Police: Killer left hateful messages at bathtub killing site
UPPER DARBY, Pa. --Police say a "sadistic" killer left behind hateful messages - including at least one written on a wall - in the suburban Philadelphia apartment where a professional woman was found slain in her bathtub.
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says it appears 36-year-old Markia Benson was beaten and strangled before co-workers found her nude body in the bathtub of her suburban Philadelphia apartment on Wednesday. The workers went there after Benson didn't show up at the Chester packaging company where she worked.
Eight detectives have been assigned to the case, Chitwood said.
Police say they were questioning a person of interest Thursday, but there was no immediate indication anyone had been charged in her death.
Chitwood says Benson likely knew her killer, and said some of the written messages contained words only her killer would know.