A Hazel Green woman, whose body was discovered earlier this month in her home only hours before her husband killed their two sons and shot himself in Tennessee, died of blunt force trauma.

Madison County Sheriff’s spokesman Brent Patterson confirmed the results of an autopsy on Jennifer LePore, 43.

Patterson said he could not say how long her body had been in their home on Chelle Mill Lane.

LePore, who had worked as a special education aide at Hazel Green Elementary School since August 2022, had not been seen at school since the Thanksgiving break, he said.

“How long she was there, I can’t really say at this point,” Patterson said.

Madison County Sheriff’s deputies conducting a welfare check on Jan. 18 at about 11:15 p.m. found LePore’s body inside the residence.

Her husband, Jamie LePore, 46, and their two children were later linked to a home in the 2400 block of Cason Lane in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Officers from that city’s police arrived at the home the following morning.

Police learned Jamie LePore and the children had been staying at the home with friends. While officers spoke with the renters of the property in the front yard, they were told LePore and the children were asleep inside. Then officers heard gunshots.

They entered to find the bodies of Jamie LePore, and the couple’s two children, Jesse, 9, and Sean, 11. The father apparently killed the two boys and then himself, police said.