A grieving family have been left reeling by the loss of a “wonderful, strong, tough mom” who was killed in what they suspect was a murder-suicide. Jennifer Lingard's two young sons left alone in the house with their mother’s body for a day after the murder earlier this year.
The 40-year-old, was found beaten and strangled to death in a locked bedroom at the family’s holiday home in February 2022. However the cause of death was only publicly confirmed as a homicide by police last month.
The man she was dating at the time, Sami-Joe Michael Daou, 33, who had gone with her and the little boys to the lakeside retreat, was found a day later at his home. He was dead from a drugs overdose, having driven over 300 miles in Jennifer’s car to get there.
