Huffington blogger kills ex-lover and self

A popular contributor to the Huffington Post, the website run by millionaire socialite Arianna Huffington, has become the news herself. Last Friday, Carol Anne Burger, who blogged for the Post's OffTheBus US election campaign section, took her own life – two days after she apparently stabbed her former female lover, Jessica Kalish, 222 times with a Phillips screwdriver at the home they shared in Boynton Beach, Florida.

A tribute on the Huffington Post reads: "The Huffington Post's OffTheBus is deeply saddened to report that one of our writers, Carol Anne Burger, died on Friday, October 24. The circumstances of her death remain unclear; police believe she may have taken her own life after learning that her roommate - and former partner - had been found dead."

However, according to the local newspaper, the Palm Beach Post, the police are now certain that Burger murdered Kalish. Reports the paper: "As investigators studied the case, several telltale signs, including the ferocity and personal nature of the attack, pointed to Burger, but before they could question her, Burger walked out into her back yard, pressed a gun up under her chin and pulled the trigger." ·