Man kills self after apparently strangling girlfriend

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A prosecutor says a suburban Philadelphia man apparently accidentally strangled his live-in girlfriend days before killing himself.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman says police went to the Bridgeport apartment the couple shared to notify the woman of her boyfriend’s suicide by hanging Saturday. Instead, police found her badly decomposed body. Ferman said Monday that it appears the 42-year-old woman was strangled during a consensual sexual encounter. She says the boyfriend left a note saying her death was a terrible accident.