Family and friends have identified Michelle Whiting, a beloved mother of three, as the woman killed in a tragic murder-suicide that ended in a fiery explosion in Washington Township, Gloucester County, over the weekend.
Authorities discovered the bodies of a man and a woman early Sunday morning after a house on Tranquility Court was leveled by a fire sparked by a gas explosion. According to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office, the case has been ruled a murder-suicide: Whiting was fatally shot in a bedroom before the home was set on fire, while the man—identified by friends as her ex-boyfriend—died by suicide from the resulting blaze.
Investigators found that the home’s gas line had been tampered with, and an accelerant was detected, pointing to an intentionally set fire. A handgun was discovered near the man’s body in the living room. He had not been shot…