Foster Mom of Missing 10-Year-Old Girl Found Dead in Trunk of Car Charged with Her Murder
Malayshia AlfordCredit: Philadelphia Police Department
Carprice Williams, the foster mom of a missing 10-year-old girl whose body was found on Wednesday, Nov. 4, faces seven charges, including murder, in connection with the girl’s death
Malayshia Alford, from West Philadelphia, was last seen entering their home on Oct. 22, and her body was found in a vehicle in Lindenwold, N.J. almost two weeks later
The manner of her death was ruled to be blunt force trauma, and prosecutors said surveillance footage showed her body being removed from the home four days after she was last seen
The foster mother of a missing 10-year-old girl whose body was found in the trunk of a car has been charged in connection with her murder, according to prosecutors.
Malayshia Alford’s body was discovered in the vehicle outside an apartment block in Lindenwold, N.J., at about 11 p.m. local time on Wednesday, Nov. 4.
The Gloucester-Camden-Salem Counties Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy on Thursday, Nov. 5, and ruled the cause of death to be blunt force trauma, according to a Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office press release shared with PEOPLE.
Malayshia was living with a foster family in West Philadelphia, about 15 miles from Lindenwold at the time she went missing late last month, and the District Attorney’s Office shared on Thursday that her foster mom, Carprice Williams, had been charged with her murder, as well as six additional charges.
Malayshia AlfordCredit: Philadelphia Police Department
Williams, 36, faces charges of murder, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal use of a communication facility, possession of an instrument of crime, abuse of a corpse, recklessly endangering another person and tampering with evidence, per the release.
Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski added in a press conference on Thursday that police found “an indication that there were instances of abuse happening, and that items were used to carry out that abuse.”
Alford had last been seen going into her home on Oct. 22, and surveillance footage recorded four days later and recovered by police allegedly showed Alford’s body being moved out of the property, per the release.
“It was that video that then led law enforcement officials to a suspect vehicle, which then led law enforcement officials to find that vehicle and find a person that they wanted to speak to related to that vehicle,” said Toczylowski.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner with officials at a press conference on Nov. 5, 2026Credit: Philadelphia District Attorney's Office Facebook
District Attorney Larry Krasner added in the press conference that two vehicles were involved in the case, claiming that Alford was removed from the home in one vehicle before being transferred to the vehicle in which her body was found.
He also stated that the person who allegedly moved Alford’s body was not Williams, but declined to say who they believed the individual was.
Malayshia AlfordCredit: Philadelphia Police Department
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“This is truly a sad day for Philadelphia,” Krasner said in the statement. “For nine days, family members, friends, concerned neighbors and our law enforcement partners scoured the Philadelphia area, hoping to find Malayshia alive. Sadly, that is not the case.”
“There are no words we can say to ease her family’s pain from this unimaginable loss, but the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is committed to ensuring there will be a just and vigorous prosecution in this case,” he added.
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