{"id":301364,"date":"2026-10-07T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301364\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:06:10","slug":"sources-man-found-dead-in-closet-in-philadelphia-woman-facing-homicide-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301364\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Man found dead in closet in Philadelphia; woman facing homicide charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Man found dead in closet; woman facing homicide charges<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791353169_747_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 7, 2026 4:04AM<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Philadelphia police have arrested a woman in connection with a fatal stabbing in the city&#8217;s Germantown neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded to a home on the 600 block of East Chelten Avenue around 6:50 p.m. last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At the scene, sources said officers discovered a man dead inside a closet in a third-floor apartment. Sources say he had been stabbed multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim was identified as 37-year-old Dorakoma Lim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Tuesday, police announced the arrest of 34-year-old Marianne Lara Wright. She has been charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and possessing an instrument of crime.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19915759_100626-wpvi-Marianne-Lara-Wright-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators have not released details about what led to the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Authorities also have not said whether Wright and Lim knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sources: Man found dead in closet; woman facing homicide charges WPVI Wednesday, October 7, 2026 4:04AM Follow 6abc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124091,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-301364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-124091","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}