An Allentown man who admitted to police that he killed a Tamaqua woman in February 2014 after she changed her mind about taking him to a child custody hearing has won a trial delay and the use of up to $3,000 in public money to pay for defense experts.

Anthony Darrell Heath, 26, who is charged in the death of 35-year-old Angela Steigerwalt, was to face trial on March 23. On Friday, Lehigh County Judge Kelly L. Banach agreed to postpone the trial until June, according to online court records.She denied Heath's request to bar the use of the word "victim" by prosecutors to describe Steigerwalt.Heath is serving as his own defense counsel in the matter.According to the online records, Heath wants more time and public money to consult with experts.Banach granted his request, allowing up to $1,500 for an independent forensic pathologist and another $1,500 for an independent criminal investigator. Both are subject to court approval.According to police reports and court testimony, Steigerwalt, the wife of Gary Steigerwalt, failed to return home on Feb. 1 from her job at Kraft Foods in Allentown, where she worked the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift.Heath admitted to state police that he strangled Steigerwalt, with whom he had been Facebook friends, with an electrical cord in his apartment in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, then took her body to a secluded area on Flagstaff Mountain in Jim Thorpe, where he set her remains on fire. Her body was discovered by firefighters later that morning as they extinguished the brush fire Heath had started.A Walmart shopping bag and receipt linked Heath to the crime. Store security video showed him using Steigerwalt's credit card to buy a plastic tote, lighter fluid and a lighter there shortly before traveling to Jim Thorpe.Heath then fled to North Carolina in Steigerwalt's car. He was caught the next day by state troopers. On their way back to Pennsylvania, Heath told the troopers he had killed Steigerwalt.Lehigh County officials on Feb. 7 charged Heath with homicide, theft by unlawful taking or disposition, receiving stolen property, access device fraud, abuse of a corpse and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. He has been jailed in Lehigh County prison, without bail.Heath has a 2012 conviction for biting his infant son.