 After two hours of deliberations at a nine-day trial in Charles County, Maryland, Belk was living in Suitland with her boyfriend and worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the time of her murder. A day after her boyfriend reported her missing, her body was found along Route 277 in Charles County. Former Congressman George Santos has lost his bid to toss some of the criminal charges against him, a federal judge denying Santos' motion to dismiss three fraud charges ruling he failed to meet the legal standard.