Do you know who murdered 35 year old Samantha Neuwein in 2013? Samantha Neuwein, a 35-year-old White/Caucasian female from Wilmington, Delaware, was found gravely injured inside her apartment on the morning of July 12, 2013. She lived above her family's appliance business in the 300 block of North Shipley Street, a place that should have been familiar and safe. That morning, her mother arrived to open the shop and noticed water leaking from the ceiling.
Concerned, she went upstairs to Samantha's apartment, knocked, and when there was no answer, pushed inside. There, she found her daughter badly wounded.
Police and emergency responders were called to the apartment after the discovery. Samantha was still alive but suffering from severe injuries, including stab wounds, and some reports described her as having also been beaten or bludgeoned. She was taken to Christiana Hospital, where she remained in critical condition. Although the attack happened on July 12, 2013, online sources report that she died from her injuries on July 28, 2013, after about sixteen days in the hospital.
The case quickly became a homicide investigation. The circumstances suggested a brutal attack inside Samantha's own home, but police released few details about a motive, possible entry into the apartment, or what evidence may have been recovered. The leak that drew her mother upstairs became part of the tragic chain of events that led to Samantha being found, turning an ordinary workday morning into the moment her family discovered she had been violently attacked.
In the weeks after Samantha's death, Wilmington police also investigated the fatal stabbing of another woman, Janeal Jones, who was found dead in August 2013. Because both victims were women and both cases involved stabbing deaths in Wilmington within a short span of time, police asked the FBI to review the cases for any possible similarities. Authorities publicly stated that female stabbing victims were unusual enough to warrant closer review, but no confirmed link between the two killings was announced.
No arrests have been publicly reported in Samantha Neuwein's murder. Publicly available reports indicate that police had no named suspect, made no arrests, and continued to treat the case as unsolved. Years later, the Wilmington Police Department's Cold Case Unit continued asking for help from the public, seeking anyone who might know what happened inside Samantha's apartment or who was responsible for the attack that ultimately took her life.
