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Who was Christine Englehardt and how did she die?
SPRING breaker Christine Englehardt, 24, was allegedly left for dead after being drugged and raped in a hotel in Miami, Florida.
She had travelled alone on vacation before her tragic death Thursday.
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Who was Christine Englehardt?
Christine Englehardt had travelled to Miami alone on vacation from her home in Pennsylvania, before her death last Thursday.
The 24-year-old was a resident of Richboro, Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
She had attended Council Rock High School North in Newtown, Bucks County before graduating in 2014.
Work
From 2018 to 2021, she was an assistant manager at Jules Thin Crust Pizza in Newtown.
Jules Thin Crust Pizza owner John Ordway described her as “a lovely young woman who was well-respected by her coworkers and staff.”
Friends
Her best friend Hailey Davis described her as a good person, reported WSVN.
““I’m just shocked that the fact that she’s really gone, it’s been really hard,” said Englehardt’s best friend Hailey Davis.
“She was a good person. She didn’t deserve anything like that to happen to her.”
The keen runner had previously completed the Philadelphia Love Run half marathon in 2019.
Amanda Soda-Winfrey, her godmother, paid tribute on social media: “Christine, may you Rest In Peace you beautiful angel. I am so sorry this happened to you. You are so loved. #justiceforchristine Life is unfair and people are sick. You did not deserve this.”
How did Christine Englehardt die?
Evoire Collier, 21 and Dorian Taylor, 24, have been charged in connection with Englehardt’s death in Miami Beach.
Her father revealed to NBC Miami that Englehardt traveled alone to Florida.
The two men, both from North Carolina, were accused of drugging, raping and then stealing from Englehardt – who died at a hotel after they left her.
Collier and Taylor were reportedly captured in surveillance video entering the Albion Hotel on Thursday with Englehardt.
A half-hour later, the two men were seen leaving without the woman, according to NBC Miami. They were arrested over the weekend.
Englehardt, who was visiting from Pennsylvania, was found dead in her hotel room on Thursday.
Court hearing
During a Monday bond hearing, a prosecutor said that Englehardt was so intoxicated while she was at the hotel that she could not give consent to either of the accused men.
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Judge Mindy Glazer said in court: “The victim couldn’t even pick up the phone to call the police or 9-1-1 after they did what they did to her.”
One of the defendants reportedly admitted to giving the woman a “green pill” with the characters “a30” on it, but it’s not clear at this time what the pill was or if she died from overdosing on it.
The woman’s cause of death is pending along with a toxicology report.
