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Suspect questioned in Pittsburgh murder
of Iowa lawmaker's sisters: TV
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[February 20, 2014]
(Reuters) — Pittsburgh police were
questioning a man on Wednesday they say could be linked to the killing
of two sisters of an Iowa politician who were found shot nearly two
weeks ago, Pennsylvania media reported.
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 Susan and Sarah Wolfe, aged 44 and 38 respectively, the sisters of
Iowa state representative Mary Wolfe, were found slain on February 7
in the basement of a home they shared.
On Wednesday, Pittsburgh police were interviewing a man while they
executed a search warrant at his residence next door to where the
sisters lived, according to WTAE-TV, an ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh.
A Pittsburgh police department spokesman was not immediately
available for comment.
Sources told the television station the two women were found dead,
each with a gunshot wound to her head and their bodies doused with
bleach.
Wolfe, a Democrat serving her second term in the Iowa House of
Representatives, posted a message on her Facebook page following
their deaths saying her family was "heartbroken, but grateful" for
the support they had received from friends and colleagues.
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Wolfe is the oldest of eight children in her family, according to
her biography on the Iowa House website.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; editing by Eric M. Johnson and Paul Tait)
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