During the 2013 trial, prosecutors said Heath killed his 30-year-old wife because he was planning to divorce her and feared losing custody of their daughter and the home he had owned since 1973. A key piece of evidence was a recorded interview in which Heath made denigrating comments to police about his wife. Heath lived in Bridgewater before his conviction, running a commercial painting business. Gough-Heath’s sister, Helen Gough, told the News-Times in a 2010 interview that she often had Christmas dinners with Heath and her niece at his Newtown home — not knowing that her sister was buried just yards away.