UPDATE: Elderly woman stabbed to death

CHERRY HILL, N.J. - December 8, 2008

Action News was on the 700 block of Longwood Avenue as investigators removed the body of a 77-year-old woman from her home. Police say Maria Gniotek was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife.

Her 89-year-old husband, Aleksander Dziarski, was hospitalized after apparently trying to kill himself.

Investigators haven't called him a suspect, but they do say nobody else was involved in the tragedy.

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