By Bill Galluccio
Photo: Montgomery County Police
A 26-year-old woman is facing murder charges after she allegedly killed her 92-year-old roommate, renowned sculptor
Nancy Ann Frankel. Authorities in Montgomery County, Maryland, said they received a 911 call from the suspect,
Julia Birch, in which she admitted to the crime.
Officials did not release any details about the murder but said that Birch s statements to investigators matched up with the evidence they found at the scene. They did not provide a motive for the killing.
Birch had been living with Frankel in her Kensington home for the past seven months and was an acquaintance of the victim s family members, Montgomery County Department of Police spokesperson
Woman, 26, admits killing elderly roommate, 92, who welcomed her into her home
Julia Birch is accused of killing renowned sculptor Nancy Ann Frankel, 92, in the US state of Maryland. She then allegedly called the police to confess to the crime
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By Bill Galluccio
Photo: Montgomery County Police
A 26-year-old woman is facing murder charges after she allegedly killed her 92-year-old roommate, renowned sculptor
Nancy Ann Frankel. Authorities in Montgomery County, Maryland, said they received a 911 call from the suspect,
Julia Birch, in which she admitted to the crime.
Officials did not release any details about the murder but said that Birch s statements to investigators matched up with the evidence they found at the scene. They did not provide a motive for the killing.
Birch had been living with Frankel in her Kensington home for the past seven months and was an acquaintance of the victim s family members, Montgomery County Department of Police spokesperson
By Bill Galluccio
Photo: Montgomery County Police
A 26-year-old woman is facing murder charges after she allegedly killed her 92-year-old roommate, renowned sculptor
Nancy Ann Frankel. Authorities in Montgomery County, Maryland, said they received a 911 call from the suspect,
Julia Birch, in which she admitted to the crime.
Officials did not release any details about the murder but said that Birch s statements to investigators matched up with the evidence they found at the scene. They did not provide a motive for the killing.
Birch had been living with Frankel in her Kensington home for the past seven months and was an acquaintance of the victim s family members, Montgomery County Department of Police spokesperson
MENTOR MURDER
Sculptor Nancy Ann Frankel, 92, ‘killed by female family friend, 26, who she took into her home to mentor’
M.L. Nestel
Updated: 20:56 ET, Jul 29 2021
A RENOWNED sculptor was found dead and a young apprentice who lived with her allegedly admitted to killing her.
When Montgomery County cops arrived at Nancy Ann Frankel’s home on Spruell Drive at around 8:20am on Wednesday to investigate a dead body - 26-year-old Julia Birch allegedly told them that she killed her mentor.
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Montgomery County cops arrived at sculptor s Nancy Ann Frankel’s home and found the artist dead in a bedroomCredit: Nancy Ann Frankel