Posted on 01/23/2013 3:13:29 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Philadelphia (CNN) -- Andrew Cattaneo is still in shock.
It's been only a day since his neighbor across the street, Melissa Ketunuti, was found dead in the basement of her row home Monday afternoon, her hands and feet bound, her body set on fire.
Standing in the doorway of his home, Cattaneo watched as police detectives returned to the scene Tuesday while news reporters huddled nearby trying to stay warm on the blustery January afternoon.
"She was very pleasant, very nice, very friendly and quiet," Cattaneo said, looking across the street. "It's very upsetting."
Although authorities were awaiting the final autopsy report, Philadelphia Police Capt. James Clark, homicide commanding officer, said at a news conference Tuesday morning that Ketunuti, a 35-year-old physician, apparently was strangled. There were no immediately obvious signs of sexual assault, Clark said.
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Hmmmm .. that Kontiki really did some travelin' ...
BAN MATCHES.
Thank goodness she’s not black and living - or used to be - in Chicago or else the media wouldn’t care.
Depends how old you are. The ancient Greeks believed that your past - the known - was in front of you. Your future - the unknown and unseen - was behind you.
The name is Hawaiian.
I dunno about that "world name profiler." This is the second time it ran me down to a total wrong Zip Code :o)
Yes. As a parent, these stories about murder of young women and men just bring tears to my eyes. My BIL’s brother was murdered many years ago. Pray for her family to have strength to get through this.
The "Center City" section is very middle/upper-middle class. The term "row house" does not mean "dilapidated slum house". In this context it just means a house that shares common walls with the neighboring house. She was a resident/research fellow, and was likely making good money, but would not be making huge money until after she passed her boards.
True. There are some areas of the city that were once run down, but hae now "trendy" in recent years (Northern Liberties, the Art Museum area.) Row Homes in those areas which sold for about $ 75,000 ten or fifteen years ago are now selling for $ 300,000 - $ 500,000.
time to take that link off your desktop.
And as a parent you are not supposed bury your kids. Your kids are supposed to bury you.
Better ban rope.
Notice the inane nature of our “political leaders”. The public doesn’t need guns to defend themselves. It’s all rainbows and unicorns out there.
Somebody once told me that true happiness is the Grandfather passes, then the Father, then the Child. So true.
America is being, and has been, programmed to think with subliminal devices.
In your case, a program that gives false information .. (class project: input, barack hussein obama .. Irish ?)
and my favorite;
After swiping (hmm, that means stolen in MY neighborhood) your card at the store, the reader asks, "Is $85.32 OK ?", to which you automatically ... get it? ... AUTOMATICALLY .. punch "yes", and your card is debitted.
I always turn it on the clerk (whom is not really paying attention and only the older cashiers look at me and smile knowingly .. )..
"How would I know ?"
'Cause the machine says so
Isn't that how we got the president?
(My wife hates going shopping with me ... I start trouble everywhere I go)
I don’t think doctors are compensated nearly enough for what they do, how many years they have to go to school, and the responsibilities they have. If government would just butt out and let the market work, then doctors and patients would be better off.
No, I am not buttering you up just because you are a doctor... unless you live close to me. ;-)
Some of those row houses price at the upper six figures - Society Hill.
Just ‘cause she was a doctor doesn’t mean she was very wealthy. Hundreds of thousands in student debt, maybe still in residency. The big bucks don’t kick in right away and under Obamacare, maybe won’t ever.
You ain’t kidding. I remember serving arrest warrants in Northern Liberties - Society Hill’s poor cousin.
You had to get control of the rooftops first or you’re in trouble.
Plebbo.
Peffy Plebbo.
Yeah. It’d probably tell me Cyterski is Irish :o)
I know what you mean. Both of our sons were home-schooled: the older one entered the public school system in 10th grade, the younger one in 7th grade.
They can make change as easily as breathing.
Their friends see this as some sort of inexplicable genius. Just because their brains work within what I would call a normal range.
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