Police: Remains in Goshen are missing woman

GOSHEN - The body found Tuesday in Goshen has been identified as a missing 25-year-old Connecticut woman, and her death is a homicide, the Vermont State Police said Thursday afternoon.

Denise Hart was last seen leaving a friend’s home in Sudbury in a borrowed car on the evening of Jan. 25. Police have said they suspect foul play in her disappearance.

Hart's identity was confirmed Thursday by the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner's Office, according to police.

"Evidence was located and collected at the scene and the death of Denise Hart has been ruled a homicide," Capt. J.P. Sinclair said in a statement.

The skeletal remains were found by a person out for a walk at about 1 p.m. Tuesday near Vermont 73, or Gap Road, Sinclair said, and called the state police.

"We sent detectives and troopers out there and confirmed that it does appear we have human skeletal remains," Sinclair said Wednesday, the day the discovery of the remains was announced. "The scene was locked down last night and guarded by troopers through the night. Our crime scene search team is headed out there today to do recovery and documentation of everything we have out there."

Sinclair's statement Thursday was silent on the cause of Hart's death. Police said no further information would be made available.