Man, Wife Die After Bloody Knife Battle
"The scene looked like a Quentin Tarantino movie..."
By DANIELLE JOHNSON
Updated 8:41 AM EDT, Mon, Sep 14, 2009
A husband and wife were found dead in their Northeast Philadelphia home Saturday night after what police suspect may have been a bloody knife battle between the two, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.
"The scene looked like a Quentin Tarantino movie," a source told the paper.
The bodies of 40-year-old Robert Diandrea and his 39-year-old wife Sophia were found inside 121 Greycourt Road in the Bustleton section of the city around 5:30pm.
Both victims were stabbed multiple times, according to police. Investigators are trying to decide now if this is a case of murder-suicide of if each person killed the other. Either way, police do not suspect that anyone else was involved.
Robert worked for the city's Water Department and Sophia was a fifth-grade teacher, according to the paper. They had three sons. Police were called after the two youngest, ages 13 and 10, went to a neighbor's house on Saturday when they coudn't get inside their house and then spotted blood on one of the doors.
Get More: Philadelphia Daily News
First Published: Sep 12, 2009 10:31 PM EDT
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