Police: Pa. man intentionally crashed at about 100 mph, then sat on girlfriend to kill her
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A central Pennsylvania man is charged with suffocating his 17-year-old girlfriend after injuring her by intentionally driving into a guardrail at about 100 miles per hour in the middle of the night.
Police filed homicide and other charges Friday against Benjamin Daniel Klinger for the Dec. 4 death of Sammi Heller on an interstate near Manheim.
Police allege Klinger purposely crashed, then killed Heller by sitting on top of her head until she asphyxiated.
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The person answering the telephone at Klinger's Elizabethtown home on Thursday said Klinger didn't have a lawyer and declined to comment.
Heller allegedly told a friend that Klinger regularly tried to scare her while driving and that he'd threatened to kill them both in a crash.
Klinger is also charged with aggravated assault, drug offenses and driving violations.