The fiend accused of snatching beauty queen Kada Scott has now been charged with her murder — as chilling new texts appear to show him discussing his plans to “kidnap” her just hours before she vanished.
Keon King, 21, was already charged with kidnapping Scott, 23, in Philadelphia on Oct. 4 — months after he was freed on cash bail on similar charges from January for taking a woman who was also choked.
He has now been charged with murder and a slew of other crimes — including abuse of a corpse — after the beauty queen’s body was discovered in a shallow grave behind an abandoned middle school last week, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
Investigators are also looking at the possibility that someone helped him after surveillance caught two people moving a body-size bag from a car to an area near where the body was found.
An affidavit suggested that Scott knew her now-accused killer and texted with him until hours before she was reported missing, according to court documents obtained by WPVI.
“Kidnap me again,” she even texted to a number linked to King around 12 hours before she vanished, according to the report, which stressed that police had no reports of previous incidents between the two.
“Better be up too,” King allegedly texted back, along with plans to meet up later that night.
King allegedly drove to meet Scott in a Hyundai Accent that he stole from a food delivery worker who had left it running shortly before midnight the previous night, according to court documents.
Scott’s final text exchange with King was “cm [call me] when u here.”
Around 10:15 p.m., the two were together near a senior home where Scott worked, according to cellphone data reviewed by authorities.
One of Scott’s co-workers told cops she last saw her there around the same time, and heard her saying, “I can’t believe you’re calling me about this [expletive.]”
Court documents say that’s when Scott walked toward a dark SUV that was parked outside and left immediately after. Scott’s phone then went offline.
King’s phone, meanwhile, was tracked taking multiple trips between a house on Belmar Terrace and the area around the vacant Ada Lewis Middle School, where Scott’s body was found days later.
Police visited the house and found contractor bags, a hammer, ammunition and other suspicious items, but King was not there, according to court documents.
Two women who were at the property were detained and interviewed but later released.
On Oct. 5, just before midnight, King’s registered Toyota Camry was caught on surveillance camera parking at the rec center next door to the school. Two people exited the car and four hours later, the two appeared to take a large object — which looked like a body — out of the passenger side.
The body of Scott, who represented Philadelphia Township in this year’s Miss Pennsylvania USA Beauty Pageant, was discovered buried behind the shuttered school on Saturday.
Officials ruled her death a homicide, but have not revealed exactly how she was killed.
Authorities are still investigating the relationship between Scott and King and how they initially met, WPVI reported.
King had faced kidnapping charges from a January incident in which he allegedly stalked a woman before abducting her from her home and assaulting her in his car. However, he was allowed out on bail and the charges were eventually dismissed in May when the accuser stopped showing up for court.
Prosecutors have since reopened that case after Scott’s murder.
