Identified! PA - Human Remains, Carlisle St, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, 27-Feb-2024 - Nicole Cuevas

[CCJD]

Not yet in NamUs.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — State troopers and Wilkes-Barre police have been investigating at a home in Wilkes-Barre since Tuesday night.

Officers with the Wilkes-Barre Police Department and Pennsylvania State Police responded to the home along Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Forensic anthropologists from Mercyhurst University in Erie arrived at the scene Wednesday morning.

Forensics experts called to Wilkes-Barre home

Officers responded to a home along Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre Tuesday night.

www.wnep.com

 

[CCJD]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — After a weeks-long investigation into remains found on Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre, officials have determined that the remains are human.

Mercyhurst University, which is examining the remains removed from the home on Carlisle Street home in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday, February 28, confirmed that the remains are human, however, the identity has not yet been confirmed.

Remains found in Wilkes-Barre determined to be human

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — After a weeks-long investigation into remains found on Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre, officials have determined that the remains are human. According to…

www.pahomepage.com

 

[CCJD]

Two sisters continue to search for their missing mother, Debra Fox, the former owner of a home in Wilkes-Barre where human remains were recently discovered.

Human remains found at former home of missing woman

Two sisters continue to search for their missing mother, Debra Fox, the former owner of a home in Wilkes-Barre where human remains were recently discovered.

www.wnep.com

 

[CCJD]

WILKES-BARRE — A man who formerly resided at 142 Carlisle St., Wilkes-Barre, where a decomposed body was found in the basement last month, has an active protection-from abuse order against him from the previous home owner reportedly missing.

Debra Jane Fox, 69, owned the residence until the property was sold at a Luzerne County upset sale in September 2023.

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Wilkes-Barre police detectives are searching for Fox following the discovery of a decomposed body in the basement of 142 Carlisle St., on Feb. 27. Fox is not reported as missing on NamUs, an online database.
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Missing owner of Wilkes-Barre home where body found has active PFA against man - Times Leader

WILKES-BARRE — A man who formerly resided at 142 Carlisle St., Wilkes-Barre, where a decomposed body was found in the basement last month, has an active protection-from abuse order against him from the previous home owner reportedly missing.

www.timesleader.com

 

[lightofmine99]

Well this doesn't sound good at all.

 

[CCJD]

Investigators have determined that the body found in the wooded area behind the Host Inn on Kidder Street in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday, March 26, is related to the investigation where a body was found buried in the basement of the home at 142 Carlisle Street, Wilkes-Barre back in February.

Officials determine the connection of two bodies found in Wilkes-Barre

Officials in Luzerne County have released information regarding a body found in the basement of a home and another in a wooded area in Wilkes-Barre.

www.wnep.com

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

I won't lie, this one has me puzzled. As I understand it:

The 69-year-old woman who previously owned the house is missing. She had a protection-from-abuse order taken out in August 2023 against a 43-year-old man who also lived at the property, citing elder abuse.

The man, and a 39-year-old woman, lived at the address with two young children. In July 2023, a blood-covered man was found in the street nearby, and claimed he had been kept prisoner in the basement of the house after he was accused of molesting one of the children. The police subsequently conducted a welfare check on the children at the address, and arrested the 43-year-old man and 39-year-old woman for obstructing the search. It's unclear if the 69-year-old homeowner was present at that time.

The house was sold in an "Upset Sale" (meaning the property had been repossessed) in September 2023. A body was found buried in the basement in February 2024, and another body related to the case has now been found about 3 miles away.

A lot more details are needed before this one makes sense.

 

[lightofmine99]

Wow. That is a lot to unpack. So was it the 69 y/o homeowner or the 43 y/o obstructer whose body was found in the basement? Or the other woman? Are the remains of a child? Or was it Professor Plum in the kitchen with a candlestick?

 

[CCJD]

“That’s kind of crazy. I mean it’s like you have a serial killer living next door and you didn’t even know, you know? That it would happen to you but it did,” Mike, a Carlisle Street resident responded.

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In the early days of the investigation here at the Carlisle Street home, investigators were asking for information about the whereabouts of the previous homeowner, Debra Fox.
Her name has not been mentioned recently and it is unknown if Fox was ever located.

Concerns raised over linked bodies in Wilkes-Barre

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — There are lots of questions, concerns, and speculation after Wilkes-Barre Police confirmed this week that a body found near the North Cross Valley Express…

www.pahomepage.com

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

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I was going to say, I wonder if DF's remains were found in the woodland. If she was living in a hotel and her daughters were last in contact with her in February, her death (if it is her) may be totally coincidental and not directly related to the house--or perhaps she was murdered or took her own life following the discovery of the body in the house.

The fact that a man previously claimed to have been tortured and held prisoner in the basement is notable. Who knows what could have been going on in that house. It could be another house of horrors.

 

[carbuff]

Every time I think the world can't get weirder, somebody proves me wrong.

 

[DoctorRose]

So who is the guy who said he was being held in the basement? Is he around to give info?

 

[Reddington]

So who is the guy who said he was being held in the basement? Is he around to give info?

So far, that name is not being released. It seems odd there were no false imprisonment charges made against the couple.

 

[Eli9]

I'm going to need cliff notes. This is so confusing!
?Was Debra Fox living with the man and woman at some point?

 

[DoctorRose]

So far, that name is not being released. It seems odd there were no false imprisonment charges made against the couple.

Right. Im assuming he’s been questioned again then even if his name isn’t being publicly released. Not as a suspect but as like what in the world was going on in that house. It sounds like everyone else is missing, in jail, deceased apparently, or a child.

 

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[JackieBrown]

This is an older article than the ones above, but I don’t see that we’ve discussed the details mentioned here yet.

“Jason Paul Race, 43, and Faith Beamer, 39, remained jailed Thursday two days after prosecutors dismissed two counts of obstruction of justice and a single count of obstructing a child abuse investigation.”

Police obstruction charges withdrawn against former tenants of Wilkes-Barre house where human remains were found - Times Leader

WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County prosecutors this week dismissed police obstruction charges against two former tenants of a Carlisle Street house where decomposed human remains were found last month.

www.timesleader.com

 

[CCJD]

Police are not releasing details about the death investigations. But, on Tuesday the I-Team spoke with a woman who contacted police after she claimed she received information that could be critical to this investigation.

“Drugs, criminal stuff, activity, people running in and out of the house. How many people were living there, like a lot of crazy stuff that never should have happened,” said the woman who reached out to police.

Police still not releasing information on Wilkes-Barre remains

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Now, an I-Team exclusive centering on the ongoing police investigation into human remains found in Wilkes-Barre. Remains were first found inside a home on…

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[CCJD]

The Luzerne County District Attorney announced the body buried in the basement of a home on Carlise Street has been identified as Nicole Cuevas.

The DA stated Cuevas was living at Carlise Street with several roommates in April 2023 when she was trying to get back to Michigan. Investigators reported five people kidnapped Cuevas, brutally handcuffed her and beat her to death.

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On March 26, detectives were seen investigating a body discovery around a wooded area along Exit 1 of the North Cross Valley Expressway behind the Host Inn.

Tuesday Sanguedolce confirmed the body discovered was identified as Debra Fox who was buried behind the Host Inn in Wilkes-Barre. Investigators noted Fox owned the Carlise Street home.

The death investigation of both Cuevas and Fox have been connected through the District Attorney’s Office investigation however detectives have yet to release the tie between the two.

DA: Five arrested in Wilkes-Barre human remains investigation

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Five people have been arrested in the investigation of human remains found on Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre where the victim was kidnapped and tortured,…

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