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Ryan M. Schannauer, 19, of Wyomissing, left, and Adam M. Lynch, 21, of Reading, are charged with criminal homicide after police said they stabbed 23-year-old Ashley Kline, doused her body with gasoline and set her on fire. Kline's body was found in a Lancaster County wildlife preserve. Police said she was burned while she was still alive. (Lancaster County Prison)

Two men who are accused of stabbing a Berks County woman and setting her on fire did so while she was still alive, Lancaster County District Attorney Craig W. Stedman said at a news conference Thursday.

Adam M. Lynch, 21, and Ryan M. Schannauer, 19, also returned a second time to the wildlife preserve where they left Ashley Kline's body in an attempt to again burn her remains, Stedman said, according to a report from Lancaster Online.

Lynch and Schannauer are charged with criminal homicide, arson, abuse of a corpse and other charges. They are being held without bail in Lancaster County Prison.

Police said both suspects have varying versions of the events that occurred the night of Dec. 30 after they picked up Kline, 23, at her Robesonia home.

State police Capt. Dante Orlandi told reporters that indications are that Kline fought as she was forced into the woods at a wildlife preserve, according to the Lancaster Online report. Police said earlier that she was doused with gasoline and then set on fire.

There are varying accounts on whether Kline was sexually assaulted before she was stabbed and set on fire, Stedman said, according to the report. Authorities did not offer another motive for the killing.

All indications are that Kline willingly got into a car with Lynch and Schannauer before she was killed. Stedman also reportedly said that Schannauer and Kline knew each other for some time prior to the night she died. He said Lynch did not know her well.

East Cocalico police found some of Kline’s possessions on Jan. 2 in a purse that was recovered at the Bollman Hat Co. in Adamstown.

Kline's body was found Sunday

at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area