City workers clean up in front of the vacant Ada H. Lewis Middle School on Monday, after Kada Scott's body was found on the property over the weekend. Read more Tom Gralish / Staff Photographer

by Max Marin and Kristen A. Graham Published Oct. 21, 2025, 12:37 p.m. ET

When it first opened in 1973, Ada H.H. Lewis Middle School was a source of deep pride for East Germantown , the kind of state-of-the-art educational facility that only suburban kids had at the time.

But on Saturday, when police found Kada Scott’s corpse buried in a shallow grave in the woods of the long-ago vacated school grounds, ending a two-week search for the missing 23-year-old Mount Airy woman, the Rev. Chester H. Williams saw only decades of failure.

“It’s a disgrace,” said Williams, a pastor

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