stefan kim is at police headquarters tonight with the latest. stefan. >> reporter: liz, police right now are not saying a whole lot when it comes to this investigation. what they are saying, there were no signs of forced entry and this does not >> we're going to explore every possibility that this person responsible may have been granted entry into the house, this person may have had a key or known to the victim. >> with no signs of forced entry it's unlikely this was a random attack. 48-year-old susan goldthar found dead in her home. she was bound and found lying in her bed in her bedroom. the medical examiner determined the cause of death is affixuation. >> no history of calls at the house, no current burglary or robbery problem in that area of merrick. >> police say goldthar was living in the detached cottage nanny. cops say the last time her father spoke to her was her parents invited her out for dinner and she declined and the following day her far went to employees at the deli across the street said she was pleasant, nothing about her would

stefan kim is at the scene with more on the investigation. stefan. >> reporter: take a look at this home behind me on smith street. nassau county police have taped off that home and police officers are still here on the scene. moments ago additional plain-clothed detectives arrived on the scene. the woman who lives in the back of the house was found dead at 6:30 and found gagged and bed. the man who lives in the front is home but doesn't wish to speak with us. police are not saying how old she was. deli workers across the street say she was a pleasant single middle-aged woman, nothing would indicate she would find herself in this type of situation. >> unfortunately bad things going on all over. probably she ran into a old boyfriend or something like that that didn't work out. that doesn't really happen around here, these murders. >> did you ever see the woman, say hello? >> she was a customer, a very nice lady. we knew her well. a nice lady. >> reporter: now police discovered her body after a 911 call last night. it's unclear who discovered he

. >> stefan kim is in nassau county with the details. stefan. >> reporter: nassau county detectives do not believe this was a random attack. there were no signs of forced entry where she was found bound. now, she was discovered by her father lying in her own bed in her last night. the medical examiner has determined her cause of death is asphyxiation. police would not detail what if anything was found around her neck. cops say she was living in this rear cottage for 5 years and worked as a nanny. at this point investigators do not robbery. >> we're going to explore every possibility that this person responsible may have been granted entry into the house and may have had a key and possibly this person is known to our victim. >> reporter: now, police say the last time her father spoke to her was around 8:00 p.m. on tuesday night. her parents invited her out for dinner and she declined. the following day her father went to check up on her and made that gruesome discovery. stefan kim, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> thank you. >>> workers at t

stefan kim, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> a long island man lured a woman into his car and raped her. adil raja will be arraigned tomorrow. it was 4:00 in the morning that he posed as a taxi driver and offered the victim a ride. he then pulled out a bb-gun, took her to another location and raped her in the back seat. >>> the police in new jersey continue their search for the gunman responsible for a deadly afternoon. investigators say the driver of a car with two other men inside opened fire on evona avenue in plainfield. they rushed 24-year-old anthony bowles to the hospital where he died. a 6-year-old girl and 33-year-old woman were hit by recover. >>> final farewells today to the young girl and her father killed while trick-or-treating in the bronx. funeral services were held in the westchester square section for nyanna akweel and louis per res. a driver lost control of his car and crashed into a group of saturday. the other victim, 24-year-old wednesday. the deadly crash of a russian plane confirmed tonight that an unknown noise is heard on the black box recorder just before the