Hamden police have identified the 45-year-old woman killed in a fatal house fire early Saturday morning and said her death is being investigated as a homicide.
A death of a 45-year-old woman found in a burning home on Lilac Avenue in Hamden in December has been ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office.
Jennifer Antonier's body was found inside her burning home early on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 26. The cause of her death is incised wounds of the neck and upper left extremity with blunt injury of upper left extremity, according to the medical examiner's office.
In December, Hamden Police Chief Thomas Wydra said a suspicious car fire in New Haven, near the East Haven line, is connected to the investigation.
“The car that was found burned in New Haven was registered to the victim from the incident that occurred on Lilac Avenue in Hamden,” he said.
