GREENSBURG, Pa. -- A memorial service was scheduled Sunday for Jennifer Daugherty.

Six people have been arrested in connection with Daugherty's death.

Her body was found beaten and stabbed inside a garbage container in a Greensburg middle school parking lot.

Thursday, police said a man found the body of Jennifer Daugherty, 30, who had been missing since Monday, when he saw the container partially beneath his truck. Police said the man parked the truck Wednesday night in a lot at Greensburg Salem Middle School along North Main Street.

Joy Burkholder, the victim's sister, said Daugherty was mentally challenged and trusted everyone. Stepfather Bobby Murphy, 62, of Mount Pleasant, said the victim had the mental abilities of a 12- to 14-year-old.

Charged in connection with slaying were Ricky Smyrnes, 23, Peggy Miller, 27, Amber Meidinger, 20, Robert Masters, 36, Melvin Knight, 20, and a 17-year-old girl from Greensburg.

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All of the suspects are in the Westmoreland County Jail without bond. Their charges include criminal homicide, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit homicide, aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.

Murphy said he was the last family member to see Daugherty alive, on Monday, when he took her to get on a bus to Greensburg. She had both a dentist and a counselor there who helped her with a mental disability, he said.

Daugherty had become involved in a community center in Greensburg where she met several people whose names she mentioned as friends, Murphy said -- including several whose first names matched those of some of the suspects.

Murphy said he's not sure which one Daugherty had an appointment with, but later that day, she called home and asked permission to spend the night at "Peggy's" house. Murphy said his stepdaughter planned to return home Tuesday.

"I don't know 'em personally, but Jennifer mentioned some of their names as being her friends -- but evidently not," he said.

According to police, Daugherty's body was found with her hair either cut or shaven off. She was bound with holiday lights and clothing in a black plastic garbage bag stuffed inside a residential rubber garbage can. The can was rolled underneath the truck.

Police said Daugherty was struck several times with a crutch, a bathroom towel rack, fists and a vacuum hose before she was stabbed.

According to police, she was also fed vegetable oil, spices, detergent, urine and medications and forced to write a suicide note before she was stabbed to death.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, Knight admitted stabbing Daugherty in the chest, side and neck, and he and Smyrnes carried her body to the parking lot. All six defendants admitted their involvement and implicated others, according to police.

Police said Daugherty was a known acquaintance of Christopher Swogger, who lives in a duplex in Greensburg. Residents who live in the unit below Swogger told police they heard a loud "bang," which sounded like a "body slam" Wednesday night.

The residents said they heard a "violent fight" and a "female screaming" before everything went silent.

Another resident of that apartment said Smyrnes and two women came to their apartment afterward, and the man asked them to turn their television down, saying his girlfriend was laying down with a headache, the affidavit said.

"It's really kind of sickening that it happened right there. I can't believe it," said neighbor Amie Gillingham.

Famed pathologist and former Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht conducted the autopsy.