Video After The Jump
MIAMI (WPVI) -- A 24-year-old Pennsylvania woman was found dead inside a South Beach Miami hotel room after two men drugged & raped her, police said.
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, & Dorian Taylor, 24, both of North Carolina, were arrested over the weekend & charged with sexual battery & burglary. They are currently being held without bond.
The men are also accused of stealing her cell phone, cash & credit cards once Englehardt was unconscious.
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.
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 & 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.
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