Love My Froggy | radioNovo News for Stroudsburg: May 1, 2026

RNN STROUDSBURG 05/01/26          WHAT STARTED AS A DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE CALL LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON SMITH ROAD IN HAMILTON TOWNSHIP IS NOW BEING CLASSIFIED A MURDER-SUICIDE.  RESPONDING STATE POLICE TROOPERS COULD NOT REACH ANYONE INSIDE THE HOME. AFTER OBTAINING A SEARCH WARRANT, INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED A MAN AND WOMAN DECEASED. AUTHORITIES SAY THE MALE SUSPECT SHOT THE FEMALE VICTIM BEFORE TURNING THE GUN ON HIMSELF. NAMES OF THE DECEASED HAVE NOT YET BEEN RELEASED AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.                    A MONROE COUNTY JUDGE HAS MOVED A HIGH-PROFILE HOMICIDE CASE TOWARD TRIAL FOLLOWING A PACKED PRELIMINARY HEARING ON WEDNESDAY. 43-YEAR-OLD JACOB NAUMAN IS ACCUSED OF STRANGLING HIS GIRLFRIEND, BRITTANY BURGIN IN DECEMBER 2023 AND ATTEMPTING TO STAGE THE SCENE AS A SUICIDE.           WHILE A FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST TESTIFIED THAT BURGIN'S INJURIES WERE CONSISTENT WITH STRANGULATION, NAUMAN’S DEFENSE ATTORNEY ARGUED THE DEATH WAS A TRAGIC SUICIDE FUELED BY INTOXICATION AND DEPRESSION. THE JUDGE DROPPED A CHARGE OF EVIDENCE TAMPERING, BUT NAUMAN STILL FACES COUNTS OF HOMICIDE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, AND STRANGULATION AS THE CASE HEADS TO A JURY.