Arrested: Rita Sanders-Campfield, 53, allegedly stabbed Chong Park, 67, because she was practicing witchcraft and needed to be 'perfected', according to her journal A grandmother allegedly stabbed her roommate to death with a pair of scissors and a butcher knife because she thought she was evil and practiced witchcraft. Teacher Rita Sanders-Campfield has been charged with murder after Chong Park, 67, was found dead inside the apartment they shared in a quiet condominium in North Bethesda, Maryland. The 53-year-old Duke graduate was still lying in her bed when a maintenance worker walked into the property to make a routine repair and discovered the victim's body.
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Rita Sanders-Campfield, 53, is accused of killing Chong Park, 67
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The pair lived in a quiet condominium in North Bethesda, Maryland
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Detectives discovered a journal Sanders-Campfield kept that suggested she thought Park was 'evil' and needed to be 'perfected'
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Suspect revealed she had a history of mental illness in a recent speech
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Appeared in court via a TV link, a social worker urged that she should be sent for psychiatric evaluation
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