LaToyia Figueroa

 

 

Age: 24

 

Summary: waitress and cousin of Philadelphia City Councilman Juan Ramos who was reported missing since mid-July 2005 after she failed to show up to work while she was five months pregnant at the time of her disappearance and was the subject of a massive manhunt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2005, whose case attracted a brief flurry of television attention after several Philadelphia-area bloggers waged a campaign urging networks to give the same attention to Figueroa (who is black and Hispanic), as they did to Natalee Holloway, a white woman who disappeared in Aruba.

 

 

Cause of Death: Murdered by strangulation

 

Born: January 26, 1981

 

Died: July 18, 2005

 

Location: Chester, Pennsylvania