The slaying of a fun-loving, outgoing Tamaqua woman on Feb. 1 stunned all who knew her.

Angela Marie Steigerwalt, 35, left her job at Kraft Foods in Lower Macungie at 11 p.m. Jan. 31.Three hours later, she was dead.Police say she was strangled at the hands of Anthony Darrell Heath, a 25-year-old Allentown man with a history of violence.Heath told police he killed Steigerwalt in his apartment in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, strangling her with an electrical cord after she refused to take him to a child custody hearing. The two had been Facebook friends.He then drove Steigerwalt's body, in her car, to a Walmart store in Lower Macungie at about 5:30 a.m., where he used her credit card to buy a plastic tote, lighter fluid and a lighter, among other items.He drove to Jim Thorpe, where he rolled her body down a steep embankment on Flagstaff Road and set it afire, according to police. He left the shopping bag and receipt there. A security video at the store showed him in the checkout line and loading the items into her car.Firefighters discovered Steigerwalt's remains as they extinguished the resulting brush fire at about 10:45 a.m. that day. By that time, Heath was on his way south, presumably to see his brother, Bobby Heath, who lives at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina.Police tracked his travels through the OnStar system in Steigerwalt's car, and he was arrested on auto theft charges on Feb. 2 in Kinston, North Carolina, about 60 miles north of Camp LeJeune.As state troopers brought him back to Pennsylvania, Heath told them he 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 sits in Lehigh County prison, without bail. A trial date has been set for 1:30 p.m. March 23 in Lehigh County.Steigerwalt left behind her husband of 12 years, Gary, and stepson Brendon, and her beloved dog, Tucker.The community continues to mourn.On June 14, about 60 people attended a candlelight vigil for Steigerwalt held in Depot Square in Tamaqua. The event was organized by Steigerwalt's best friend, Gina Hunsicker of Jim Thorpe, and her daughter Gabi.