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Exterminator charged with strangling Pa. doctor

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Jason Smith, 36, an exterminator, has been charged with strangling 35-year-old Dr. Melissa Ketunuti, who was found bound and burned in her city row home on Monday.

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Jason Smith, 36, was charged with murder, arson, abuse of a corpse and risking a catastrophe in the slaying of Dr. Melissa Ketunuti, 35, of Philadelphia.