NEPA True Crime

Cases from Northeastern Pennsylvania

Category: Current Investigations

Cases unfolding in real time: Disappearances, suspicious deaths and homicides still under investigation across Northeast Pennsylvania. From Wilkes-Barre to the Pocono Mountains, each post covers a developing story with the facts currently available. As families wait for answers and law enforcement works leads, we track the details as they emerge.

If you have information that could help solve one of these cases, speak up. Sometimes the smallest detail can make the biggest difference.

  • Justice for Jessica Lockwood – homicide suspect caught after 10 days – What was the motive?

    Justice for Jessica Lockwood – homicide suspect caught after 10 days – What was the motive?

    Homicide victim Jessica Lockwood, age 39

    Updates

    June 02, 2025: As of today, Terence Leroy Ray has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Friday, June 6, 2025, at the Luzerne County Courthouse. At a preliminary hearing, the judge decides if there’s enough evidence for a case to go to trial. It is not about determining guilt or innocence. But given all the evidence in this case, I think the odds are high that Ray will waive his preliminary hearing. [I’m not a legal expert, but waiving this hearing is common when there is an abundance of evidence against a defendent.] View the Terence Leroy Ray docket here.

    May 19, 2025: Terence Leroy Ray is returning to Luzerne County today, to face charges of criminal homicide, abuse of corpse and tampering with evidence. He’ll be jailed without bail at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility. 1 2 I wonder if we’ll get any clarity on how this apparently minor drug deal went so horrifically wrong, leaving a 39-year-old mother dead, and a 55-year-old grandfather facing the rest of his life in prison.

    💚 GoFundMe for Jessica Lockwood’s children – Donate here

    May 11, 2025: A benefit is set for July 11, 2025, at the Harwood Fire Company, where Jessica was a firefighter and trustee. The day will feature live music along with food trucks and local vendors. Attendees can also try their luck at Tricky Trays, generously donated by supporters, businesses, and members of the community. Benefit organizers are currently seeking more local businesses to donate to the fundraiser.

    Jess went beyond for anything that was asked of her. She was dedicated to a life of selflessness, compassion, & charity. She will be greatly missed & fondly remembered by all the lives she touched. – Harwood Fire Company

    Also, Lockwood’s 11-year-old daughter, Isabella, recently spoke with Andy Mehalshik of 28/22 News (video below). 3

    May 8, 2025: Terence Leroy Ray, a suspect in the homicide of Jessica (Paul) Lockwood, was apprehended at 5:45 a.m. the morning of May 8th, in Westchester County, New York, without incident. He was tracked to the Hilltop Inn & Suites on Tuckahoe Road in Yonkers. The arrest was made by the U.S. Marshals Service and the Pennsylvania State Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit.

    Ray is currently held in the Westchester County Jail, where he’s awaiting extradition back to Luzerne County. 4

    Luzerne County D.A. Sam Sanguedolce said investigators think they know the motive behind Ray’s actions.

    “We have a theory we are not prepared to make public yet,” Sanguedolce said. 5

    Case Status

    Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Terence Leroy Ray (current as ofJune 02, 2025)

    Preliminary Hearing Scheduled for June 6, 2025 at Luzerne County Courthouse
    Bail Status Denied – Defendant remains in custody
    Defendant Name Terence Leroy Ray
    Date of Birth 1969
    Residence Hazleton, PA 18201
    Criminal Complaint Issued April 29, 2025
    Offense Date April 27, 2025
    Arrest Date May 8, 2025
    Current Stage Awaiting Extradition
    Incarceration Location Westchester County Jail, New York
    Charges
    • Criminal Homicide (18 § 2501 §§ A) – Felony H1
    • Abuse of Corpse (18 § 5510) – Misdemeanor 2
    • Tampering with Physical Evidence (18 § 4910 §§ 1) – Misdemeanor 2
    Judge Assigned Magisterial District Judge James M. Dixon
    Arresting Officer Officer Brett A. Naprava (Hazleton City Police)
    Prosecutor Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office
    Public Defender No record on file as of June 02, 2025
    Source: Magisterial District Court Docket No. MJ-11304-CR-0000153-2025, Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania, accessed June 02, 2025.

    💚 GoFundMe for Jessica Lockwood’s children – Donate here

    What happened to Jessica Lockwood?

    On the morning of April 27, 2025, at about 7:00 a.m., the Hazleton City Fire Department responded to a report of a mannequin on fire on Club 40 Road near East Broad Street in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. They arrived at the scene to discover a human body wrapped in a tarp and set on fire. The unclothed victim was identified as 39-year-old Jessica Ann Lockwood, a dedicated volunteer firefighter, ambulance technician, and married mother of two from Frackville.

    Jessica Lockwood had been reported missing the previous day after failing to pick up her son. With the help of her family, authorities tracked her cell phone and discovered it abandoned along Route 424.

    Investigators reviewed the phone and found a series of text messages between Lockwood and a contact saved as “Og,” later identified as Terence Leroy Ray, age 55. Lockwood’s final message, sent at 2:33 p.m. on April 26 to “Og”, read, “Here. I have to get my son.”

    Police interviewed Lockwood’s incarcerated husband, James Lockwood, who told them he knew “Og” to be a pill dealer.

    James is serving a one-year prison sentence for firing a gun at a group of teenagers trespassing near the Harwood Volunteer Fire Company in Hazle Township, where both he and his wife had been active members. He started his prison sentence on April 10, just a few weeks before the murder.

    During the interview, James Lockwood told investigators his wife had been buying painkillers from “Og.” Before he was locked up, James always accompanied her to the drug buys, which took place in an alley behind Ray’s home. He said Lockwood got addicted to pain meds after dealing with chronic pain due to extensive neck surgeries.

    Ray has a prescription for Percocet, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

    Terrence Leroy Ray, age 55. The armed and dangerous suspect was on the run for 10 days.

    James Lockwood called Ray from the correctional facility and asked him if he knew where Lockwood was. Ray told him Jessica never showed up at his place, and he didn’t know where she was.

    Evidence found in Hazleton burning body case

    The day the body was discovered, authorities searched Ray’s side of the double-block residence at 137 Muir Avenue in Hazleton. The search revealed:

    • a pool of dried blood in the basement
    • blonde hair matching Lockwood’s
    • a single gold-plated diamond earring matching one Lockwood was wearing
    • blood-soaked trash bags and paper towels
    • blood on a red handcart and a piece of rope
    • a torn pillowcase consistent with fabric used to wrap Lockwood’s legs
    • two live 9mm rounds
    • an empty gun case
    • ownership papers for a 9mm Ruger handgun

    Surveillance footage captured Ray moving Lockwood’s vehicle from his residence to a location a block away. Additionally, a license plate reader recorded Ray’s dark blue Ford Explorer entering and exiting Club 40 Road around the time of the body’s discovery.

    An autopsy conducted by forensic pathologist Dr. Charles Siebert determined Lockwood died from a gunshot to the upper right chest and blunt force trauma leading to broken ribs, a shattered clavicle, and head trauma.

    The manner of death was ruled a homicide by Luzerne County Acting Coroner Kaitlin Keating.

    Map showing Ray’s House and Club 40 Road in Hazleton, PA—key locations in the Jessica Lockwood homicide case.
    Map showing Ray’s house and Club 40 Road in Hazleton, PA — key locations in the Jessica Lockwood homicide case.

    Warrant issued for Terrence Leroy Ray – Jessica Lockwood homicide

    On April 29, 2025, a criminal complaint was filed under seal, charging Terrence Ray with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence. The complaint was unsealed on May 5, 2025, during a press conference by Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce.

    Sanguedolce stated that investigators think they’ve uncovered the motive behind Ray’s actions.

    “We have a theory we are not prepared to make public yet,” Sanguedolce said.

    Authorities believe Ray fled Luzerne County immediately after the Jessica Lockwood homicide and is currently at large. He left his dark blue Ford Explorer at his home on Muir Ave. He possibly has connections in the Bronx.

    The Hazleton Standard Speaker reports that Ray’s daughter alleged in a 2022 PFA filing that he assaulted her and made threats involving a firearm inside the same residence where Lockwood was killed.

    “Dad climbed through my apartment window, punched me, attacked my daughter, and damaged property in home. Was arrested and released today,” she wrote in the PFA filing.

    Ray is described as weighing about 240 pounds and is 6’1″ tall. He is considered armed and dangerous. If you see him, do not approach. Call 911.

    How you can help

    💚 A GoFundMe campaign established to support Jessica Lockwood’s children has raised over $21,000 as of May 7, 2025 – Donate here

    🕯️ A Celebration of Life is scheduled for May 13, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Harman Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc. in Drums, Pennsylvania.

    🎟️ Benefit for Jessica Lockwood’s family July 11, 2025: To be held at Harwood Fire Company, where Jessica served as a firefighter and trustee. Live music, food trucks, local vendors, and raffle trays donated by the community. Organizers are still seeking local business donations.

    📞 Submit a Tip

    If you have any information regarding this case, please contact the Hazleton City Police Department.

    📰 Local News Coverage

  • Debra Fox’s Mysterious Death: Was it Murder?

    Debra Fox’s Mysterious Death: Was it Murder?

    Photo of Debra Fox, a 69-year-old woman from Wilkes-Barre, whose remains were discovered in 2024.

    The five individuals arrested for the horrific kidnapping, torture and murder of Michigan mother Nicole Cuevas waived their right to a preliminary hearing this week.

    That’s no surprise. The purpose of a preliminary hearing is to determine if there’s enough evidence to bring a defendant to trial. The eyewitness and forensic evidence against them has got to be overwhelming.

    Is Debra Fox Confirmed Murdered?

    The last report I’ve seen into the manner and cause of death of Debra Fox, the woman who owned the home at 142 Carlisle Street where where Nicole Cuevas was tortured and murdered, is that her cause and manner of death are both “undetermined.”

    Her body was found on March 26, 2024, at the bottom of a steep embankment behind a budget hotel. She’d been staying there with at least one of the murder suspects after she lost her home to unpaid property taxes. (That home had been in her family since the 1940s, per Luzerne County Recorder of Deeds.)

    But a recent news report from PAHomepage states that Debra Fox was murdered.

    It says, “The longtime owner of the home, 69-year-old Debra Fox, was also murdered.” and “If you have any information about the murder of Debra Fox, contact Wilkes-Barre Police.”

    Did that news outlet jump to that conclusion, or do they have access to some new (or inside) information? While it’s not exactly a giant leap to assume Debra Fox didn’t trip and fall down that embankment but was a victim of foul play, news outlets typically stick to the documented facts.

    I can’t find any news reports that state Debra Fox’s death certificate has been amended to show the manner of death as homicide. And I haven’t had a chance to request a copy of the coroner’s report to see for myself if there is a change.

    The Citizens Voice reported on 1/31/2025 that Debra Fox’s cause and manner of death are undetermined.

    The Times Leader didn’t specify homicide, either.

    If you know anything about the death of Debra Fox, contact the Wilkes-Barre Police Department. You can call anonymously by phone at 570.208.4200, Extension 4, by sending the  Wilkes-Barre Police Department Facebook Page a private message, or using the form at the WBPD website.

  • Hometown Service Held for Nicole Cuevas; New Court Date for Suspects

    Hometown Service Held for Nicole Cuevas; New Court Date for Suspects

    The family of homicide victim Nicole Cuevas held a service today at St. Mary’s Cathedral Church in Saginaw, Michigan, according to a Facebook post by Nicole’s brother Paris Scroggins. Nicole’s obituary reads, “Nicole loved to read. Nicole truly loved being with her children and her family and friends. She loved visiting, chatting, and helping family and friends whenever needed.”

    Court Date Moved for Suspects

    All five suspects in the brutal kidnapping, torture, and murder of Nicole Cuevas are locked up in county jails without bail (Jason Race, Desiree Linnete, Faith Beamer, and Sarai Doyle are in the Luzerne County Jail; William Wolfe is in Lackawanna County Jail, per court documents).

    The next action on their court dockets is the preliminary hearing. It was originally set for all five defendants on Friday, May 31, 2024, at 9:00 a.m., in the Luzerne County Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre.

    It has been continued, aka rescheduled, to August 2, 2024, Friday, at 9 a.m.

    Sources:

    • https://prdpcv.pwpca.pa.gov/available-services/Pages/Preliminary-Hearing.aspx
    • https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/#

  • Carlisle Street Debra Fox’s autopsy inconclusive; intense investigation ongoing

    Carlisle Street Debra Fox’s autopsy inconclusive; intense investigation ongoing

    Debra Jane Fox portrait photo
    Debra Jane Fox

    The autopsy was inconclusive for Debra “Debbie” Jane Fox, 69, whose remains were found behind the All Host Inn and Suites in Wilkes-Barre on March 26, 2024. The coroner could not determine what caused her death or whether her death was accidental, homicidal, suicidal, etc. This ruling can be changed if more evidence comes to light.

    Debra was reportedly last seen alive in mid-January 2024, per the district attorney. Her daughter Melissa Fox said she last saw her mother in November 2023, when Debra was staying at a local hotel.

    Donate to GoFundMe to help with Debra Fox funeral costs

    Local law enforcement didn’t publicly announce Debra’s cause of death; it was released in response to a right-to-know request from the Times Leader. Per the TL, investigators seem to be actively pursuing leads, with several search warrants filed. County President Judge Michael T. Vough has sealed those warrants so their contents aren’t available to the public at this time.

    Debra was the owner of 142 Carlisle Street and apparently was living at that home when Nicole Cuevas was held there against her will, tortured, murdered, and buried in the basement in April 2023. The D.A. says there is no evidence Debra was involved.

    Deep family roots at Carlisle Street

    The house at 142 Carlisle Street was owned by Debra’s parents since 1948. Debra’s aunt, her father’s sister, lived and raised a family in another one of these rowhouses. Debra’s father, Luke T. Race, died in 1974 at age 55. He was a veteran of World War II and had worked for the Glen Alden Coal Company.

    Debra’s mother, who was born in Virginia, passed away in 2002. After her mother’s passing, Debra and her husband Daniel Fox inherited the home, according to a deed filed in 2002 with the Luzerne County Recorder of Deeds. Husband Daniel Fox died in 2021. Only two years later, Debra lost the family home because of unpaid property taxes.

    Information needed

    Do you know anything about the death of Debra Jane Fox? Anyone with related information can contact Wilkes-Barre City Detective Division c/o Lt. Mathew Stash at 570-208-0911 or Detective James Conmy at 570-208-6775.

    You can also submit an anonymous tip through Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers. If your tip leads to an arrest, you could qualify for a $5,000 reward.

    Sources

    “Luke T Race, 55, of City, Taken by Death,” The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Monday, September 09, 1974, accessed on newspapers.com

    Luzerne County Recorder of Deeds, book 3002, page 214485, Estate of Elsie V. Race to Debra Fox and Daniel Fox

    “Daniel Fox,” Obituary, Citizens’ Voice, October 22, 2021, viewed on newspapers.com.

  • GoFundMe created for Debra Jane Fox funeral costs

    GoFundMe created for Debra Jane Fox funeral costs

    Danielle Fox, daughter of Debra Jane Fox, has set up a GoFundMe to help with funeral expenses for her mother.

    Debra Jane Fox, 69, was the former homeowner of 142 Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre, where Michigan woman Nicole Cuevas, 38, was held against her will, tortured daily for three weeks, brutally murdered, and buried in the basement. Officials say there is no evidence Fox was involved in the crimes against Cuevas.

    Mrs. Fox, a widow and mother of two daughters, was reportedly last seen by her daughter Melissa Fox in November 2023. Unfortunately, Debra Fox was found deceased on March 26, 2024, at the bottom of a wooded embankment behind the Host Inn All Suites hotel in Wilkes-Barre.

    As of now, Debra Fox’s death has not been ruled a homicide, and no charges have been filed in relation to her case. No cause of death has been publicly released yet, either.

    In an interview with reporter Andy Mehalshik about the Debra Fox case, District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce said, “It is not yet being called a homicide. Her body was in such a state of decomposition we are still investigating the cause and manner of death. Obviously, it’s very suspicious to us and we believe it’s linked to Carlisle Street home after we found Nicole Cuevas’s body buried in the basement.”

    Unofficial sources say that after Debra Fox’s husband, Daniel Fox, 66, died in late 2021, Debra started taking in lodgers to help with expenses. (If that’s true, it seems they weren’t much help since she lost her home, which was in her family since 1948, due to unpaid property taxes in Sept. 2023.)

    One of those lodgers, Jason Paul Race, a homicide suspect in the Nicole Cuevas case, was Fox’s nephew, according to a 2010 obituary for Fox’s brother. In a recent WVIA news report, Melissa Fox said that Jason Race was a cousin through adoption.

    Debra Fox obtained a protection-from-abuse order against her nephew Jason Race in August 2023, four months after the murder of Cuevas. Per the Citizens Voice, Fox alleged Race had threatened to kill her, shot her with a BB gun, held a knife to her throat, and more.

    Fox wrote on her application for protection, “I was elderly abused, starved, hit with his fist, kicked, raped, got shot with BB guns — hit with the BB gun. Threatened for (my) life.” She also alleged she was locked in her room.

    While Debra Fox was still missing, her daughter Danielle Fox described her mother to WNEP news, “She had a big heart. She’ll take anybody in. She’d rather see people safe than being homeless and all that.”

    I hope we get some answers about what happened to Debra Fox soon.

    View the GoFundMe for Debra Fox here.

    Sources:
    • New Details in Carlisle Street ‘House of Horrors’ Investigation, Pahomepage.com (April 12, 2024)
    • [PAYWALL] Murder Suspect Was Target of PFA by Second Dead Woman, The Citizens Voice (April 10, 2024)
    • “Luke Thomas Race, Jr.” obituary, The Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, (July 31, 2010), page T32, col 1, 2, viewed on newspapers.com
    • Family, friends hold vigil for Wilkes-Barre torture house victim, WVIA.org (April 20, 2024)
    • Human remains found at former home of missing woman, WNEP.com (March 13, 2024)

  • All 5 Nicole Cuevas Homicide Suspects Scheduled for May 31 hearing

    All 5 Nicole Cuevas Homicide Suspects Scheduled for May 31 hearing

    All five individuals arrested for the brutal kidnapping, torture, and murder of Nicole Cuevas are currently locked up in county jails (Jason Race, Desiree Linnete, Faith Beamer, and Sarai Doyle are in the Luzerne County Jail; William Wolfe is in Lackawanna County Jail, per court documents).

    The next action on their court dockets is the preliminary hearing, set to take place for all five defendants on Friday, May 31, 2024, at 9:00 a.m., in the Luzerne County Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre.

    During a preliminary hearing, a magisterial district judge listens to the evidence from both the prosecution and the defense. The prosecution needs to prove there is good reason to believe a crime was committed and that the accused is likely the person who did it.

    The judge determines if there’s enough evidence to believe the accused committed the crime. If the judge thinks there is, the case will move on to the Common Pleas Court. If not, the charges will be dropped.

    The accused can choose to waive the preliminary hearing, and the case will go straight to the Common Pleas Court.

    Personally, I think since there is so much evidence and most of the defendants have confessed to their roles in the horrific crimes against Nicole Cuevas, I’d guess this bunch would waive the hearing rather than sit through a play-by-play of the horror they so cruelly inflicted on another human being. It seems like only Linnette is trying to say she wasn’t present when the torture and murder took place, per the police affidavit.

    I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

    Sources:

    • https://prdpcv.pwpca.pa.gov/available-services/Pages/Preliminary-Hearing.aspx
    • https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/#

  • Photo of murder suspect Desiree Linnette with now-deceased woman Debra Fox, posted 6 months after Nicole Cuevas homicide

    Photo of murder suspect Desiree Linnette with now-deceased woman Debra Fox, posted 6 months after Nicole Cuevas homicide

    Debra Fox and Desiree Linnette, posted on October 28, 2023
    Former 142 Carlisle St homeowner Debra Fox, whose suspicious death is still under investigation, pictured next to murder suspect Desiree Linnette. Photo posted to FB in Oct. 2023

    This photo shows Debra Jane Fox, 69, who went missing and was later found deceased behind a Wilkes-Barre hotel. She is seated next to murder suspect Desiree Linnette, 43.

    This image was posted to Facebook on October 28, 2023. According to Fox’s daughters, Debra Fox left the Carlisle Street home in the summer of 2023. She was staying at a local hotel, possibly with the group of people she had previously lived with at Carlisle Street, including Linnette.

    If that date stamp reflects the actual day the photo was taken, we are looking at the face of a woman, Linnette, who already viciously tortured and participated in the murder of a woman who was supposed to be her friend and possible love interest, Nicole Cuevas, 38.

    That is the face of a woman with a body in the basement.

    Linnette was also involved in the false imprisonment and assault on Anthony Cook, age 38, just three months before this.

    So far, there is no evidence that Debra Fox participated in the torture or murder of Cuevas. Fox’s PFA against her nephew Jason Race alleged that Fox was kept locked in her room.

    The exact date of Debra Fox’s disappearance isn’t clear. In a recent press conference, the Luzerne County D.A. said Fox disappeared in January. In an interview with Fox’s daughters in March 2024, they said they last saw her in November 2023, at a hotel.

    “I haven’t seen her since November,” Melissa Fox told WNEP. “I left the hotel, and she was there, and after that, nothing.”

    Here is the WNEP news interview with the Fox sisters from March 13, 2024:

  • Vigil planned for murder victim Nicole Cuevas, deceased W-B woman Debra Jane Fox

    Homicide victim Nicole Cuevas
    Debra Fox, deceased former 142 Carlisle St homeowner


    A candlelight vigil is planned for Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre in honor of murder victim Nicole Cuevas and former 142 Carlisle Street homeowner Debra Jane Fox, whose body was found behind the Host Inn hotel in Wilkes-Barre. The public is invited to attend.

    The D.A. has not yet released a cause and manner of death for Fox.

    View the Facebook Event page here:

    https://www.facebook.com/events/796131918675793

  • Murder suspect Faith Beamer in ironic Street Talk column

    Faith Beamer, aka Fay Beamer, age 38, is one of five suspects arrested for the torture and murder of Nicole Cuevas in Wilkes-Barre.

    What she is accused of is very graphic and disturbing.

    The Citizens voice reports that “Beamer dug her fingers into Cuevas-Ingram’s eyes, causing severe damage and blindness. Beamer also stabbed and slashed at Cuevas-Ingram’s back, using fishing line to stitch up one of the wounds, police said.”


    Back in April 2017, Faith Beamer was asked by the Citizens Voice Street Talk column, “Do you believe in the death penalty?”

    Here is what she said.

    Faith Beamer, murder suspect, said she believes we need the death penalty.
    Faith Beamer said she believes in the death penalty. From “Street Talk,” (April 23, 2017) Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, PA

    Pennsylvania technically is a death penalty state, but no one’s been executed since 1999. The last execution was Gary Heidnik, a Philadelphia serial killer who abducted, tortured, and raped six women, killing two, in a dungeon he built in his basement.

    There is currently a moratorium on executions in PA and a push to abolish the death penalty in the state.

    Extra: More Beamer from news archives

    28/22 News has been digging through its archives. They found this footage of Faith Beamer from June 2016. She is at the soup kitchen and appears to be crying for her murdered friend Kurt Swan. I don’t see any tears, though.

    Sources:

    “Street Talk,” The Citizens Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Sunday, April 23, 2017, digital archives

    [Paywall] “Court records detail history of horrors at murder house,” The Citizens Voice, April 11, 2024

    “Five things to know about the death penalty in Pa.” The Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Feb 24, 2023

    “Wilkes-Barre homicide investigation suspect previously interviewed” Pahomepage.com, April 10, 2024

  • Murder suspect Jason Race for years knew man he and Linnette held captive and physically assaulted

    Mugshot of Jason Race, one of the murder suspects in the Nicole Cuevas homicide.
    Mugshot of Jason Race, one of the murder suspects in the Nicole Cuevas homicide.

    Back in 2012, Jason Paul Race, one of five people arrested for the horrific torture and murder of Michigan woman Nicole Cuevas at 142 Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre, was involved in a sketchy car accident in Plymouth Township.

    One of the people in the car with him was Anthony Cook, the man who escaped from the Carlisle Street house of horrors in July 2023 — three months after the murder of Nicole Cuevas.

    It’s shocking how quickly this house of people took a vicious turn against another human being. One of them they knew for many years. The other was a newcomer.

    The 2012 car accident on Mizdail Road occurred when a Pontiac Aztek with Race, Cook, and a young woman in it was hit by a pickup truck that lost control making a left turn. Both vehicles stopped, but the driver of the pickup took off “when he was confronted by 31-year old Jason Rece [sic].”

    The article says the young woman was driving the car, but Race admitted in a later Facebook post that he was actually the person behind the wheel.

    From May 27, 2012, Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Penna.

    Jason Race posted this on one of his Facebook accounts in November 2012:

    “This is to all the people who think u know me why cant u just let the past die to clear things up yes i was the one driving when the azteck got smashed but i was only driving cause she asked me 2 drive.”