An Amish man who reportedly told police he put a blanket over a neighbor’s head while they had sex and realized afterward she had died has been charged with murder, officials announced Tuesday in a press release.
Samuel Hochstetler was interviewed at the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, nearly two months after his roommate, Mose Troyer, said he found the body of their neighbor Rosanna Kinsinger, 28, inside her Rutland, Ohio, home in their Amish community.
“This case was such a tragedy to those who knew Rosanna. She was a beloved individual in her community,” Sheriff Scott Fitch said in a statement in the press release. “Detectives have worked around the clock searching for answers and were able to get those answers. Hopefully this investigation helps bring some closure to the victim’s family and on behalf of the Sheriff’s Office we offer our deepest condolences.”
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Too Fab, Hochstetler told deputies that “he did have sexual intercourse with Rosanna Kinsinger and put a blanket over her head during and when he was finished, he rolled her over and realized she was not alive.”
Kinsinger’s death was deemed suspicious from the start, although preliminary autopsy results were inconclusive, the sheriff’s office wrote on Tuesday.
Hochstetler eventually emerged as a person of interest in the case, according to the news release.
After not seeing his neighbor all day, Troyer discovered Kinsinger dead on March 13 with her goat inside the house, and called authorities. He told WSAZ it was disturbing that he had been living with Hochstetler for weeks after the alleged crime. They had been roommates for only a matter of months.
