 Heath pleads not guilty in wife's death John Heath: Charged in 1984 murder of his estranged wife, Elizabeth, whose remains were found in Newtown barn in 2010 
 
 John Heath's mug shot. More Information About John Heath Age: 68 Town: Bridgewater Charge: Murder of wife Elizabeth, in Newtown, on or about April 1, 1984 Bond: $1 million 
 
 State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky said the arrest warrant was issued after authorities were tipped about a moving truck outside Heath's rented home in Bridgewater over the weekend. Heath, his wife, Raquel, and their two children moved there after losing the Newtown property to foreclosure in 2005, triggering the sequence of events that led to the discovery of Elizabeth Heath's body in April 2010. Heath, whose daughter lives in Puerto Rico, according to the News-Times, was ordered to hand in his passport. John Heath obtained the divorce in August 1984 and he married his current wife, who had been a friend of Elizabeth's and a babysitter for their daughter, the following June. During the renovation, a relative asked him about what was under a concrete lid in the barn and he said it was an old septic tank and to leave it alone. An autopsy determined that Elizabeth Heath died of multiple blows to the head. Her left arm was broken, which authorities said was consistent with a defensive wound, and there was a traumatic amputation of her maxilla.
– A Connecticut man has pleaded not guilty after being charged in his wife's murder of nearly three decades ago. The remains of Elizabeth Heath were discovered two years ago in a well below a barn that once belonged to her husband. John Heath, 68, who used an oxygen tank in court, reported his wife missing in 1984, days after filing for divorce. He told friends and family she had left him and their daughter with no explanation while he was asleep, the Danbury News Times reports. But her dogs and most of her things—including her car—remained. Her body was discovered by a father and son who were renovating the barn in 2010, after John Heath lost it in a 2005 foreclosure. The body's left arm was broken; when police told Heath the bone had been smashed, he reportedly said, "Smashed like a..." and waved his arms up and down without finishing his sentence, NBC Connecticut reports. Heath was traumatized by his experience fighting in Vietnam, according to friends, who said he had a temper.