(Photo via) 91-year old Viola Drath was murdered this week in her home in Georgetown, and papers are pointing the finger at her husband Albrecht Muth, 44-years her junior and gay.

Why anyone would want to kill a sweet 91-year old woman is beyond us. German-born Drath was a correspondent for German newspaper Handelsblatt, had a column in the Washington Times, authored several books and was a member of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy

If convicted, Muth will join a long list of social--not political--scandals that have shaken Georgetown in the last few decades.

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