A Connecticut man accused of murdering his girlfriend months after she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase had a separate pending domestic violence case in which another woman told police he strangled, threatened and assaulted her after meeting her on a dating app, court records show.Cole Theodore Werhan, 28, of Burlington, Connecticut, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder in connection with the death of 26-year-old Janina Brooke Murphy, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, according to Connecticut State Police.Murphy, who went by Brooke, was found in March at the bottom of a staircase inside the Burlington home where she had been living.State police described the death as suspicious at the time.Cole Theodore Werhan, 28, of Burlington, Connecticut, is accused of killing 26-year-old Janina Brooke Murphy after authorities said her death from a head injury was ruled a homicide.
(Connecticut State Police)This week, the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined Murphy died from blunt force injury of the head and ruled her death a homicide.HUSBAND OF NURSE, MOM OF THREE FOUND DEAD AT BOTTOM OF STAIRCASE WENT FOR BEER AFTER FINDING BODY: POLICE"Another detective got on the phone.He said, 'I want you to know something.
Your daughter didn't just fall down the stairs.She had wounds all over her,'" Murphy’s mother, Beth Murphy, told WBZ-TV.Beth Murphy said her daughter and Werhan were dating, and that the homicide ruling confirmed what her family had feared."It's confirmed, it wasn't an accident.
So that part, really, that's tough," she told WBZ-TV.EX-BIDEN STAFFER CLAIMS ACCIDENTAL SHOT KILLED GIRLFRIEND AS DAD BLASTS TOXIC, ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP: REPORTJanina Brooke Murphy, 26, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, was remembered by her mother as a kind, artistic woman with "a heart of gold" after authorities ruled her death a homicide.(Cartmell-Davis Funeral Home)Court records reviewed by Fox News Digital show Werhan was already facing pending domestic vio...