Christine Englehardt, 24, was found at the Albion Hotel on Thursday, according to court documents. Englehardt, a Richboro native and graduate of Council Rock North High School, had traveled to Florida by herself.
According to authorities, the body of Christine Englehardt, of Richboro, Bucks County, was found on March 18. Surveillance cameras from the Albion Hotel on James Avenue show her with the two men around 1 a.m. that morning.
Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 24, both of North Carolina, were arrested over the weekend and charged with sexual battery and burglary. They are currently being held without bond.
The men are also accused of stealing her cell phone, cash and credit cards once Englehardt was unconscious, according to a judge.
Samantha DiFrancesco, a close friend of Englehardt’s, said she was a “genuinely good person.”
“She was the person you brought in that lit up the whole room. Her laugh was the most contagious laugh,” said DiFrancesco.
Photos posted on her Facebook page show Christine Englehardt, a pizza shop manager, smiling as she stands across the street from the beach last year, and smiling at the camera in another snap.
Another photo shows Englehardt kissing a dog, with the caption reading, “My baby boy forever.”
In a chilling 2019 post, she described spotting a suspicious man in Pennsylvania’s Tyler State Park and warned friends to “be alert.”
“Always go with your gut,” she wrote. “This is a dangerous world now unfortunately and you never know what anyone’s true intentions are.”
Investigators believe Englehardt made contact with the suspects in a restaurant. One investigator said that a court surveillance video shows the suspects holding the victim up and that the video made it clear she was unable to consent.
“This is the last person I would ever think this would happen to. It just breaks your heart when you know she was a genuinely good person who would do anything for anybody. To think she went through what she went through, it’s sickening; it’s sick,” DiFrancesco said.
Investigators believe the suspects gave the victim a green pill to drug her. The Medical Examiner has not made a ruling on the cause of death as they are still awaiting toxicology results, officials said. If investigators find the pill that led to her death, the suspects could face manslaughter or murder charges.
Two North Carolina men — Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 24 — were arrested in the case Monday for allegedly drugging Englehardt with a “green pill,” raping her, and stealing her credit cards, according to police and reports.
Police said Collier and Taylor were identified by surveillance footage at the hotel, which allegedly caught them arriving with the victim around 1 a.m. Thursday.
Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 24, were charged late Monday with burglary, sexual battery, credit card fraud, and petty theft, according to Miami Beach police. The Miami-Dade County medical examiner had not yet ruled on the cause and manner of her death as of Tuesday, and the suspects may face additional charges once investigators make those rulings.
Englehardt was identified as the victim by police, WBT-News reported.
Miami Beach Detective Luis Alsina said during a court hearing Monday that Taylor could be seen “holding her by the neck so she could stand.”
Collier allegedly told police they met Englehardt at a local restaurant and gave her a drug that police believe to be Percocet, Alsina testified.
The men then took her credit card and left her unconscious.
Police are awaiting a coroner’s report to determine if Englehardt died as a result of the pill, the sexual assault, or another cause.
Those tests could determine if the two men, who are currently charged with burglary, battery, and sexual battery, will also face murder charges, police said.
Englehardt is a graduate of Council Rock High School North and was a manager at Jules Thin Crust Pizza in Newtown.
