DA: Wilkes-Barre death investigations connected
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Nearly a month after police found a body inside a Wilkes-Barre home, investigators uncovered another body in a wooded area along the North Cross Valley Expressway.
The Luzerne County District Attorney says the two death investigations are connected.
This story keeps taking twists and turns as prosecutors laid out the charges against five people in the death of a Michigan woman.
Gruesome details highlighted in Carlisle Street homicide investigation
They also said the body they found near the Cross Valley is the owner of the home where the Michigan woman was found.
On March 26, detectives swarmed the woods along the North Cross Valley Expressway in Wilkes-Barre. The DA confirms they found the body of 69-year-old Debra Fox, who was buried somewhere behind the Host Inn All Suites Hotel.
Fox is the previous owner of 142 Carlisle Street where police found the body of 38-year-old Nicole Cuevas in March.
The death investigation of both Cuevas and Fox have been connected, however, detectives have not specifically said how.
Fox had a protection from abuse order against one of the suspects in the Cuevas homicide, 43-year-old Jason Race.
In that order, Fox claimed elderly abuse, noting she was assaulted, starved, pistol-whipped, and shot with pellet guns.
We checked with the DA’s office and right now no one is charged with Fox’s death, we’ll let you know if that changes.
Meanwhile, this entire complex case is laid out in our previous coverage.
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