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Md. Woman Charged For Fatally Stabbing Roommate

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- Montgomery County police have arrested a woman in the stabbing death of her roommate in their Rockville apartment.

Police say 53-year-old Rita Sanders-Campfield is charged with murder in the death of 67-year-old Chong Park. No attorney is listed for Sanders-Campfield in online court records.

The women were living together as part of a nonprofit group that provides affordable housing for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Police say Park's daughter called the group Tuesday to say she couldn't reach her mother for several days. A worker soon after found Chong dead on her bedroom floor. A large, butcher knife was in her back.

Police found Sanders-Campfield in her own bed with what looked like bite marks on her arm. They also found her journal, which said Park was "evil" and practiced witchcraft.

(Copyright 2014 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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