{"id":69862,"date":"2025-12-24T21:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69862\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:23:06","slug":"woman-charged-with-murder-for-allegedly-stabbing-daughter-to-death-in-delaware-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69862\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with murder for allegedly stabbing daughter to death in Delaware County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Delaware County woman has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing her own daughter to death inside their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Diana Grovola, 57, is charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, criminal homicide and possession of an instrument of crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crime was discovered around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday on the 200 block of South Bishop Avenue in the Secane section of Upper Darby Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say the victim&#8217;s father &#8211; who is also Grovola&#8217;s husband &#8211; was working an overnight shift. He came home, discovered the crime scene, and called 911.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, police say his 23-year-old daughter was already dead by that point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The motive for the killing was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grovola is also charged with cruelty to animals for allegedly stabbing the family dog, which was being treated by a veterinarian for its wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She is behind held without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delaware County woman has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing her own daughter to death inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[785,212,36838,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-69862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-criminal-homicide","tag-delaware-county","tag-diana-grovola","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69862","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=69862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}