BREAKING: SUSPECT QUESTIONED, MISS USA HOPEFUL VANISHES FROM WORK, WHERE'S KADA

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Police are desperately searching for 23-year-old Kada Scott, a Miss Pennsylvania hopeful.

Kada, a recent Penn State grad, was last seen at The Terrace at Chestnut Hill, shortly after clocking in for an overnight shift at the nursing home on Saturday, October 4. Kada did not return home, and her car was found still parked at the facility.

Kada is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 120 pounds, with long black hair. She was last seen wearing black scrubs.

Anyone with information is asked to call Philadelphia PD at 215-686-TIPS.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Derek Smith - Criminal Defense Attorney
Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter - Clinical Psychologist (specializing in psychological evaluations and risk assessments for individuals involved in the criminal justice system), Author of “Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug Addition,” and “Aftershock: How Past Event Shake Up Your Life Today;" Producer of “Utter Nonsense,” a documentary of exploration of addition and severe mental illness, available to stream on Apple TV and Prime Video; Instagram & Facebook: DrGeriLynnUtter
Brian Fitzgibbons - VP of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security; Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security, Kingsman Philanthropic's 2022 rescue missions of women and children in Ukraine, Iraq War Veteranide_security
Joe Holden - Chief Investigative Reporter and Anchor, CBS News Philadelphia, cbsnews.com/Philadelphia, Facebook: Joe Holden Reporter, X: @JoeHoldenCBS3
Sydney Sumner - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.7	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:10.4	A suspect being questioned at this hour as a Miss USA hopeful seemingly vanishes into thin air from work. Tonight, where is CADA? We are being
0:26.9	led to believe that there is a chance Cada is still alive. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime
0:33.4	stories. I want to thank you for being with us. In the last hours, Ellie Law Enforcement, making a public statement in the disappearance
0:42.3	of Cata, the Miss USA, hopeful, and they are on the search for a 1999 gold Toyota Camry.
0:51.3	Listen.
0:52.3	We will ask for your help in locating this vehicle, which you'll get a little more information.
0:58.7	It's a 1999 metallic gold Toyota Camry with a Pennsylvania tag of MSX-0797.
1:07.0	But we need to know where this car is.
1:08.9	We need to find this car.
1:10.5	It's a gold-colored Camry, 1999. It has
1:13.6	heavy front-end damage on the left front bumper. All right, that's being described that way several
1:21.0	times. We know it's been in the Mount Area area. We have photos of it in Center City. We have
1:25.6	pictures of it in Grace Ferry area and in southwest Philadelphia.
1:29.6	So it's possible that it could be anywhere.
1:31.6	There is a very strong belief within L.A. law enforcement that Kada has been in that Toyota Camry, that gold-colored Toyota Camry.
1:42.8	This would not be the first time a case has been solved because of
1:46.4	damage to a car. Let me refer you to the case of co-ed Molly Tibbiz, who was kidnapped. Her case
1:57.9	cracked because of damage to the kidnapper slash killers car.
2:04.4	Can we find Kada?
2:06.9	I'll take you back into that press for in just one moment.
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