Article: Killer haunts Mantua residents

Kendall Wilson
Philadelphia Tribune, The
09-30-1994
Killer haunts Mantua residents.

By Kendall Wilson

Tribune Staff

Police are not convinced there is a serial killer. Residents are not convinced that there isn't.

But while fear continued to grow in the Mantua section of West Philadelphia after the discovery of yet another African-American woman's body early this week, there was also a cautious sigh of relief that authorities will be pulling out all stops to find the person or persons responsible for the mysterious killings.

Police said the body of a badly decomposed woman was found in an abandoned house Tuesday on 41st Street near Wallace, the fifth in a series of deaths of women who prowled ...

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