- Oct 14, 2005
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Philadelphia Exterminator Jason Smith Charged in Doctor's Killing
So an exterminator exterminated the lady instead of the rodents he was called for. What I don't get is how this could be? What triggered this mans outrage when performing his job? Really sad.
Oh yeah and we should ban strangling people.

An exterminator named Jason Smith was arrested and charged today in the strangling and burning death of Philadelphia pediatrician Melissa Ketunuti.
Smith, 36, had been sent to Ketunuti's home on a service call where the two got into "some kind of argument" in Ketunuti's basement on Monday, Capt. James Clark of the Philadelphia police department said this morning.
"At her home they got into an argument. It went terribly wrong. He struck her, and knocked her to the ground," Clark said. "Immediately he jumped on top of her, started strangling her. She passed out, and then he set her body on fire."
So an exterminator exterminated the lady instead of the rodents he was called for. What I don't get is how this could be? What triggered this mans outrage when performing his job? Really sad.
Oh yeah and we should ban strangling people.