An Allentown man has been charged with homicide and other offenses in the death of a Tamaqua woman whose body was discovered in Carbon County on Feb. 1. 

Anthony Darrell Heath, 25, of 506 W. Chew St., second floor rear, Allentown, was charged on Friday, Feb. 7, 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.

Heath had been caught in Kinston, N.C., on Sunday, Feb. 2 driving  a car belonging to victim Angela Steigerwalt.

Court papers say Heath admitted to strangling Steigerwalt to death with an electrical cord in the bedroom of  his apartment. His friend, Dwight McCurry told police Health was engaged in a sexual relationship with Steigerwalt.

He was arraigned on a theft charge at 9 a.m. Friday morning by video before on-call District Judge William Kissner of Palmerton and jailed under $1 million bail. 

A preliminary hearing on that charge is scheduled for 2 p.m. Feb. 19 before District Judge Edward Lewis of Jim Thorpe.

Heath is being arraigned now in Lehigh County on murder charges and will be held without bail.

Firefighters extinguishing a brush fire along Flagstaff Road in Jim Thorpe on Saturday, Feb. 1, discovered the charred body of Angela Steigerwalt, 35. Steigerwalt had finished her shift at Kraft Foods in Allentown at 11 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31.

Heath, Steigerwalt's Facebook friend, was captured on surveillance recording at an Allentown Wal-Mart at about 5 a.m. Feb. 1, using Steigerwalt's credit card to buy a light, lighter fluid and a large plastic tote, which he put into Steigerwalt's car.

Heath was arrested on Feb. 2 while driving her car in Kinston, N.C., on Sunday morning. He had her credit card and driver's license with him.