Township, was found last Wednesday.
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Amish girl, 18, strangled and stabbed to death before body was wrapped in tarp and dumped in shallow grave
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AN 18-year-old Amish girl was strangled and stabbed to death before being wrapped in tarp and dumped in a shallow grave.
The cause of Linda Stoltzfoos’ death was asphyxia from strangulation, along with suffocation, according to Lancaster County coroner Dr Stephen Diamantoni after an autopsy was carried out.
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Justo Smoker, 35, has been charged with the abduction and murder of the 18-year-old girlCredit: Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office
He said a stab wound to her neck was a contributing factor in her death.
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