Philly police probe deaths of 3 women who were strangled

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA

Authorities say a woman has been strangled in a Philadelphia apartment not far from where two other women met the same fate.

Twenty-two-year-old Allison Edwards of Levittown was found Friday night in a building in the city’s Juniata Park section.

The medical examiner ruled Saturday she had been strangled.

The apartment is about two miles from the Kensington area where two women were sexually assaulted and strangled last month.

Police say DNA evidence appears to link those two killings.

It’s not yet clear if Edwards’ death is linked as well.

WPVI-TV reports police have formed a task force to investigate the slayings.

Two other women have told police they were assaulted in separate incidents in the same area.