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Tonya Papanikolas Reporting Firefighters are now calling a fire in Ogden more than suspicious; it's looking like murder.
Police still aren't releasing the victim's name, but relatives told KSL it was their aunt who lived in the duplex. Firefighters found her body when they arrived on the scene early Sunday morning. Her body was taken to a medical examiner's office. Today, the autopsy results show the woman didn't die in the fire. Rather she died before the fire started, when someone hit her in the neck and head with a very sharp object.
Ogden police say there was a group of four to seven people in the home before the fire started. Most of them didn't live there, they were just visiting. Police say, at some point in the night, they got into a fight.
Police haven't released a motive, but they're trying to find and question everyone who was there.
Sgt. Kyle Bosgieter, Ogden City Police: "We're looking for five or six people that were at the home that evening shortly before the fire."
Police say they have talked to a couple people were there, they're just looking for the remaining group. They want to know what those people's involvement was, and police are defining them as suspects.
Shortly before they noticed the fire, neighbors say they saw a white car leaving the home. They then started hearing glass shatter as windows broke and flames spread, especially in the back of the house.
Police today confirmed that they have responded to incidents at the house before. Neighbors say it was a known drug house with people always going in and out. Neighbors had filed numerous complaints about the house before.
