Victim's Estranged Husband Charged in Bucks Double Murders

At a press conference at the Pennsylvania State Police barracks at Dublin Friday afternoon, state police and the Bucks County District Attorney's office announced the filing of first-degree murder charges against Lloyd Hill, 41, of Quakertown.

Police said Hill is

Hill and Tarantino were killed at the Schoolhouse Apartments at 8786 Easton Road (Route 611) in Nockamixon Township, where they had been residing.

Police Lt. Vincent K. D'Angelo of the PSP was the spokesman at the press conference, and Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler responded to questions from the press.

Police said Tarantino was attacked first--outside the apartments--where he was allegedly beaten to death by Lloyd Hill with an aluminum baseball bat.

Hill then allegedly went inside his ex-wife's apartment and attacked her with a knife before emerging and telling a female teenage witness who was in the apartment at the time, "I killed Fred."

Stephanie Hill later died from her injuries at St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill, while Tarantino was pronounced dead at the scene.

The motive for the killings remains unclear, but police said that Lloyd Hill was sending threatening text messages to the murdered couple as of a week ago.

Police said the Hills first met Frederick Tarantino and his wife at church.

The Tarantinos later divorced, and Frederick Tarantino's ex-wife has been living with Lloyd Hill, authorities indicated.

The Hills, although estranged, were still married.

Police said that about a mile north of Palisades Middle School, a baseball bat and a knife were in his possession.

In a bedroom at the apartment, according to the affidavit for Hill's arrest, they found a broken knife with skin, hair and blood on it.

The murders, and the subsequent manhunt for Hill, prompted a brief lockdown of Palisades schools Friday.