Missing woman found dead in Ross apartment, boyfriend in custody

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — 5:15 P.M. UPDATE THURSDAY: Miller's body was laying in Metz's living room for three days, according to a criminal complaint.

When officers entered the apartment, "an obvious deceased female body was observed lying on the living room floor with blood on her face."

Metz was also found sitting in a bathtub filled with water, holding a large kitchen knife. He was taken to a hospital and treated for self-inflicted wounds, before police brought him to the department for questioning.

According to police, Metz even told them he tried to cover up the crime by driving Miller's car to Rivers Casino so it couldn't be traced to him. He's also accused of throwing her phone into North Park Lake.

Surveillance video from the casino shows Metz returned one more time.

He told police it was to back Miller's car into another spot in an attempt to hide her license plate.

1:37 P.M. UPDATE THURSDAY: 

Channel 11 is uncovering more details about what led up to the murder of a Pittsburgh woman whose body was found in a Ross Township apartment Wednesday.

According to a criminal complaint that Channel 11 obtained, 68-year-old Robert Metz admitted to strangling Dolores Miller to death.

Metz told police that the two had recently ended a romantic relationship and Miller was retrieving some of her belongings when the incident happened.

Police have released a mug shot of Metz.

10:30 P.M. UPDATE: Robert Metz Sr., 68, has been charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.

According to police, Metz admitted to them that he strangled Miller on Sunday when she came to his apartment to break up with him.

Police found both of them Wednesday in the apartment.

10:10 P.M. UPDATE: A woman reported missing over the weekend is the victim in this case.

According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office, Dolores Miller's body was found on Highland Pines Drive.

7:28 P.M. UPDATE: Police have a "person of interest" in custody in the investigation.

The woman found dead was not a resident of the complex, police said.

Police were called to a North Hills apartment complex Wednesday afternoon to investigate a suspicious death.

Investigators told Channel 11 a woman was found dead at the Perrytown Apartments on Highland Pines Drive.

Police were called around 3 p.m. to the seniors high-rise.

Police are saying very little about this case, only that they are investigating a suspicious death and that the victim is a woman.

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