BOSTON – "I hope she was not miserable toward the end of things," said Jennifer Payne, a close friend and former roommate of slain New Jersey therapist Brooke Hanlon.
Payne told Fox News Digital she's known Hanlon since 2013. The two became very close friends while attending graduate school together at Northeastern University. They also were roommates for a few years in Boston.
Hanlon, a 35-year-old who had a baby last year, was found fatally stabbed inside her Chester, New Jersey home on June 6.
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Payne learned about the death of her longtime friend when a news outlet called her weeks after investigators made their discovery.
Authorities have not yet named a possible suspect or person of interest in the ongoing homicide investigation.