Police: 'Making Progress' in Kimberly Cardona Murder

Salisbury Township Police Chief Allen Stiles said investigators are "making progress" on the of Whitehall, whose beaten and stabbed body was found July 5 in a wooded area off Lanze Lane by a

Stiles could provide no other information. The case is being investigated by , the Lehigh County District Attorney's office and the coroner's office. Stiles said the department is busy working on a number of investigations. "We're at a critical stage," he said.

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Cardona, 20, had been according to her family. An autopsy by the Lehigh County Coroner's office revealed she died sometime after 7 p.m. July 4 of blunt and sharp trauma. The spot where her body was found is near the border with Upper Saucon Township.

told the Morning Call she didn't have a boyfriend, and that some of her past relationships had ended badly. A friend said Cardona was out with a man Tuesday who was going to take her to a restaurant, but the friend didn't know who the man was and never heard from Cardona again.