A Bristol Township exterminator has been found guilty to murdering a pediatrician and researcher in 2013.
Jason Smith, 39, of Bristol Township’s Levittown section, faces a a mandatory life sentence without the parole, according to the Daily Mail.
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Smith was working as a contractor for a Newtown-based pest exterminator when he was called to Ketunuti’s residence in Center City, Philadelphia. City police said following Smith’s arrest that something went “terribly wrong” and the Levittown man murdered the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia pediatrician.
From the Associated Press:
“She told me I was incompetent,” Smith said, according to a police statement. “She said that I shouldn’t be an exterminator. I tried to leave. … She stood in my way. I strangled her. I tied her up and set her on fire.”
Credit: ketunuti.blogspot.com
Smith’s attorney said “sometimes innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit.”
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Police said no signs of sexual assault were found on Ketunuti’s body.
Philadelphia authorities poured over surveillance video and talked to scores of people in Center City and Levittown when building the case.
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In 2013, family and neighbors that lived on Smith’s street, Crescent Lane, said they were shocked when they learned of the accusations.
