Jill Widmer was found dead in her Mason home on Monday and preliminary autopsy results show heart and liver disease but, until toxicology tests come back, coroner’s investigator Doyle Burke said investigators won’t know for sure how she died. He said he doesn’t think she committed suicide but nothing can be ruled out until the tests come back, probably in about six weeks.
“It’s going to be some natural process, there is no foul play,” he said. “She was on a lot of medication. She could have mixed up her medication for all we know.”
Her son has gone through three murder trials in Warren County over the drowning death of his bride, Sarah, in 2008. Widmer could not even attend the third trial in 2011 because, as her sister said, “This has ruined her.”
Godsey said the prison chaplain in Orient informed him of his mother’s death Monday.
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