BURLINGTON — A man who lives in the house where a 26-year-old Massachusetts woman was found dead last month was arrested in November after a person he met online told police he hit and threatened to kill her, according to the warrant for his arrest.
Cole Werhan was taking pills and drinking a large amount of alcohol when the woman first met him at his house on Claire Hill Road, kept her from leaving and threatened to kill himself, the woman told police, the warrant said.
It remains unclear whether the woman in the complaint is the same person found dead at the house March 29. Since she is a victim of an alleged crime, the woman’s name does not appear in the warrant — which is labeled “family violence.” There is no distinction between family violence and intimate partner violence under state law…