A local Connecticut news anchor has revealed that her 73-year-old mother was murdered in February and did not die of natural causes as originally reported.

Claudia Voight, 73, was found dead in her Vermont home on February 20, WCAX reported. State troopers told the station that hadn’t released the information previously to avoid jeopardizing their investigation. Still, however, they provided few details.

Heidi Voight, the morning news anchor for NBC Connecticut (WVIT), revealed on her social media accounts that she’d been holding “a painful secret” about her mother’s death since an autopsy revealed in April that she had been strangled.

“My mother’s death was not natural, nor peaceful,” she wrote. “My mother was murdered, violently, in the place she should have felt safest – her own home in Windham, Vermont.

“Claudia Voight was stolen from this world. She was stolen from her family, from her children, and from my precious daughters who now ask me almost every day, ‘Why did Grandma go to Heaven?'”

Vermont State Police Spokesperson Adam Silverman told WCAX that the attack on the elder Voight wasn’t random but declined to say what led them to that conclusion.

He did say that Claudia Voight’s death did not appear suspicious at first, and it was only after the medical examiner detected injuries caused by strangulation that investigators knew they were dealing with a murder.

Silverman declined to say if investigators have identified a suspect.

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[Featured image: Claudia Voight/Facebook]