A New Jersey mother was found murdered inside her home Monday — the same day her husband killed himself by jumping off a bridge in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.
The body of Kenneth Bartone was discovered floating in the Raritan River and his car was found parked on the Thomas Edison Memorial Bridge around 7 a.m, the Asbury Park Press reported.
His wife, Denise Bartone, 48, was slain earlier in the couple’s home in Freehold, while their three daughters were inside, The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said.
The girls weren’t harmed and are staying with family members.
Authorities are investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide but are still looking into how they are linked, Christopher Swendeman, a spokesman for the prosecution’s office, told the newspaper. There was no suicide note, Swendeman said.
Denise Bartone was the former chairwoman of the Freehold Township Education Foundation, which raises money for district teachers. She worked as a marketing specialist at Rutgers University.
Her Facebook is full of family portraits, selfies of the couple and pictures from a cruise to the Bahamas last summer.



