Police responded around 3 p.m. to a residence in the Moorestowne Woods Apartment Homes located on East Camden Avenue.
At the scene officers found the body of 73-year-old Linda Slavin inside her bedroom. An autopsy determined that she died from strangulation.
Her husband, 73-year-old Gerard Slavin, was arrested and charged with murder.
He was taken to the Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly pending a detention hearing.
Further details on what led to the killing were not immediately released.