‘Her kids were her world’

An investigation continues into the deaths of a township man and woman in an apparent explosion at a Tranquility Court home on May 11.

Law-enforcement agencies have not yet released the identities of the two people, pending official confirmation, but a GoFundMe page identified the female victim as Michelle Whiting, a mother of three. The deaths were ruled a murder-suicide, Tom Gilbert, chief of detectives of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office (GCPO), said on May 13.

Two days earlier, a Sunday, police and fire departments responded at approximately 2:03 a.m. to multiple reports of a house fire and loud explosion at 13 Tranquility Court in Sewell, according to a press release from the prosecutor’s office. The home was in a cul de sac in the area of Tranquility Court and Orion Way, police said…

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