The Madison Police Department is now considering the city’s first homicide of 2013 a “domestic related murder-suicide” after finding the victim’s estranged husband dead in his home, according to a police report.
MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement police found 31-year-old Jennifer Boyce deceased inside her Milwaukee Street apartment, which showed “signs of a forced entry,” at approximately 10:35 a.m. Thursday.
After finding Boyce, police obtained a search warrant for her estranged, 34-year-old husband’s Atwood Avenue apartment where they found him dead from an “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” DeSpain said.
Court records show the couple was scheduled for a divorce hearing the morning of the incidents, according to the statement.
The Dane County Medical Examiner’s office released autopsy results Friday stating Boyce sustained injuries from an “edged weapon,” which resulted in her death.
The MPD and the Medical Examiner’s office are continuing the investigation, according to DeSpain and the Office of the Dane County Medical Examiner.
