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

[lightofmine99]

Murder arrests after remains found in Wilkes-Barre home

The D.A. says a woman was tortured, murdered, and buried in the basement of a home on Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre.

www.wnep.com

Wilkes-Barre? More like Wilkes-BIZARRE.

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

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,…

www.pahomepage.com

Poor Nicole. RIP. Her story sounds somewhat similar to the story told by the man who was found bloodied in the street after he escaped from the basement of the house. If investigators know she was kidnapped and beaten by five people, they presumably have a good idea who at least some of those five people are. (Edit: Apparently all five have been arrested.)

Debra Fox was buried, so she was also probably murdered. RIP Debra. If she was last in contact with relatives in February, it's possible she was killed after the body of Nicole was found in the house.

Something really bad was obviously going on in that house. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there turn out to be more than just the two victims.

 

[tlcya]

so Debra vacated her residence in summer of 2023, moved into a hotel and was last seen there by her daughters in November 2023. I wonder if the Host Inn was the hotel Debra moved into? If so she was found very near to where she was last seen.

Human remains found at former home of missing woman
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Meanwhile articles say that a couple of the arrested folks already lived in the house owned by Debra Fox, then in March of 2023 several more moved in there. Cuevas-Ingram came to visit and was tortured and murdered there in April of 2023 and her remains buried in the basement.

This would seem to suggest that Fox was still residing in that home during the spring of 2023 when Nicole came for her visit that ended in her murder. I wonder if Debra took these people into her home and then lived (maybe even died) to regret it. Why else would a woman who owned a home vacate it and leave others to remain there and move herself into a hotel? I think Ms. Fox got hooked up with some crack addicts who took over her house and she moved out to get away from them. JMO

"She has a big heart; she'll take anybody in. She'd rather see people safe than be homeless and all that. Somebody has to know where she is," said Danielle.
Human remains found at former home of missing woman

MOO if the five arrested had anything to do with Debra's murder it was because she knew too much to let her live.

 

[lightofmine99]

"She has a big heart; she'll take anybody in. She'd rather see people safe than be homeless and all that. Somebody has to know where she is," said Danielle.

So it looks like this is yet another case of someone too good for this world, perhaps too naïve, getting destroyed by the absolute dregs of society she tried to help.

 

[CCJD]

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Intense and very active, that’s how police are describing their investigation into what they are calling a house of horrors.
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In late March, the body of the longtime owner of the house, 69-year-old Debra Fox, was found in a wooded area near the North Cross Valley Expressway. Her death has not been called a homicide.

Mehalshick asked District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce if homicide charges were forthcoming in the death of Fox.
“So it’s too early to comment on further arrests. Obviously, five people were arrested in the death of Nicole Cueva. If we were able to prove in fact Debra Fox’s death is a homicide, then we would expect more homicide charges to follow from that fact,” Sanguedolce said

DA speaks on Carlisle Street investigation

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Intense and very active, that’s how police are describing their investigation into what they are calling a house of horrors. Human remains were foun…

www.pahomepage.com

 

[lydiafaithfull]

So it looks like this is yet another case of someone too good for this world, perhaps too naïve, getting destroyed by the absolute dregs of society she tried to help.

I’d like to believe that given her protective order, she wasn’t a kind fool so much as an easy target.

During the pandemic, a woman in my city was alleged to die naturally at home. Squatters came upon her and were delighted her bills had been set to autopay. They dismembered the elderly woman and buried her in the backyard.

 

[CCJD]

Coroner Matthews told 28/22 News that Fox’s death is undetermined and she will not be releasing any other information regarding the case.

Luzerne County coroner: Debra Fox death undetermined

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Luzerne County coroner reports Debra Fox’s death is undetermined after her body was found near the North Cross Valley Expressway. Luzerne County…

www.pahomepage.com

 

[cvaldez1975]

so Debra vacated her residence in summer of 2023, moved into a hotel and was last seen there by her daughters in November 2023. I wonder if the Host Inn was the hotel Debra moved into? If so she was found very near to where she was last seen.

Human remains found at former home of missing woman
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Meanwhile articles say that a couple of the arrested folks already lived in the house owned by Debra Fox, then in March of 2023 several more moved in there. Cuevas-Ingram came to visit and was tortured and murdered there in April of 2023 and her remains buried in the basement.

This would seem to suggest that Fox was still residing in that home during the spring of 2023 when Nicole came for her visit that ended in her murder. I wonder if Debra took these people into her home and then lived (maybe even died) to regret it. Why else would a woman who owned a home vacate it and leave others to remain there and move herself into a hotel? I think Ms. Fox got hooked up with some crack addicts who took over her house and she moved out to get away from them. JMO

"She has a big heart; she'll take anybody in. She'd rather see people safe than be homeless and all that. Somebody has to know where she is," said Danielle.
Human remains found at former home of missing woman

MOO if the five arrested had anything to do with Debra's murder it was because she knew too much to let her live.

I think this is exactly what happened. I think the couple w the kids manipulated her then took over the house.

 

[user976]

This article pretty much sums up the entire scenario.

Report details torture Saginaw woman suffered before body found in Pennsylvania basement

The woman's head was shaved at one point as one of her alleged killers didn't want her to be prettier than her.

www.mlive.com

WILKES-BARRE, PA — Nicole M. Cuevas died hard.

Accompanied by what she thought were friends, the 38-year-old woman left her hometown of Saginaw for Pennsylvania in the spring of 2023. After arriving at a row house in the city of Wilkes-Barre, it took only days for Cuevas’ supposed friends to turn on her, according to prosecutors.

Desperate to return to Michigan, she reached out to loved ones seeking money for a way back.

Then contact with her stopped.

By then, Cuevas was no longer in control of her phone, police allege. Instead, she was in the control of group of people, including a mother-daughter duo, within a den of crack cocaine.

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The Saginaw Police Department, Saginaw County Sheriff’s Office, Michigan State Police, and Buena Vista Township Police Department have said no missing-person report for Cuevas had been filed with them.

The five suspects are scheduled for preliminary examinations on April 19.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

NICOLE CUEVAS

deserves her name big and bold

bumping. this is a story that others might be interested in (and outraged by).

How do we continue to treat each other so badly... why...

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

This is still so bizarre.

What happened to Nicole Cuevas is exactly what happened to the man who was found wandering the streets covered in blood. Accused of child abuse and then tortured in the basement. The man was able to escape but Nicole sadly wasn't.

And yet this seems to have had nothing to do with the woman who owned the house, Debra Fox, nor the man she took out a restraining order against, who was later arrested for obstructing the police.

It seems like a group of drug addicts had taken control of the house, but beyond that it's still difficult to make sense of the situation.

 

[Sillybilly]

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