Search warrant: Elderly woman found dead in her home with 12 apparent stab wounds

Law enforcement is investigating after a 70-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her Coon Rapids home this week.

According to a search warrant, police received a call from a realtor on Tuesday, who reported she was at a home on the 900 block of 88th Avenue for a roof inspection when she saw a woman inside, identified as 70-year-old Katherine Paula Knauer, slumped over her mobility scooter and apparently bleeding.

The realtor told police several doors to the house were “unsecured,” the search warrant says.

Court records go on to say when police entered the home, they found Knauer in the kitchen with 12 apparent chest stab wounds, including three to the heart.

The realtor told police Knauer lived alone in the home, and they had been texting the night before.

Investigators learned from neighbors that Knauer had been saving money to hire someone to rake the leaves in her yard, the search...