Newtown woman died of head injury

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - The Connecticut medical examiner's office has determined that a traumatic head injury caused the death of a woman whose remains were found under a basement floor in Newtown 26 years after she went missing.

The medical examiner's office also told The News-Times of Danbury that Elizabeth Heath's death was a homicide, which police had suspected. No one has been charged in her death.

Heath's husband, John Heath, reported her missing in April 1984 as the couple were going through a divorce. She was in her 30s, and the couple had a young daughter. A contractor working on a converted barn on the Heaths' former property in Newtown found Elizabeth Heath's remains last April.

John Heath didn't immediately return a phone message left at his Bridgewater home Thursday morning.

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Information from: The News-Times