Dinner, then a bloody end for Bryn Mawr native

DOMENIC Angeline Sr. last saw the youngest of his three children, Valerie Marie Angeline, on Friday night for his 59th birthday dinner at the Red Lobster on Baltimore Pike in Springfield.

After the family returned to their Bryn Mawr home, Valerie drove back to her West Philly apartment at about 9:30 p.m., he said.

Within the next 24 hours, she would be dead - with multiple stab wounds to her chest and neck.

"She was a beautiful girl," her father said Sunday. "She didn't have any enemies."

He said that Valerie, 31, who graduated from Radnor High School, moved to West Philly in October from the family's Bryn Mawr home.

Homicide Sgt. Tim Cooney said Sunday night that police had no suspects, but, given the type of wounds that she received, police are looking into her "past relationships and people she had romantic encounters with."

There was no sign of forced entry in her first-floor apartment, on 64th Street near Vine.

Angeline was found by a friend, who called 9-1-1 about 8:20 p.m. Saturday. He found her lying bloody and lifeless in a hallway, Cooney said. Medics pronounced her dead at 8:23 p.m.

Cooney said that a spent cartridge casing was found near her apartment door, but it was not clear if she was shot. Cops are awaiting a medical examiner's report.

Her father said that Valerie loved going into the city, and had worked various waitressing jobs. She was familiar with the West Philly area because he had owned an auto-repair shop on 64th Street, a block from where she lived. He closed it about five years ago because of crime, he said.

The father said that he found out about his daughter's death when he was watching NBC 10 Saturday night.

The TV station said that an unidentified 31-year-old woman was killed, and showed the front of her apartment.

"I said, 'Oh my God, oh my God!' " he recalled. "I was sick. I said, 'I don't believe this.' "