Kensington strangler how many victims

Identical evidence led police to believe the same man had murdered both women. After Mahoney, 27, was killed on Dec.

He was arrested in late January A DNA sample taken from him after arrest matched those taken from the victims. Reporter John Loftus can be reached at —— or jloftus bsmphilly. All of the women's bodies were found in a 10 block radius of one another. The African American man was adopted by a Spanish-speaking family as a child, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

He had no arrests as a minor, but turned to drugs as he entered adulthood. Rodriguez spent time in jail in the summer of before being convicted in October on felony drug charges. He was sentenced to one year of probation just weeks before the murder of Eileen Goldberg on Nov. Eileen Goldberg's father, Joe Goldberg, is relieved that the "Kensington Strangler" may have been caught.

Goldberg called Rodriguez's statement to investigators that he didn't mean to kill the women "idiotic. To choke the life out of somebody, you've got to be squeezing their neck for a considerable amount of time. If it's something that you didn't want to do, there was plenty of time not to do it," Goldberg said. Eileen Goldberg, a year-old nursing student, had struggled with prescription drug addiction, but had recently celebrated 30 days of sobriety before her murder.

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You may also like. Radio Times. About Dana DiFilippo Read more. DanaDiFilippo ddifilippo whyy. Antonio Rodriguez was arrested after DNA linked him to the attacks. Story highlights Antonio Rodriguez is convicted of murder in the deaths of three women The women were killed and sexually assaulted in in Philadelphia Their assailant was nicknamed the "Kensington Strangler" for the neighborhood of the crimes Rodriguez is sentenced three life terms; prosecutor says the city "is a little bit safer".